Of course this has been a hot topic since the latest laws coming out of Georgia and Alabama. However, may people have argued that it is wrong to "force a rape victim to carry a baby to term" and that it is up to the victim to decide if the baby should die. All the pictures below are children of rape victims. Well, if the mother can determine the value of the life of her child and she decides that these children are worthless and don't deserve to live, are we supposed to do the same? Why or why not? Would you look these children in the eye and tell them they are worthless because their mother believes so? If not, why would their value be any different before they were born?
When people have dehumanized and devalued other people, the very worst atrocities of human history have occurred. Chief among these atrocities is the horrendous number of unborn children who have been murdered by abortion. It's so much easier to destroy a human life when it is just "tissue," and when it has been labeled a foetus rather than a child or baby, and when it is cast as an interloper, a parasitic thing, that threatens the well-being of a woman. The Nazis did this sort of thing. They dehumanized all sorts of people, stripping them of their intrinsic value as creations of God, labeling them as lesser creatures and corrupting influences, and then murdering them by the millions. Stalin did the same. When a pregnant mother, then, begins to devalue her unborn child, stripping her baby of its intrinsic value as a creation of God, thinking of it as a tumor or parasite, she becomes a kind of Nazi in her thinking, Stalin-esque in her dehumanizing of her baby, and will shortly blossom into a fully-fledged child-killer.
Oh, but the unwanted baby not torn to bits in an abortionist's clinic will be born into misery, rejected and alone, left to the cruel care of the government and foster homes. Surely, if this is their future prospect, being cut to pieces with a pair of scissors and sucked through a hose and deposited in a sink to be sold like a pork chop in a butcher's shop to some lab somewhere is an obvious kindness. But wait. What about all the homeless out there? They are living lives of misery, too! They are often alone, and addicted, and despairing. Society has rejected them. They live parasitically upon a culture, contributing nothing of value. Shouldn't they be killed, too, then? Wouldn't we be doing the homeless person a kindness by killing him, just as is done to the unwanted unborn baby when it is ripped to bits?