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Abortion Speakout and the Abortion Religion

February 27, 2018/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard

The 1 in 3 Campaign, an abortion lobby group, is holding its annual “Abortion Speakout” today at 3:00 p.m.

There is a lot I could write about this event. I could start by pointing out that the very name is a lie; “1 in 3” is a reference to the thoroughly debunked talking point that one in three women will have an abortion in their lifetime. This was never true, and it certainly isn’t true now that the abortion rate is at its lowest level since Roe v. Wade. (Some pro-choice groups have quietly conceded the point and now claim the correct number is “nearly one in four.”)

I could write about how women have organically come together to share their stories of abortion regret for decades, and how the abortion lobby’s latest efforts to put a happy face on abortion fall flat. I could write about how abortion celebration stories hurt women who have experienced miscarriage and infertility.

But instead, I want to share a single story from the 1 in 3 campaign’s website. The story was submitted by a woman known only as Michele. It is peak Abortion Religion—which we’ve previously defined as “a set of supernatural beliefs which justify abortion on the ground that the victim of an abortion isn’t really dead.” Abortion Religion comes in various flavors, but typically adopts unproven ideas about reincarnation or ensoulment and uses them to rationalize violence against unborn children. (Of course, there is no logical reason why Abortion Religion couldn’t be extended to rationalize infanticide or violence against older children.)

Michele writes (emphasis mine):

It may seem paradoxical, but I had two abortions because of how deeply I care about children. I had my first abortion years ago with my first boyfriend, before I had my daughter, and the second, many years later, with my daughter’s father.

I listened to a heated exchange between two women on the radio, the talk of how “each child is a flower.” This represents a fundamental misunderstanding, of life. First, life does not begin with a mere beating heart, with DNA exchanged between two cells, the inception of procreation. Life is not merely physical. Life is only life when the spiritual component enters into the biology. This is something I learned only as an adult. Yet, this recognition is essential in order to address the issue of abortion. A fetus is a vessel for the soul to enter. It is the human soul that enlivens the body. And there is a world of souls, preparing to enter our physical world. We ourselves in our bodies are the souls here on our Earth, here to learn from and to teach one another, in our various journeys. When does the soul enter the body? Well it depends, but when there is going to be an abortion, I believe a soul does not enter. The world up there is a world of knowing, and they are always trying to help us learn and grow. We ourselves are flowers, down here. We are here not only to bring children into the world, but to grow our own capacity for service to God.

“Life is only life when the spiritual component enters into the biology” echoes Justice Kennedy’s widely mocked proclamation in Planned Parenthood v. Casey that “at the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existing, of meaning, of the universe and of the mystery of life.” This should terrify anyone who cares about basing public policy on objective reality.

Michele is, of course, free to believe whatever she likes, however unfounded and irrational it may be. That’s her First Amendment right. But historically, American courts have held that people do not have the right to impose their dangerous religious beliefs onto their children. This is why an adult Jehovah’s Witness may refuse a life-saving blood transfusion, but a child in the Jehovah’s Witnesses is entitled to receive a blood transfusion in an emergency without regard to parental objections. The same principle applies here. The Abortion Religion imposes death onto children who have no say in the matter. That is intolerable, and will one day be viewed as a barbaric practice rightly condemned to the ash heap of history.

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