The schizophrenia of a socially constructed “right”

Moral inconsistencies are never better illustrated than in real life.

Check out these two stories, printed a day apart. In the one, we have Megan Huntsman charged with six counts of first degree murder and receiving a life sentence for each newborn child that she suffocated.

In the next story a day later, we have “Lisa” glibly discussing her four abortions thus;

With the first one, you don’t know what’s going to happen. You’re scared and anxious. But once you see all the other women there, it doesn’t make you feel that bad.

And it does get easier with the more you have. I know that sounds really bad, but that is just how it is.

Megan Huntsman killed her children because she had a drug addiction and didn’t want the responsibility of raising her children.

“Lisa” killed her children because each was fathered by a different man and she didn’t want the responsibility of raising her children.

One will go to jail and quite possibly never see the light of day again. Had she had her six children killed a few days earlier through an abortion procedure, FOR THE SAME REASONS we would never have known her name.  Today she is a social pariah and a convicted felon.

Lisa on the other hand, will walk free. We will never know her real name because it has been protected, and she can carry on her life under the guise of anonymity, having more abortions if she so chooses.

The doctors who she had kill her four children will continue to dismember countless more and earn a great living doing so.

The only difference between these two mothers is that “Lisa” had the sense to have her children “terminated” through legal abortion. She played the game right.

There you have the great injustice and the horror of legal abortion, and the schizophrenia of a socially constructed “right” that is vehemently and aggressively defended, while violating everything that is decent about life.

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