By Laurence M. Vance – Campaign for Liberty
Pro-life Hypocrisy
Churches all across America observed Sanctity of Human Life Sunday on January 24. Literature was passed out on the evils of abortion. Sermons were preached on the sin of abortion. The 1973 Supreme Court decision in the case of Roe v. Wade was denounced. The immorality of being a doctor who performs abortions was proclaimed. The horrors of partial-birth abortion were explained. Testimonies were read of women who regretted having abortions and doctors who felt guilty in having performed them. Prayers were made on behalf of women contemplating having an abortion. Gruesome pictures of abortions gone awry were shown. Calls were made for a constitutional amendment banning abortion. Planned Parenthood was singled out for special condemnation. Yet, nary a word was said about the ongoing slaughter of innocents that is funded by the U.S. government.
Although I sympathize with the pro-life cause, believing with Ron Paul that “a fetus is a human life deserving of legal protection, and that the right to life is the foundation of any moral society,” I must point out that many pro-lifers are hypocrites with a warped view of what it means to be pro-life.
Do adults have the same right to life as unborn children? Do foreigners have the same right to life as unborn American babies? Many pro-lifers don’t think so. It is hypocrisy in the highest degree to talk about the sanctity of life, the evils of abortion, the horrors of partial-birth abortion, and to vocally claim that one is pro-life, but then turn around and show contempt for, or indifference to, the lives of adults and foreigners. Are the lives of unborn children more valuable than the lives of adults? Are the lives of unborn American babies more valuable than the lives of foreigners?
Absent from most churches on Sanctity of Human Life Sunday was any reference to the slaughter of tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans in unjust, unconstitutional, immoral wars instigated by the United States. U.S. soldiers have now been fighting in Iraq for seven years. They have been fighting in Afghanistan even longer. Countless numbers of Iraqis and Afghans have been killed by American bombs and bullets in senseless wars of imperialism and occupation. Thousands of U.S. soldiers died in vain thanks to the lies of the Bush administration. Hundreds more have died under the Obama administration thanks to the president’s failure to bring the troops home from Iraq as promised and the escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Do U.S. soldiers have a right not to have to give their life in vain?
It is never moral to kill someone and destroy his property unless one is acting in self-defense. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are anything but self-defense. The United States invaded sovereign countries thousands of miles away that had not attacked us. Before the United States invaded Afghanistan, not one American had been killed by an Afghan. And before the United States invaded Iraq, not one American had been killed by an Iraqi since the previous time we invaded Iraq. But have not Afghans and Iraqis killed, injured, or maimed thousands of U.S. soldiers? Of course they have. The sobering truth is that Americans would do the same thing to foreign troops that invaded our soil. We can call the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq regime change, spreading democracy, nation building, or even retaliation for the 9/11 attacks, but we certainly cannot call them wars of self-defense.
The idea is ludicrous, of course, that the invasion, occupation, and destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq were in retaliation for, or even a legitimate response to, the 9/11 attacks. None of the hijackers were from those countries. In fact, most of the hijackers were from our ally, Saudi Arabia. And as Ron Paul has pointed out over and over again, the departure of the United States from the noninterventionist foreign policy of the Founding Fathers in not interfering militarily, financially, or covertly in the internal affairs of other nations is an important reason 9/11 occurred. It is an arrogant, aggressive, interventionist U.S. foreign policy that serves to recruit terrorists and increase the hatred of foreigners toward the United States. The majority of Osama bin Laden’s venom is directed at the West for aggression, oppression, and exploitation of Muslim lands and peoples, not because he, like President Bush driveled, “hates our freedoms.”
Over twice as many U.S. soldiers have now been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq than people were killed in the 9/11 attacks. About 250 times as many Afghans and Iraqis have now died than people who died on 9/11. Yet, pro-lifers who support these wars consider an American doctor in a white coat a murderer if he kills an unborn baby, but an American soldier in a uniform a hero if he kills a foreigner.
