Innocent. Life.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 11:44PM 
Yo dawg ... I am so down with Twitter.
As a potential time-waster the twittersphere ranks right up there with Johnny Depp fansites and computer Solitaire, but it can be used to good effect. And believe me, one who is logging on a half-dozen times a day and paying attention can sometimes glean an important insight from a 140-character-or-less tweet.
But this wasn't one of those times.
When in a random search I entered the term "pro-life" (looking for like-minded Twitterers to follow), I found many pro-aborts whining opining that pro-lifers are ignorant hypocrites. Why? Because frequently their anti-abortion stand coexists peaceably with a conviction that the death penalty is decidedly not cruel and unusual punishment when warranted by the circumstances and carried out according to law.
Seems a no-brainer to my simple way of thinking.
Despite its predictable ubiquity among libs, this tired old "argument" -- stale as last December's fruitcake -- never ceases to astound me.
I drape the word "argument" in quotation marks because while I think these people believe they are posing a valid point, the premise is so untenable that it barely counts as the real thing. As apples-to-apples types of things go, this comparison is weak at best and ludicrous at worst.
*stands at mid-ring and grabs microphone that descends from ceiling*
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to tonight's prizefight! In this corner, wearing nothing but its birthday suit, we have a teensy-weensy unborn baby contending for the title! He could have been somebody!
In the other corner, wearing an orange jumpsuit, we have the challenger: a convicted serial murderer! He came, he saw, he tortured and killed his fellow man!
In a moment the bell will sound and they'll come out swinging! The winner gets to go on living! The loser takes the big dirt nap!
I'm rooting for the little unborn baby to live. I do not care if the murderer dies. In fact, I prefer it. Seems a no-brainer to my simple way of thinking, but then I was not "educated" at a fancy Ivy League school or, for that matter, any stripe of a liberal state university.
For which I thank God every day.
The "intellectual" libs (ever learning yet never coming any nearer to the truth) are on their feet ringside, cheering for the likes of Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Marie Noe, John Wayne Gacy, David Berkowitz, Aileen Wuornos, Richard Speck, Charles Manson, Michael Swango, Marybeth Tinning, Gary Leon Ridgway, Eddie Gein, Albert DeSalvo ... and their despicable murderous ilk, ad nauseam, ad infinitum.
It is not hypocritical to be pro-life and, at the same time, pro-death penalty.
(Not a single abortionist in the above list of names ... and they're the most prolific serial killers the world has ever known. Collectively, they make Adolf Hitler look like a rank amateur. And yet, nobody's doing a 20/20 segment or an episode of Notorious about them.)
Make no mistake: the libs want that baby dead ... the baby who, having committed no crime apart from existing in the first place (through no fault or effort of its own), is presumed guilty from the word go and summarily consigned to a merciless agony of death with nary an advocate to plead its case.
It never heard its Miranda rights. It never got its phone call. It had no defense counsel, no offer of a plea bargain, no bail hearing, no psychological evaluation, no trial (fair or otherwise), no jury of its peers, no insanity defense, no family members in the gallery, no probation, no commuted sentence, no appeal, no pardon, no last (or first) meal, no last (or first) words, no forgiveness, no prayers, no chance. No rights whatsoever.
The pro-aborts want that baby to be swiftly executed in ways so unspeakable, they refuse to speak of them and won't hesitate to vilify anyone who does. They don't want to see pictures of the finished product, either. I mean, why confuse yourself with images of tiny baby parts lying in bloody heaps alongside surgical instruments? So tiresome when you just know you're in the right on the issue of this "tissue."
But they picket and protest and hold spooky candlelight vigils while hollering about the "inhumane" ways in which we rid society of psychotic bloodthirsty criminals -- the ones guilty of remorselessly hunting men, women, and children like animals, snuffing out human lives in the most heinous, vile, humiliating, and painful ways imaginable -- who are required to "suffer" being put to sleep in a sterile room with a comfy pillow beneath their heads.
If I think about it for too long, my own sanity will soon be nothing but a chalk outline on the pavement.
I'll never be smart enough to figure that one out.
I suggest leveling the playing field. If the pro-aborts are happy and proud about the incredibly savage way that little babies are put to death in America -- one every 23 seconds, more than 50 million since abortion infanticide was legalized -- then I think it only fair that criminals convicted of offenses worthy of the death penalty under our laws, be subjected to a mode of death identical to that which the innocent babies are obliged to endure.
Maybe when the scissors are poised at the base of the death row criminals' skulls and the giant turkey-baster at the ready to suck their brains out, and their limbs are about to be torn from their torsos -- without benefit of anesthetic or even a tranquilizer, while their executioners enjoy full protection of the law -- unborn babies will be safe in America once more.
It is not hypocritical to be pro-life and, at the same time, pro-death penalty. It makes perfect sense. The mindset I cannot comprehend is the one that is vehemently pro-abortion but dogmatically anti-capital punishment.
I'll never be smart enough to figure that one out. In a different situation the fact of my ignorance might rankle me, but in this case, I gladly embrace it. I think it's the only intelligent thing to do.
Reader Comments (5)
I don't understand it either. It seems so clear to me and I'll never understand how people can think this is ok.
They delude themselves by saying they are "pro-choice." There is no "choice" when it comes to their agenda, abortion being the only option given to many women (and no "choice" whatsoever for men, even though the last time I checked, it takes TWO to make that "tissue"). Having only one option inherently nullifies the meaning of the word CHOICE, making them PRO-ABORTION, plain and simple.
What rankles me the most, though, is their longstanding and continued abuse of the Court's decisions in Roe and Doe, the blatant manipulation of what was REALLY allowed, and the malignancy they allow to spread by promoting and encouraging this disinformation campaign.
I, too, always stood in wonderment at their ability to shed tears over the cruel and unusual punishment endured by tried and convicted (by a jury of their peers) and sentenced to death (according to the laws of their state) inmates of the very worst caliber while rabidly condoning the absolutely mortifying specter that is abortion.
Yes, they are deluding themselves - and everyone else - by claiming to be pro-choice. I call myself pro-choice, but *MY* definition is the absolute opposite of what they claim to be and promote: There should be a choice - as in more then ONE option - and each must be allowed to make it for themselves without the "benefit" of outside interference from protesters of any stripe or even legislators. After all, the ONE person who has to live with the consequences of that decision (no matter which way it goes) is THAT PERSON - no one has the right to force another to live with consequences of a decision they were unable to make for themselves, and no one has a right to berate them for making it (again, no matter which way it goes). On the other hand, they also have no right to strip that person of the opportunity to make that decision, by offering abortion as THE ONLY OPTION.
My "PRO-CHOICE" stance is not limited to abortion, either, but encompasses ALL aspects of our personal life in which no one else - not advocates, not protesters, and NOT legislators - has ANY business interfering, including whether or not to smoke, wear a seat belt, and on and on, ad nauseum, ad infinitum.
Shades of "Let Barabbas go!" in your scenario.
As for your commenter, I understand what Angie is saying, but I can't quite go there with her. Abortion involves another human being's fate, so it is not the same as other choices like smoking or wearing a seat belt. Murder is not a valid choice no matter the consequences to ourselves.
Amen! You KNOW I agree!
I had the same "Barabbas" thought as rosezilla pop into my head while reading this. What kind of world is this we're living in? Up is down, left is right, evil is good. Is this Superman's Bizarro World where everything is the opposite?!
(Excelling writing, as always. I couldn't agree more.)