After asserting that our most important job is to give our
children “what they need to become self-reliant and capable and resilient,
ready to face the world without fear,” and after stressing the importance of “keeping
our children safe, and teaching them well” and noting that “we bear a
responsibility for every child,” the president made this weighty claim: “This is our first task—caring for our
children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get
anything right. That’s how, as a
society, we will be judged.”
Strong words! And
wise. What’s more, the leader of the
free world delivered them with a sense of urgency. But I must ask a question:
Mr. President, since the protection of children is such a
crucial priority for our society, and since you have not taken action to
protect the unborn, it must be that
you have evidence, compelling evidence, that the unborn are not children. Since this is your position, please share
the overwhelming and convincing evidence you possess that allows you, on the
one hand, to look the other way as abortion goes on (over a million per year in
the USA), and yet, on the other hand, passionately to announce our national
outrage over the slaughter of innocent school children.
After all, unless we have utterly compelling reasons to
classify those outside the womb differently from those inside the womb, we
would want to err on the side of protection for the unborn. Since we affirm every person’s right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” and in light of the fact that the unborn
have so many characteristics in common with those who have been born, surely
the burden of proof is upon those—upon you—who
contend that the unborn are not children.
In order to support the practice of abortion (and, indeed, to treat it
as a person’s right), both rationality and decency require persuasive evidence
that in so doing we “do no harm” to children.
Mr. President, please deliver that evidence.
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