“Woman Overjoyed By Giant Uterine Parasite”

Pro-lifers (including myself obviously) often ask “what’s the difference between killing a baby when it’s in the womb and killing it when it isn’t?”.

The Onion has the answer. Of course, the article is a satire. But the truth is that many people do see the in-womb fetus as some sort of sub-human, alien life form (”It is just a ball of cells”).

Read the following pro-abortion arguments found on this forum and weep :

“I am for abortion in a case that the baby is sick and the parents can’t provide for the proper treatments/medications, in a situation of rape, or the mother is too young to have a baby( I believe you should be 18+). If for some reason a woman is having a girl and decides that she wanted a boy and gets an abortion i feel that is wrong because of the fact that every human being shall be treated the same and loved for who they are.”

“Abortion is bad like murder but w[h]at if a woman was raped and she became pregnant?? Put the baby up for adoption or make an abortion?? Adoption is really sad because sometimes the child will never know who their real parents are…”

“It’s a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body. Pro-life people often say that you shouldn’t have sex unless you’re willing to deal with the consequences. Well, abortion is a way of dealing with it. Don’t like abortions? Don’t have one.”

“I find it highly irritating how pro-lifers don’t seem to give a **** about the mother at all and only seem to care about the fetus, which is unwanted. And the people who say things like ‘well you shoudn’t have had sex’ make me want to scream.”

The person who wrote this last comment has a point, at least regarding the attention and compassion pro-lifers should have towards women who are considering an abortion. (Cf. this excellent First Things article).

And this one actually made me laugh:

“Isn’t it cute how pro-lifers have to make up statistics in order to get people to support their cause? If abortion was really so evil, wouldn’t the actual facts be compelling enough on their own?”

Saint Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa Theologica (II ii, Q.15 art. 3), offers the only reason I can fathom for why most people don’t see abortion for the evil it is : sin makes you stupid.

(If you’re a sinner, you know what Aquinas says is true. If you don’t consider yourself a sinner, then it’s definitely true).