Abortion comparisons

Back in July we published excerpts and a link to this superb essay  "One women's journey from pro-choice atheist to pro-life Catholic" which was published in America magazine.

The author, Jennifer Fulwiler, has a really excellent weblog and this morning posted this Conversion Diary: Abortion and Holocaust comparisons - The diary of a former atheist . Besides being a fine posting in it's own right - Jennifer is a wonderful writer - there are numerous valuable links.

With this soon to happen, LifeNet: Obama administration to immediately reverse Bush pro-life policies and abortion to be treated as the moral equivalent of trimming your fingernails, it's important for all of us to study and re-read essays and postings like those of Jennifer Fulwiler.

Here is an excerpt from her posting we have linked to, and to repeat, she has numerous valuable links to bring home her points:

The injustice I sensed in the comparison was that the victims of the Holocaust experienced a level of suffering that is unparalleled in the human experience, a kind of suffering that no unborn baby, even the victims of late-term abortions, would or could ever know. During the Nazi reign mothers had toddlers torn from their arms to be sent to their deaths or, perhaps worse, walked hand-in-hand with their children into gas chambers. Millions of people were yanked from their homes, shoved into cattle cars, then starved, shot, gassed, and subjected to sick medical experiments -- and they all knew it was coming.

Ever since I learned about the events of the Nazi Holocaust in grade school not a week has gone by that I don't think of its victims and feel a little queasy to imagine what they went thorough. To minimize the horror that took place there is unconscionable, and I detest loose comparisons to the Holocaust.

One thing that has surprised me, then, as I've researched the pro-life position further, is that I do see a critical similarity between abortion and the Holocaust. To be very clear, I do not think it's the same thing. I do not think that they are directly analogous in every way. But I do think that both scourges are born of the same seed, and that it is not only appropriate but important to highlight what that is.

Comments

[thea mcginnis]

Demands for population control are already hitting the airwaves. Don't expect our government to protect the unborn, even in the most basic of token actions. What we prolifers need to do is educate against abortion with our young, within our families and be a voice of reason in a hyper-sexualized culture. Any environmental initiatives, which we need, will include an attack on world population. We need to be ready with answers and solutions.