Is PETA Pro-Life?
They should be.
California Catholic Daily has a piece on Vasu Murti’s book, The Liberal Case Against Abortion. Murti argues that the longstanding liberal agenda promoting abortion needs to change.
“By creatively and passionately using the universal question of the rights of animals, Murti analyzes the rights of the unborn,” writes Carol Crossed, president of Democrats for Life of America, in the foreword of the book. “The power of his persuasion is not based on one or more bodies of religious thought, but on sentient beings’ natural tendency to protect one another.” - California Daily
Gosh - finally someone from the secular liberal side recognizes the disparity between securing protective rights for animals, while advocating the wholesale slaughter of human foetuses through abortion on demand.
Will liberals listen? Probably not the elite - although the book may offer new strategies for pro-lifers to base their arguments from a liberal’s point of view. This is necessary since there’s a whole lot of people out there who could care less about the religious beliefs they feel motivate the pro-life movement in the first place. (”You can’t legislate morality.” - for instance.) They buy into the liberal agenda and have no need for religion, therefore they need to be convinced on their terms.
[Art: Detail - "Slaughter of the Innocents" - Giotto. This is what happened after the Wisemen left. Wisdom seems to have left our society as well.]
January 6th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
From Priests for Life: “John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama talked about the disproportionate number of blacks who die from AIDS, yet no one said a word about another disproportionately high killer of African Americans, abortion,” said Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King.
“Blacks comprise 12 percent of the population, yet at least one third of the babies aborted in this country are African American. Why? And more to the point, why are politicians afraid to talk about this? If they’re really concerned about racism in America, the abortion industry is an obvious place to start looking.”
Barack Obama has one of the most pro-death voting records of any candidate for President. Even Hilary Clinton voted to require aboruaries to attempt to save the lives of infants that somehow survive the attempt to kill them. Not Obama.
Many of those millions of dead black infants would be able to vote for him this year. Maybe he doesn’t want to win.
January 7th, 2008 at 12:50 am
There is no way a rational human being can justify the killing of human babies while at the same time trying to save whales.
A few years ago we had a little stray cat that wandered unto our property and promptly became “with child.” She was placed in a foster home but it was decided to spay her since she wasn’t very far along. Even that made me queasy. How can you do that to a human baby??
January 7th, 2008 at 1:47 am
“…[T]here’s a whole lot of people out there who could care less about the religious beliefs they feel motivate the pro-life movement in the first place.”
This is why it’s also important to argue the right to life of the unborn from a secular point of view. Some people who may side with us might be turned off by the religious component of the pro-life argument.
You can be completely athiestic and still believe in the right to life.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:11 am
There are a few interesting groups which are pro-life.
One of my favorites is Atheists for Life - they use sound reasoning to argue their point without having to involve religion.
(One should not have to involve religion to discuss abortion. It’s babies. Being killed.)
And of course, Feminists for Life is another organization.
(PS - Something like 75% of PP clinics are located in poor minority neighborhoods. Margaret Sanger lives!)