{"id":81306,"date":"2015-11-30T16:49:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T21:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=81306"},"modified":"2015-11-30T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T20:25:15","slug":"pro-lifers-should-tone-it-down-carsons-response-to-colorado-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-lifers-should-tone-it-down-carsons-response-to-colorado-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-lifers should &#8220;tone it down&#8221;? Carson&#8217;s response to Colorado shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>It was only a matter of time before Planned Parenthood exploited <a href=\"\/news\/breaking-planned-parenthood-shooter-custody-pro-life-leaders-comment\/\">last week&#8217;s shooting<\/a> at their Colorado Springs clinic.<\/p>\n<p>PP Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/shooting-planned-parenthood-blames-gop-rhetoric-toxic-environment\/story?id=35477055\">released a statement<\/a> calling it \u201coffensive and outrageous that some politicians are now claiming this tragedy has nothing to do with the toxic environment they helped create.\u201d She complained that GOP presidential candidates were \u201cusing this tragedy to repeat false claims about Planned Parenthood,\u201d claimed our \u201chateful rhetoric fuels violence,\u201d and declared, \u201cIt&#8217;s not enough to denounce the tragedy without also denouncing the poisonous rhetoric that fueled it. Instead, some politicians are continuing to stoke it, which is unconscionable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there\u2019s one pro-life Republican candidate who seems to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/11\/29\/ben-carson-calls-planned-parenthood-shooting-a-hate-crime-video\/\">agree with her<\/a>\u2014Ben Carson:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There is a lot of extremism from all areas\u2026 No question, the hateful rhetoric exacerbates the situation\u2026 I think both sides should tone down their rhetoric and engage in civil discussion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Would this be the same Ben Carson who has <a href=\"\/news\/media-attacks-ben-carson-comparing-slavery-abortion\/\">become known for<\/a> comparing abortion to slavery, <a href=\"\/news\/ben-carson-right-planned-parenthood-founders-eugenic-ideals\/\">called attention to<\/a> Planned Parenthood\u2019s racist roots, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2015\/08\/12\/ben-carson-planned-parenthood-clinics-put-in-black-neighborhoods-to-control-that-population\/\">suggested the Nazis were<\/a> fans of Margaret Sanger? When it comes to pro-life rhetoric, nobody\u2019s has been more extreme than Carson himself. So does he take responsibility for his own ostensible role in \u201cexacerbat[ing] the situation\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>He shouldn\u2019t. Carson was absolutely correct about abortion\u2019s similarities to <a href=\"\/news\/unmistakable-parallels-abortion-slavery\/\">slavery<\/a> and the <a href=\"\/news\/the-limits-of-godwins-law\/\">Holocaust<\/a>. All three are acts of mass violence against living human beings, justified by using arbitrary criteria to pretend the victims are subhuman, and saying so is both appropriate and necessary to break through abortion desensitizing and wake people up to just how grave it really is.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably, Carson made all those past statements because he understood all of this, but his latest remarks are another case of him <a href=\"\/news\/carson-clarifies-schiavo-remarks-pro-lifers-still-concerns\/\">saying clumsy, contradictory things<\/a> because he <a href=\"\/news\/ben-carson-want-change-laws-just-minds\/\">didn&#8217;t think things all the way through<\/a> before opening his mouth. How else to explain assigning partial blame for this crime on something he himself routinely does?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, discussing abortion bluntly sparks strong emotions, but that\u2019s only because we\u2019re accurately describing something that <em>is<\/em> inherently outrageous. If abortion really does destroy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abort73.com\/abortion\/medical_testimony\/\">innocent, live babies<\/a>, if those babies <a href=\"\/news\/how-the-media-promotes-junk-science-on-fetal-pain\/\">really can feel pain<\/a> during some abortions, if <a href=\"\/news\/pro-abortion-talking-points-memo-writer-lies-prenatal-abortion-images\/\">images of those babies are real<\/a>, and if Planned Parenthood <a href=\"\/news\/a-guide-to-how-planned-parenthood-is-breaking-the-law\/\">really is committing the crimes<\/a> they\u2019re accused of (<a href=\"\/news\/salon-freaks-pro-lifers-holding-journalists-standards\/\">they are<\/a>), then there\u2019s no honest way to discuss abortion that pro-aborts <em>wouldn\u2019t<\/em> scream was inflammatory. It <em>is<\/em> violence. It <em>is<\/em> killing. It is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/contributions\/abortionists-and-planned-parenthood-shooter-are-just-two-sides-of-the-same-coin\/\">no less murderous than Dear&#8217;s monstrous crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most people understand that honestly discussing atrocities doesn\u2019t make one culpable when some unhinged vigilante snaps. We would never ask people to \u201ctone down\u201d rhetoric about wife beaters or mobs assaulting someone for being black or gay out of fear that someone listening might lose their cool and take it upon themselves to become judge, jury, and executioner.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, it seems that\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/contributions\/abortionists-and-planned-parenthood-shooter-are-just-two-sides-of-the-same-coin\/\">not even what happened here<\/a>\u2014Dear was deeply mentally disturbed, \u201cbaby parts\u201d was just one of the many things he allegedly rambled about, and according to his ex-wife he showed no prior interest in the subject of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, you can\u2019t blame the messenger for telling the truth about evil. Numerous blunt and courageous abortion comments from Ben Carson would have seemed to indicate he understood that. But between this and Carson\u2019s <a href=\"\/news\/carson-calls-terri-schiavo-brother-to-explain-comments-but-declines-meeting\/\">tone-deaf handling<\/a> of his Terri Schiavo remarks, it\u2019s both surprising and lamentable to see someone so needlessly squander pro-lifers\u2019 good will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was only a matter of time before Planned Parenthood exploited last week&#8217;s shooting at their Colorado Springs clinic. PP Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens released a statement calling it \u201coffensive and outrageous that some politicians are now claiming this tragedy has nothing to do with the toxic environment they helped create.\u201d She complained that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":70866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[3581,19,3858,4162,190,6400,1162,131,74,14,615,1254,6403,6423],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pro-lifers should &quot;tone it down&quot;? 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