Culture of Violence

Have some American citizens lost all sense of perspective and logic? With Big Media as willing accomplices, the move is on to use the death of George Tiller as a means to silence pro-life individuals and organizations. The connection being made is that pro-life rhetoric is as responsible as the alleged murderer for Mr. Tiller’s death. Such connections completely fail several tests of logic and common sense. Consider, for example, if Mr. Tiller had been a child molester. Would his death be a reason to call for the silencing of all who continue to oppose child molestation? Proceeding on the basis that readers of this blog are an intelligent group, I will answer for us: of course that would not be a reason for opposition to child molestation to cease. We would continue to seek to defend and protect the most vulnerable among us. In fact, I have heard and read comments from quite a few who espouse various ideologies of the left describe what they would like to see done to convicted child molesters. Trust me, their descriptions of punitive retribution fall well outside the current boundaries of “cruel and unusual punishment” as defined in today’s legal system. Yet there seems to be no concern that such expressions of opinion contribute to a widening culture of violence.

Pro-abortion individuals and organizations concerned with rooting out sources of cultural violence would do well to look in their own mirror. Their whole reason for being is permeated with acts of tremendous violence against the most innocent and vulnerable in our culture. Their violence toward children in every stage of fetal development, including post-birth, is completely reprehensible. For pre-birth abortions, the fetal child is literally ripped apart. For post-birth abortions, the newborn child is left to die from neglect and dehydration. Such actions clearly fall outside the current boundaries of “cruel and unusual punishment” as defined in today’s legal system, but pro-abortionists demand that this violence done to the most innocent and vulnerable in our culture continue unabated as a legal right for the sake of convenience.

Pro-abortionists want us to believe that they are concerned about eliminating acts of violence in our culture. This is difficult to accept given that they espouse foundational ideologies and actions that have handed our culture the license to treat other human beings without respect, without compassion, and without justice.

(Image: Fetal hand grasp photo. For full story, click here.)