{"id":2211300,"date":"2024-04-02T11:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/examining-the-lefts-position-on-killing-an-innocent-baby\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T11:38:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:38:25","slug":"examining-the-lefts-position-on-killing-an-innocent-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/examining-the-lefts-position-on-killing-an-innocent-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyzing the Left&#8217;s Stance on Aborting an Innocent Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fexamining-the-lefts-position-on-killing-an-innocent-baby%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=2211300&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>Michael Knowles presented the second part of his\u200b speech at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on March 13, 2024, where he \u2064discussed the ethics of abortion. He analyzed various arguments regarding abortion and questioned the morality of taking innocent lives. The speech \u200cdelves into contrasting views on killing animals, criminals, self-defense, and the\u200d inconsistency \u2062observed in the liberal perspective on the sanctity of life.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the second part of a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/michael-knowles-offers-the-case-against-murder-an-anti-abortion-speech-at-university-of-wisconsin-madison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">speech<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  delivered by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/the-michael-knowles-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michael Knowles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday, March 13, 2024.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-pro-abortion-crowd-wants-to-pretend-that-infanticide-is-a-constitutional-right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">examined and refuted<\/a> the historical, legal, constitutional, and anthropological arguments for abortion \u2014 having cleared away all the muck that obscures the abortion debate \u2014 the final question remains: Is it moral? Is it moral to commit murder? Is it moral to kill an innocent little baby in the womb for any reason?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first question to answer is whether it\u2019s ever ok to kill at all. Is it ok to kill an animal? Is it ok to kill a plant? Plants are living things. Liberals sometimes hug trees. I, for one, think it\u2019s perfectly fine to kill a plant, just as I think it\u2019s perfectly fine to kill an animal. Our bodies are made to eat animals. And if you want to eat an animal, you\u2019ve usually got to kill it. Unless you\u2019re one of those Korean ladies on TikTok who eat live octopuses and squids and things, generally you\u2019ve got to kill the animal first. Which is fine. Animals are not rational, they are naturally part of the human diet, and there\u2019s nothing wrong with using a thing for its purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ironically, abortion supporters are much <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">more likely<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  to object to killing animals than pro-lifers are. You will not meet many conservative vegetarians. But virtually every purple-haired vegan you ever meet will support abortion. They oppose the killing of irrational animals as inhumane, but they support the killing of human babies as a human right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These liberals will support laws like the Bald Eagle Protection Act. If you kill a bald eagle in the United States \u2014 if you destroy a bald eagle egg, if you in any way agitate a bald eagle, if you even so much as disturb a bald eagle\u2019s nest <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">when the eagle is not present <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014 you can be fined $100,000, imprisoned for a year, or both \u2014 for your first offense. And the penalties only get worse after that. Kill a human baby? The liberals will throw you a party and call you a hero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So much for animals. Is it ok to kill bad guys? It depends. The moral and legal tradition in our civilization \u2014 and every civilization \u2014 for all of history has been for the government, the civil authority, to kill certain bad guys. The civil authority has care of the community. When someone poses a threat to the community, the civil authority, which does not bear the sword in vain, has always been understood to possess the temporal power to enforce the laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/the-michael-knowles-show\">WATCH: The Michael Knowles Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here, once again, the pro-abortion people disagree. The pro-abortion crowd, the liberals, in recent years have tended to argue against capital punishment. They lobby to get even the very worst criminals \u2014 the psychosexual sadist serial killers \u2014 off the hook. They seek to abolish the death penalty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How about the private killing of bad guys? Not the government, just individuals. Vigilantes. Private people hunting down their personal enemies. Is that ok? My view \u2014 the traditional view \u2014 is that it\u2019s not ok because, while it\u2019s lawful to kill an evildoer to defend the community, that right belongs to him who has charge of the community\u2019s welfare. To borrow an analogy from St. Thomas Aquinas, just as it belongs to the surgeon to cut off the decayed limb of his patient, so too the care of the common good belongs to the persons entrusted with public authority. We don\u2019t want randos going around chopping people\u2019s limbs off; nor do we want randos going around shooting their own perceived enemies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Again, the liberals seem to disagree. When BLM spent eight months pillaging and murdering all around the country, the most prominent liberals \u2014 some of the most prominent abortion supporters in the country, the current vice president of the United States and staff members of the president \u2014 raised money to bail the criminals out of jail. In recent years, liberals have openly called to defund the police, even to abolish prisons. They\u2019ve allowed vigilantes to shut down highways. They\u2019ve encouraged vigilantes to threaten and terrorize Republican elected officials. You might remember Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) in the early days of the Trump administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is it ok to kill a person in self-defense? I think most reasonable people would say yes. The liberals, however, often criticize laws that defend self-defense \u2014 Stand Your Ground laws, the Second Amendment, etc. In practice, they deny the right to kill in self-defense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, for those still keeping score, the libs <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">oppose<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  killing animals, murderers, and people who are trying to kill you, but they <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">support<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  killing their private enemies and innocent little babies. The Left\u2019s position on killing seems to become weirder and weirder the more we examine it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How about killing yourself? Is suicide ok? My answer \u2014 the traditional answer \u2014 is no. Because it is contrary to nature. It\u2019s contrary to the natural inclination to preserve yourself. It\u2019s contrary to self-love and charity. Also, it harms the community, to which we have an obligation. This is why we describe suicide as a \u201cselfish act\u201d that traumatizes, often for life, the loved ones of the people who do it. Further, life is a gift given to us by God which we have neither the ultimate ability to create nor the right to end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The libs, you will not be surprised to hear, say otherwise. Liberals throughout the West are presently attempting to legalize suicide and even to commercialize suicide by selling tickets to suicide pods and various \u201ceuthanasia\u201d poisons. \u201cDon\u2019t kill an animal; do kill yourself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, we finally arrive at the core question: Is it ever ok to kill the innocent? Obviously, we wouldn\u2019t be killing them in self-defense. We wouldn\u2019t be killing them because they committed a crime. And we wouldn\u2019t be killing them to protect the common good because (one) they\u2019re part of the community \u2014 because they\u2019re people \u2014 and (two) they actually advance the common good. Because they\u2019re innocent. Therefore, it is never acceptable under any circumstances to kill the innocent, including the most vulnerable among us \u2014 innocent little babies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abortion is totally indefensible: historically, legally, anthropologically, and morally. Because it\u2019s wrong to commit murder. In an earlier and saner age, we could have settled that question in pretty much those five words. Today, however, we\u2019re more confused. We\u2019ve made an idol of choice \u2014 a false kind of liberty \u2014 and we prefer it to reason. We mistakenly think that\u2019ll make us better off. Because we forget that when society rejects reason, it necessarily conducts politics through irrational violence, which we see increasingly around us and which imperils not only our liberty but also our very lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Knowles delivered the second part of his speech at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on March 13, 2024. 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