{"id":1469683,"date":"2022-05-10T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1469683"},"modified":"2022-05-10T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T12:00:55","slug":"why-todays-left-is-willing-to-admit-abortion-kills-a-child-and-still-support-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-todays-left-is-willing-to-admit-abortion-kills-a-child-and-still-support-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Today\u2019s Left Is Willing To Admit Abortion Kills A Child And Still Support It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-todays-left-is-willing-to-admit-abortion-kills-a-child-and-still-support-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1469683&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Defending a woman\u2019s license to kill her child has always been a nasty business, and the nastiness is back with a renewed vengeance in the wake of the leaked <em>Dobbs v. Jackson <\/em>draft opinion that could overturn <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. Obvious in the tone and substance of the reaction from the pro-abortion crowd is the deep-running selfishness that permeates our individualist society. <\/p>\n<p>Any sinful culture \u2014 as all are between Eden and glory \u2014 might allow or excuse the killing of an innocent child. But the times such an act has been <em>celebrated<\/em> have historically been tied to religious rituals in which a child was sacrificed to a supposed deity. In our post-religious culture, that sacrifice is laid on the idol of self.<\/p>\n<p>That self-obsession and self-worship help explain why the arguments for abortion have shifted from \u201csafe, legal, and rare\u201d to open fetishizing the deaths of babies. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m killing the babies!\u201d an activist in front of the Basilica of St. Patrick\u2019s Old Cathedral in New York City <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nyc-church-abortion-protesters\">screamed<\/a> while wearing a one-piece swimsuit with dolls stuffed inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKill those f-cking babies,\u201d one demonstrator screamed at the Supreme Court last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pro-abortion. PRO. ABORTION. if I don\u2019t want to be pregnant? vacuum that sh-t out of me like a dental assistant with my saliva,\u201d one particularly crude Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1521901540495220736\">remarked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"421\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1521507103466164225\">video<\/a> posted by Libs of TikTok compiled clips of people who responded to the question, \u201cAre aborted babies being burned and used for electricity?\u201d with \u201cI hope so,\u201d cackling, and other deeply disturbing responses. I won\u2019t embed it below \u2014 it can\u2019t be described as anything short of demonic.<\/p>\n<p>Back in December, abortion activists <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/01\/abortion-activists-chant-grin-while-taking-baby-killing-pills-on-supreme-court-steps\/\">gleefully<\/a> took what appeared to be abortion pills in front of the court.<\/p>\n<h2>How We Got Here<\/h2>\n<p>Mankind has been committing the sin of selfishness for millennia. Indeed, it was elevating his desires and conceit above the commands of God that separated man from his perfect communion with God in Eden. He has continued to practice selfishness and greed ever since. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why civilizations have gone to war, overthrown governments, raped conquered provinces, abused the vulnerable, robbed, murdered, lied, and cheated. Selfishness is nothing new, and neither is abortion, which was practiced by the ancient Egyptians (and surely even earlier). <\/p>\n<p>But in the Christianized West, although its application was far from perfect, the concept of life\u2019s intrinsic value began to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/03\/in-a-post-christian-west-expect-a-resurgence-of-violence-brutality-and-opression\/\">take root<\/a>. For a time, our society could agree that to kill your own child was an act of deep cruelty, selfishness, and depravity.<\/p>\n<p> The \u201cenlightenment\u201d of the 18th century, with its presumption of man\u2019s perfectability, heralded a social ethic that assumed man was (or at least could be) intrinsically good. The darker effects of this political and moral philosophy became evident in the next century, when aspirations of perfectibility prompted Darwinian ideas of \u201csurvival of the fittest\u201d and a disturbing eugenics movement (in which our modern abortion movement has its roots).<\/p>\n<p>By the 20th century, society began to rebel against this modernism, especially after Nazi Germany demonstrated the extreme (but consistent) culmination of such social Darwinism. In its place, jointly fueled by the political individualism of democratic thought, came postmodernism, and its rejection of objective moral reality. <\/p>\n<p>With postmodernism came the idea that each person could define his own truth and therefore his own reality. It\u2019s fed our social revolt against biology, and the craze to \u201cfind\u201d one\u2019s own identity \u2014 often in external qualities like race or sex, or in imagined \u201cgender identities.\u201d Our culture of victimhood only serves to further the self-preservation ethic. <\/p>\n<h2>A Terminally Selfish Culture <\/h2>\n<p>Selfishness isn\u2019t unique to our moment, but it does manifest today in a particularly straightforward way. If we believe the highest telos of our existence is self-discovery, our lives cease to serve any higher purpose than ourselves. <\/p>\n<p>It makes sense, then, that our culture would glorify abortion because, by that paradigm, killing an inconvenient baby is a means to self-empowerment. If eugenicist abortionists pushed to kill off babies for the \u201cgood\u201d of society a century ago, now they purport to do so for the \u201cgood\u201d of the individual woman.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why abortion activists can, in complete seriousness, advocate for the murder of a full-term child. It doesn\u2019t matter to them that the baby is a living being \u2014 if he or she conflicts with a woman\u2019s self-love, that baby doesn\u2019t deserve to live. It\u2019s perfectly consistent with our culture\u2019s increasingly popular perception of having children as a fulfillment of their parents\u2019 wants instead of a responsibility to cherish that requires sacrifice and self-denial.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say people in previous times have been any less selfish; the fallen status of man is not measured in degrees. But the traits our culture chooses to elevate are linked to our celebration of abortion in especially obvious ways. <\/p>\n<p>If self-gratification is our highest good, then any act (up to and including the murder of a child) becomes good if done in its pursuit. If we are our own arbiters of truth, then moral reality ceases to become an inhibition, and life itself ceases to become an inherent good. If limiting the licentious indulgence of our own desires is \u201coppression\u201d and therefore the greatest sin, then the anti-abortion crowd becomes the bad guys.<\/p>\n<p>Until we confront the self-idolatry of our culture, many people will truly believe abortion is not just a \u201cnecessary evil\u201d but a self-empowering good. Merely convincing them that abortion takes the precious life of a baby does nothing to shatter that paradigm, if they value their own imagined \u201cempowerment\u201d more than that life. The message their mania requires is that something true, good, and infinitely worthy could exist that is greater than themselves.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. You can follow her work on Twitter at @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending a woman\u2019s license to kill her child has always been a nasty business, and the nastiness is back with a renewed vengeance in the wake of the leaked Dobbs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}