It is time for pro-lifers to start being consistent. War is the greatest destroyer of religion, morality, and decency. War is the greatest destroyer of families and young lives. Foreigners who are no threat to this country should have the same right to life as babies in the wombs of American mothers. The right to life of U.S. soldiers should not so needlessly be put in jeopardy. May the next Sanctity of Human Life Sunday recognize the right to life of all people, American and foreign, child and adult.
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Even Helen Thomas knows the answer to this riddle?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/19-1
“PEACE WILL BREAK US”!……………But that’s a lie also.
Mr. Vance has flawed thinking believing that the slaughter of the innocents can be compared to adults, children or “foreigners”.
Yes, we should be pro-life, but abortion is known as an intrinsic evil and should not to be put in “equal” terms such as he attempted to argue in this article. Sorry, but this article is a total disappointment to the pro-life person that genuinely understands the issues.
Excellent article. I’ve tried many time to make this point to a co-worker, without success. She simply cannot grasp the idea that the lives of people in foreign countries is just as valuable as the lives of those around us. I’ve given up trying to convice her… but will print this article and post on my church bulletin board!
Dropping a bomb on a city 5,000 miles away is just as evil as ripping out an unborn baby. Worse, these neocon churches have been blessing the bombe we are dropping over there. I walked out of my Church and never returned when they had an Air Force Officer as a guest speaker talking about how they are doing “Gods work” by killing terrorists and “Protecting our freedom”
Being a 26 year veteran myself, and turning down a 27th year of service when it was clear we were starting a war with Iraq, I could only respond that I joined the military to repel invaders, not to be one.
I can only say that I could not possibly agree with Mr. Vance more.
“Save the babies in the US, but wipe out those rag heads…even if they didn’t do anything to us.” Sad indeed.
While I have no love for Islam (it is the scourge of the world and has been ever since Mohammed raped his first child), the reason they attack us is not because “they hate our way of life”, it’s because of our unwavering, unquestioning, massive support for Israel, and our increasing military interventions in the Middle East. The “Terrorists” tell us this, over and over again.
Islam the scourge of the world? What about the Crusaders? They raped and murdered just as much as any Muslim did. Furthermore, the Crusaders were just as anti Semetic as the Nazis. In fact, the Nazis claim to be finishin what the Crusaders started. How about Communism? It wiped out more people than all of the religious wars combined. And now we have neoconservatism which wants to remake the world in our own image using the same “Convert or die” Messageyou accuse Islam of doing. As far as Mohammed raping his forst child, We have more child rape than Mohammed could ever imagine.
“Not by might not by power but by my spirit says the Lord” Woodrow Wilson had long forsaken and undermined the Presbyterian church which was the backbone of American culture until the early part of the 20th century. He essentially tried to accomplish the great commission through means of the US military. Up until WWI we heeded the founding fathers admonition to stay out of foreign wars. Nevertheless many of us have grown up being taught that the world would have gone to hell if it were not for the United States. Perhaps we should have focuse more on the writings of John Winthrop who illustrated the City on a Hill in his sermon “A Model of Christian Charity.”
this is the stupidest article i’ve ever read. and the only thing more idiotic than a bunch of leftist calling christians hypocritical because they care about aborted children and not about the people we’re bombing, while at the same time they are caring about the people we’re bombing but not about the children we’re murdering through the infanticide of abortion, which makes them just as hypocritical, is bernies moronic comment comparing christian crusaders to nazi’s and communists. and are people really still using the word anti semetic? come on bernie, next time put some thought into your post before calling everybody you disagree with anti semetic okay?
Right on fdaniel! Woodrow Wilson would go on to have a stoke after realising the error of his ways. After the Allies arrogantly rejected his ideas and imposed the Treaty of Versalles, He knew he made a mistake. It was Wilson himself who predicted this mistake would lead to another Great War.
