The Degradation of Human Life Marches On

On the one hand, there’s a degree of internal logic to the pro-choice objection that exercising the right to chose one way carries at least some obligation to that choice (now if we could just get them to apply that logic to babies resulting from voluntary sex…), but ultimately, pro-choicers queasy about in-vitro abortions shouldn’t expect to get very far, because it’s their own anti-scientific, logically untenable determination that preborn life is essentially worthless that keeps abortion objections that rest on lesser grounds from being taken seriously. If that baby is a soulless clump of cells after all, then the worst you can say about in-vitro abortion is that the woman wasted a lot of money on something she didn’t want.

Good luck with that.

Besides, many (perhaps most) pro-choicers don’t make such a distinction. And why should they? There is no substantive moral objection to in-vitro abortion that doesn’t also apply to ordinary abortion. Both degrade human lives into mere objects to be created and discarded whenever it suits more powerful human lives to do so, as if on an assembly line.

A few within their ranks might recognize the nightmarish path we’re embarking upon, but they’re unwilling to admit that the only way to truly change course is to uproot the mentality at its source.

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Hailing from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Calvin Freiburger is a political science major at Hillsdale College.  He also writes for the Hillsdale Forum and his personal website, Calvin Freiburger Online.

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