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Abortion marketing and lies

David Kupelian tells how the abortion industry sold itself. (Hat tip: Dawn Eden)

It's ironic that pro-abortion anti-gun liberals rant and rave about the gun industry making millions of dollars for a killing industry and completely ignore that the abortion industry does the same. It's also ironic that the right to bear arms is explicitly stated in the Second Amendment, and treated as non-existent by gun control groups and the ACLU ("Our job is to conserve America's original civic values - the Constitution and the Bill of Rights" - except Amendment #2-Ed.), while many (but not all) of the same groups, including the ACLU, insist that abortion is a rock solid basic human right, and a non-revokable constitutional right at that, due to stare decisis. As if a decision by the Supreme Court could not ever be overturned. If that were true, we'd still have slavery, segregated education, and sodomy being illegal which were all established by previous Supreme Court decisions, all of which were literally overturned by later decisions, and without any complaints from the same people who insist that Roe vs. Wade is untouchable.

Also, in a related column, Chuck Colson exposes some abortion myths, the first of which is that abortion is first and foremost a woman’s issue, or one has to be pro-abortion in order to respect womens' rights. Susan B. Anthony was a pro-life feminist, and there are others today, along with pro-life Democrats and pro-life libertarians. In fact, since libertarians respect individual rights for all people, it isn't a question of whether pro-abortion is a libertarian / or non-libertarian position. It all boils down to answering the question, "Is the unborn child a human being in possession of unalienable rights, the same as which I have?" If an honest libertarian answers that question affirmatively, they will be pro-life.

Posted by Joel Fuhrmann at January 20, 2005 10:12 PM