Well Lawbreaker
The Crusaders were very bit as evil as the Nazis and Communists. Like America today, they claimed to be Christian but their deds said otherwise. The sad truth is that the abortion rate, along with divorce, teen pregnancy, and all the other vices of the world are no different among those who claim to be Christian than those of the godless left. And then they have the arrogance to bomb other countries in order to force them to be more like them. The truth is that the Crusaders killed Jews with the same vigor they killed Moslems and thus, were just as anti Semetic as the Nazis.
Military interventionism and war have always been the #1 money-maker and enabler of bankers and collectivists. War is not only good for business, it is very good for fascist/socialist government. When big business and big government become indistinguishable as they are is in the United States currently, you can be damn sure there will be war, lots and lots of war. Constant, never-ending, systemmic war.
What, exactly, is supposed to be your point, BernieEOD? Because someone else is bad, it’s OK for Islam to be bad too? And the whole Crusader thing is really done to death. It gets trotted out by every Islamic apologist that comes down the pike…utterly unwilling to address the evils of Islam, enshrined in the Koran and Hadith, and turning the blame onto someone else. No, I’m not crazy about the Crusades….and Roman Catholocism should not be confused with Christianity (sorry, Pat, but it’s true). Many evils can certainly be found here, and usually, I am one of the first to point them out, but it’s not a relevant issue here.
My point, which seems to have been lost, is that even though Islam is true evil, and no matter how oppressive these Islamic paradises around the world are, we should leave them alone. Their affairs are none of our business. Let them continue clubbing each other over the head, as they have for many centuries, and will continue to do. Who cares if Iraq invades Kuwait? One Muslim tyranny traded for another. We should heed the words of America’s founders, and have “friendship and trade with all nations, entangling alliances with none”. Let Israel and all the rest of the world fend for themselves. When you gain an ally, you also gain their enemies. We have too many “allies” and way too many enemies.
There shall always be dragons around the world to slay, and as long as the Internationalist Left, and the Neoconservative Right are in charge, we will take it upon ourselves to do so. And if a dragon is not immediately available, it seems one will be manufactured for us.
It is well established that the vast majority of people who get bitten by snakes, were poking at the snake with a stick. The US Government, and those in control of it, take great delight in poking at snakes with sticks.
Charity begins at home!
If you don’t care about the unborn in America, then how can you care about those killed in Iraq??? That is why the peace-niks ARE hypocrites!
Were those Iraqis killed rightly or wrongly? I don’t know! I’ll concede the premises that Gulf War II was a mistake; unconstitutional; waged under pretexts; or mishandled. But if you equate Gulf War II with abortion, then you are losing your mind!!!
Mary M yes abortion is an intrinsic evil, so is dropping a bunker buster on homes and neighborhoods. The article is right on the mark.. if the right to life the most basic right for any human, that means all humans, Afghans Arabs included.
This is largely a Protestant problems. With the violence of the Old Testament offered as God’s wrath. In mainline, long established Chritianit , war like capital punishmen6 is murder, and a sin crying out to heaven for vengence.
Sorry Mary M, but if you can not connect the fact that killing is murder regardless of what point one is in the state of life, than you are not a person who genuinely understands the issues. Would I be any less a murderer if I walked into your house and shot you dead than the person who performs an abortion? Not in any real sense I wouldn’t be. We are in a foreign lands that have done nothing to us as a nation. We are conducting an immoral, unethical and UnConstitutional War in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as expanding the war into Yemen and Pakistan. So under your reasoning these people are not worth as much in GOD’s eyes as that baby in the womb! I am sorry but by natural law these people that have done nothing to America are innocent as much as that baby in the womb.
Now if you want to say that they attacked America on 9/11, you are looking at the wrong country as all of those “supposed terrorists” were from Saudi Arabia. Why are we not in Saudi Arabia and holding them responsible. They are the folks that not only promote the most fundamental form of Islam, but support the acts of terrorism.