It’s always super nice when the divinity comes down out of the sky and tells us what to do, especially when we’re trying to think out thorny ethics issues like abortion.
Some folks yell at everybody else saying they are screeching with God’s voice. They want to see us ban late-term abortion.
If you disagree, they will hit you with everything they’ve got. They carry ten-foot placards portraying mutilated fetuses and they scream about how deeply evil it is to kill a newborn baby in the making and that God doesn’t like abortion period, especially a “carefree holiday-excursion” abortion late in pregnancy.
It’s a real holiday to endure the fun of a late-term abortion procedure, something, I’m sure, that you would do on a whim over the long weekend.
And I guess God doesn’t read JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association that talks about the women who seek late-term abortions.
They are the usual suspects on God’s list—the disadvantaged, the poor, women of color, women who have health concerns.
God is right! We must impose divine law on these savages who must abide by our code. They have no rights over their own bodies. They must submit.
Unfortunately JAMA has taken the importune and unwise step of making the following very stupid statement: “The three leading principles of bioethics—respect for persons, beneficence and justice—together provide an ethical mandate for guaranteeing to women throughout the world a legal right to safe abortion.”
Of course we’ll have to disagree with that. It’s much better if we just stick with our good old blind and obtuse sense of simple ethics handed down to us by ancient white men from some mountain or other since time immemorial. I’m down with that. Sign me up.
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