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ClearCommentary.com on Friday, May 30, 2008 3:11:34 PM
If we could reverse the arrow of time and run the phrase "reproductive rights" past people in the 1950s it would doubtless raise a few eyebrows, because, as evidenced by the mass of humanity around us, reproducing doesn't seem to be a right that's been abridged. But, as Arianna Huffington effortlessly demonstrates, those rights are code for an entirely different license, one that permits the unfettered right to destroy life, a separate, innocent life.
Huffington frames her argument as a foil for Clinton supporters who have pledged not to vote for Obama, and asks, with obvious astonishment:
You'd rather vote for John McCain, a man who has a 25-year history of voting against a woman's right to choose? A man who over the last eight years that NARAL has released a pro-choice scorecard has received a 0 percent rating (in his time in office, Obama has received a 100 percent rating? A man whose campaign website says he believes Roe v. Wade "must be overturned"? A man who has vowed that, as president, he will be "a loyal and unswerving friend of the right to life movement"?
As we've argued, the tyranny of the unaborted knows no limits, and denying life to the unborn is a more sanitized version of the moral depravity inherent in pogroms because it hides behind the insidiously false idea that a woman's 'right' to control her body extends to the separate life within her--that magnificent miracle that was not denied her by her mother, but which she now believes is hers to deny another.
There's a legacy the left has been building for thirty-eight years now, and, as is the case with all evolving legacies, they clearly lack the imagination to fully grasp its moral contours as it approaches its final form: To wit, The legal battle of Roe v. Wade momentarily aside, there are 50 million silenced souls lurking in the shadow of liberalism's grim legacy, faces that never smiled, God-given identities that were never blessed with names.
Yet, unlike more tangible atrocities, this liberal legacy lacks a defined sense of accountability, for who among them would confess to such a horrible breach of moral law? However, as time passes, we can only pray that they will understand the morally corrosive notion of keeping abortion "safe," and that the so-called "right to choose" will mean the moral absolute to choose life, not death.
It may take many more years, and, tragically, the loss of millions of innocent humans, but one day the Huffingtons of the world may recognize the gross irony of their totalitarian denial life to the unborn.