Reprise: "So Banning Guns Won't Prevent Gun Violence But Banning Abortion Prevents Abortion"

Catholic Nun Explains Pro-Life In A Way That Will Stun Many (Especially Republican Lawmakers)

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/07/30/1407166/-Catholic-Nun-Explains-Pro-Life-In-A-Way-That-May-Stun-The-Masses?detail=emailclassic

Pro-life?
See how you rate with "the universal care rubric."

Cardinal Basil Hume: "Universal Healthcare And Infrequent Abortion Are Obviously Linked"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/cardinal-basil-hume-on-obvious.html

Are "Pro-Lifers" The Deadliest "Baby Killers" Of All?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/05/what-if-pro-lifers-are-deadliest-baby.html

Best Pax Posts About Trump's Cruelty, Mendacity And Seduction Of "Conservative" "Christians"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/best-pax-posts-about-trumps-cruelty.html

Alan: A significant chunk of conservative opposition to Science is its opposition to modern psychology whose findings definitively demonstratate the workings of "Projection" and "The Psychological Shadow" both of which give the lie to conservatives' diehard need to believe that Pharisaism is virtuous.

Psychological Projection

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/projection-psychology.html

Psychological Shadow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)

The Evangelical Persecution Complex (Projection's Finest Hour?)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-evangelical-persecution-complex.html

Psychological Projection Indicts "The Good Christians," Not The People They Indict

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/projection-psychology.html

Psychological Projection, "The Shadow" And American Conservatism's Hatred Of Islam

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/psychological-projection-shadow-and.html

Psychological Projection: Who's The Idiot?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/psychological-projection-whos-idiot.html
Best Pax Posts On Psychological Projection And "The Shadow"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/best-pax-posts-on-psychological.html

Yeshua Excoriates Fellow Pharisees: "The Woe Passages"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/08/yeshua-excoriates-fellow-pharisees-woe.html

"Twelve Steps For The Recovering Pharisee (Like Me)" By John Fischer

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/07/12-steps-for-recovering-pharisee-like.html

"Love Your Enemies. Do Good To Those Who Hate You," Luke 6: 27-42

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/love-your-enemies-do-good-to-those-who.html

"Do You Know What You're Doing To Me?"

Jesus of Nazareth

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/do-you-know-what-youre-doing-to-me.html

What Drives Abortion?

Income?

Or The Law?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/what-drives-abortion-income-or-law.html

The History Of Sex, Sin, Abortion And American Law. (An Eye-Poppingly Informative "1A" Show)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-history-of-sex-sin-abortion-and.html

Pro-Life Advocates Cause Abortion Rates To Soar. Pro-Abortion Advocates Cause It To Decline

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/03/pro-life-advocates-cause-abortion-rates.html

"Catholic Church Teaching On Health Care Refore," Notre Dame's Fr. Richard O'Brien

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/06/what-catholic-church-teaches-on-health.html

Reprise: Catholic Nun, Joan Chittester, Explains "Pro-Life" In A Way That Will Surprise American Conservatives

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/05/reprise-catholic-nun-explains-pro-life.html

The Facts: "Trump Would Rather Overturn Roe v. Wade Than Actually Reduce Abortion Rate"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-facts-trump-would-rather-overturn.html

"Frog Hospital's" Fred Owens And "Pax" Discuss Abortion
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/frog-hospitals-fred-owens-and-pax_11.html

The History Of Sex, Sin, Abortion And American Law. (An Eye-Poppingly Informative "1A" Show)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-history-of-sex-sin-abortion-and.html

Pro-Life Advocates Cause Abortion Rates To Soar. Pro-Abortion Advocates Cause It To Decline

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/03/pro-life-advocates-cause-abortion-rates.html

Abortion Rates Reach Historic Lows In Developed Countries (Where Abortion Is Legal)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/abortion-rates-reach-historic-low-in_12.html

Abortion, Donald Trump, Conservative Christians And Marley's Chains
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/11/abortion-donald-trump-conservative.html
The Thinking Housewife: Supporting Trump Makes You Bedfellows With Pro-Choice Advocates
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/10/supporting-trump-makes-you-bedfellows_6.html
GOP Platform Doubles Down On NO ABORTION EVER. 
Methinks They Protest Too Much
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/07/gop-platform-doubles-down-on-no.html
Given Conservative Fondness For "The End Justifies The Means," Note That Legal Abortion...
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/07/given-conservative-fondness-for-end.html
Abortion, Donald Trump, Conservative Christians And Marley's Chains
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/11/abortion-donald-trump-conservative.html
Given Conservative Fondness For "The End Justifies The Means," Note That Legal Abortion...
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/07/given-conservative-fondness-for-end.html
Updated Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Abortion
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/01/updated-compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on.html

Alan: The simplistic thinkers on "the pro-life side" pre-empt discussion and debate by a priori presumption that pro-choice (or, if you prefer, pro-abortion) advocates are baby killers and - as the meme below puts it: "perpetrators of genocidal infanticide."

Abortion is a persistent reality which has been discussed throughout human history, mostly with a "background" assumption that women would commit abortion when they saw fit and there would be no civil penalty. Furthermore, mainstream Jewish moral theology holds that abortion is not only valid in cases where the mother's life is at risk, but that it is urgent that the fetus be "ripped from the woman" in order to protect Mom. 

Abortion's bottom line is that people of conscience "draw the line somewhere" which - if nothing else - establishes the principle that once a society has drawn the line somewhere - e.g., in cases of "rape" or "incest" - then all conscionable people have the right to draw their "line" where their conscience informs them. Notably, there are no more than 27% of Americansd who say they oppose abortion even in cases of rape and incest. https://www.npr.org/2018/06/13/619200865/americans-support-for-abortion-rights-wanes-as-pregnancy-progresses

An Aside: Revealingly, the same "bottom line" pertains to Second Amendment limitation. There are no 2nd Amendment firebrands who argue that citizens have the right to bear nuclear weapons.

And so, even the most wild-eyed, conspiratorial militiamen (and militiawomen) admit that it is appropriate to "draw a line somewhere." And once a line is drawn, it establishes the principle that all American citizens have the right to draw their own line where they wish.

Yet again, the simple minds on the right always presume that their personal moral principles are, in effect, the principles dictated by God, and therefore they not only "can" but "must" impose their will on others.

The trustworthiness of "conservative" pro-lifers is further compromised by how egregiously loose they play with Truth in Donald Trump's regime.

In a personal communication, The Thinking Housewife told me point blank that she did not believe the well-documented fact that America's abortion rate is falling precipitously and that -- with safe, legal abortion in place (along with widespread scientific sex education and readily available contraception) the abortion rate is now lower than it was on the eve of Rowe v. Wade. And furthermore the trend line of declining abortion is clearly "heading south."

It is an inconvenient truth that there are routinely 2-3 times higher abortion rates in countries where abortion is illegal than in many countries where abortion is safe and legal.

Where abortion has been outlawed by pro-Life supporters, there are often significantly higher abortion rates, and sometimes hugely higher abortion rates.

If the pro-Life goal is to diminish the number of abortions (a practice that CANNOT be eliminated by law), then pro-Life advocates are morally obliged to support abortion, readily available contraception, and high-quality, scientific-predicated birth control.

Catholic Cardinal Basil Hume: "Universal Healthcare And Infrequent Abortion Are Obviously Linked"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/cardinal-basil-hume-on-obvious.html

"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  

"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton