Thursday, February 11, 2010
Powerful stories . . . of choice?
William Saletan's follow-up on the Tebow ad and accompanying Focus on the Family stories is worth reading. (And if you haven't watched the full video of the Tebow story, you should.)
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2010/02/powerful-stories-of-choice.html
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Saletan finally notes that "Induced delivery at 32 weeks isn't abortion." But his concession is almost too little, too late in his article, and he never really internalizes the fact. There's a difference between induced labor trying to save a child, and ripping its arms and legs off as it comes out. There's a real pro-life (not "pro-choice") sacrifice in waiting 18 more weeks during a risky pregnanct so that when induction happens the baby will have a chance instead of no chance. To Saletan, in the tone of most of his comments, it's all the same killing of a fetus. But in the public policy and moral issue of abortion, which he is debating, it is not and never has been the same.