Clinton lashes out at the pro-life position.
Bill Clinton, in his noble quest to keep his wife from being elect, recently berated pro-lifers. He accuses pro-lifers as wanting to criminalize women and their doctors. The crowd loved it. When Al Gore and Dan Quayle debated, Gore, personally opposing abortion but politically supporting it, asked Quayle to affirm the indisputable statement “A women has a right to her own body.” The only response Quayle could muster was that “every time you abort a baby you stop a beating heart.” Ravi Zacharias took the time to develop a rebuttal that satisfied and ultimately, superseded the taunt: “Mr. Gore, would you please repeat after me. Life in the womb is actually a life. Would you repeat that after me? If the answer is that is yes, what are you doing obliterating life? If the answer to that is no, why are you personally against it? If the answer to is I don’t know, how many more decisions are you going to make on an agnostic platform?” The law in their eyes has become arbitrary. A line drawn at the second trimesters hardly is utilizing a natural basis for law. But in this debate, there often times is a loss of cause. The lawfulness is so busy being debated that the morality of the issue is only in the periphery of making the act legislatively illegal. My pastor, John Swagger, says, “I don’t want see abortion illegal. I want to see it repulsive.” The heart of the issues lies within our own hearts. This isn’t an issue of law. It’s an issue about whether we are narcissistic people who evade the consequence of our own actions or if we are a people willing to love, a people who value others to the point of loving future generations, loving those who not yet are but are to come.
(via Trevin Wax)
