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In response to Robert Lewis Dear\u2019s killing spree at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, pro-abortion columnist Jill Filipovic resurrected one of abortion supporters\u2019 most insidious (and that\u2019s saying something!) refrains in asking<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If you actually believe abortion is legal mass murder on par with the Holocaust, then how is it 100% wrong to kill abortion providers? Answer: most prolifers don’t even believe their own claims and don’t think abortion is quite the same as murder. Because it’s not.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This pops up every now and then among abortion defenders trying to trip up pro-lifers on our own principles. Slate\u2019s<\/em> Will Saletan accused<\/a> pro-lifers who condemned the slaying of George Tiller of not \u201cmean[ing] it literally\u201d when we call abortion murder. Evangelical pastor-turned-humanist\/atheist Bruce Gerencser asks<\/a> \u201cthose who say abortion is murder\u201d if \u201cyou support the execution of murderers.\u201d Jason Brennan of the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog thinks<\/a> it\u2019s \u201cimplausible\u201d and \u201cabsurd\u201d for people who equate abortion with murder to confine themselves to stopping it through legal and peaceful means. California law blogger Mike Cernovich argues<\/a> that peaceful pro-lifers are suffering cognitive dissonance, basing our beliefs \u201con psychological comfort rather than intellectual rigor.\u201d We see it on a fairly regular basis in comment threads.<\/p>\n

The truth is that this isn\u2019t a sincere argument. They know they can\u2019t win a fair argument on whether the unborn are human<\/a> or abortion is killing<\/a>, so they hope to indirectly discredit the truth by conjuring up inane reasons to claim we don\u2019t believe it. So now would be a good time for a refresher course on the just use of force in a free society.<\/p>\n

The first principle is that generally speaking<\/em>, yes, lethal force is legitimate if used to defend yourself or someone else against violence. If somebody is coming at you or another defenseless person in the vicinity with a knife, most people agree that you would be justified in shooting him.<\/p>\n

Case closed!<\/em> Pro-aborts would say. You say abortion kills babies, so why wouldn\u2019t you shoot an abortionist to stop him from killing again?<\/em> This brings us to the second principle: we are a nation of laws. As we discussed back in 2011<\/a> when I tackled this question the first time, the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution were founded largely on the Lockean social compact theory of government<\/a>. The social compact theory says that nature bestows upon everyone the right to punish transgressions against ourselves, but by agreeing to live in civil society, we trade our power to do so unilaterally for doing it collectively through representative institutions such as police forces and courts.<\/p>\n

The advantage of submitting all such grievances to recognized authorities who are supposed to be impartial\u2014and binding ourselves to either accept their outcome or only appeal it through a lawful process\u2014is that, as John Locke writes<\/a>, without government \u201cit is unreasonable for men to be judges in their own cases\u201d because \u201cselflove will make men partial to themselves and their friends,\u201d \u201cill nature, passion and revenge will carry them too far in punishing others,\u201d and \u201che who was so unjust as to do his brother an injury, will scarce be so just as to condemn himself for it,\u201d which means \u201cnothing but confusion and disorder will follow.\u201d<\/p>\n

In debating this challenge over the years, one of the most depressing things to encounter is how casually pro-aborts dismiss the rule of law as a legitimate factor for pro-lifers to consider. Usually they\u2019ll flippantly reply that we\u2019re just hiding behind the law because we\u2019re too cowardly to get our hands dirty. Really<\/em>? Do you guys really want to add the downsides of anarchy<\/em> to the list of concepts you don\u2019t understand?<\/p>\n

\"AbrahamIt\u2019s doubly depressing when one considers that we have a well-known historical precedent that\u2019s already weighed in on this question rather decisively. Abraham Lincoln passionately opposed slavery and today we revere him as the Great Emancipator for his key role in ending it. Yet he also advocated an incremental strategy against it<\/a> for much of his career and steadfastly opposed illegal means of fighting it<\/a>, including his condemnation<\/a> of abolitionist John Brown\u2019s armed insurrection against slavery:<\/p>\n

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Old John Brown has just been executed for treason against a state. We cannot object, even though he agreed with us in thinking slavery wrong. That cannot excuse violence, bloodshed, and treason. It could avail him nothing that he might think himself right.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So we have two possibilities: either pro-aborts don\u2019t know their history, or they think Lincoln was a wuss and\/or faker. Good luck with that.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, though, this isn\u2019t to say violent lawbreaking to save lives is never<\/em> justified. But our third principle settles that question, too. Illegal killing for a greater good is only permissible when the law\u2019s role as an impartial arbiter of justice has broken down so fully that peaceful channels of recourse are closed off to us.<\/p>\n

Note that I didn\u2019t say \u201cdifficult\u201d or \u201cfailed,\u201d i.e., we have trouble persuading people to change the law or an election didn\u2019t go our way\u2014I said closed off<\/em>. Meaning there are no<\/em> free and open elections through which we can change the law, no free speech, press, or assembly rights through which we can appeal to the electorate, etc. King George III denied the American colonies<\/a> democratic representation and dissolved colonial legislatures. Nazi Germany was a police state<\/a> without true elections<\/a> or the basic freedom to dissent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These weren\u2019t the circumstances abolitionists found themselves in, and aren\u2019t the circumstances American pro-lifers find ourselves in today. Despite a variety of political and cultural obstacles, the American people are open to our arguments<\/a>, and everything we need to do to criminalize abortion<\/a> is possible through the legal process.<\/p>\n

But you say you believe babies are dying now<\/strong><\/em>, the pro-abort replies, so how can you justify waiting?<\/em> Again, just go back to history. We declared independence<\/a> in 1776, but didn\u2019t abolish slavery<\/a> until 1865. Eighty-nine years is more than twice the time it\u2019s been since Roe v. Wade<\/a> made abortion-on-demand the law of the land. If you really think pro-lifers advocating peaceful resistance to abortion makes us phonies, then you also have to say that every abolitionist less extreme than John Brown was a phony, too. And we all know that\u2019s nonsense.<\/p>\n

Lastly, let\u2019s give pro-aborts a taste of their own medicine. Few of them, I think it\u2019s safe to say, would be willing to go out and kill someone they believe is guilty of a violent crime but escaped prosecution on a technicality, on the grounds that they\u2019d be saving his future victims. And most of them opposed the war in Iraq despite the millions of people Saddam Hussein had killed, raped, and tortured.<\/p>\n

According to same logic with which they assail pro-lifers, that must make them hypocrites, cowards, or frauds, right? Nope. Fortunately for them, real logic tells us this simply means they recognize more factors in play than the perpetration of violence.<\/p>\n

But unfortunately for them, it also means they don\u2019t have a leg to stand on in this assault on pro-lifers\u2019 sincerity. Which brings us back to the central, uncomfortable truth they need to confront: there are no shortcuts to winning an argument if you can’t refute pro-lifers in a fair fight. If the merits don’t vindicate your position, then it’s well past time to abandon it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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