May 14, 2023

If the product of procreation is without value, how can anyone be sure that the postnatal child is not correspondingly devalued?

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If a woman has no qualm about terminating the developing child within her, is she not at risk of withholding the empathy and love needed for the child she allows to be born? How can this basic requirement of life be switched on and off ad lib?

How do mind and feeling sepa­rate to deliver a choice between terminating an innocent human life or accepting and preparing for the imminent miracle of birth? Such a disconnect from the human function that bestowed life on us all hovers between pathological and criminal. The very sense of mother/child must be missing from a mind so disordered, so dulled by political rant as to suppress the mothering instinct in an otherwise sensible woman. And the man so disoriented about his part in the procreative process is no less impaired.

Mother may be a dirty word in Brave New World and in other dystopian visions of the future, but a fact of reality is that motherhood is cen­tral to life and health. Before the 20th century revision of wisdom that took thousands of years to acquire, mothers were venerated in word and deed and celebrated in music and art.

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So barren is the mind in which conjugal love and life are totally separated, so desensitized and compromised, that what grows in the womb – a new human life – can be treated like garbage. This turpitude in morality propagates the tragic notion that life really is worthless.

Has it become a fact of 21st century life that the “product of procreation” – such as you, me and everybody else – is something disposable, like trash?

How do words like “choice” and “reproductive rights’’ make the turning of human life into a form of garbage any less horrid than murder or genocide?

Shortly after the Roe v. Wade blunder to legalize death by abortion, I wrote: “Anyone who can believe that the value of life really depends on a private decision must instantly drop that idea when facing the barrel of a gun held by some­one who agrees.”

Can it honestly be asserted that such total disregard for life has no ill effect on children that grow up sensing that the reason they’re alive is that their mothers did not terminate them before they were born? (It need not be a conscious process of thought.) Who can calculate the degree of psychological harm on the young that accrues from the “pro-choice” license to kill?

This gnawing at the heart of life is red-flagged in a Ron Paul OpEd: