Pro-Life, Pro-Peace

Pro-Life and Pro-Peace commentary.

"Both the military ethic and the abortion ethic are grounded in the same belief: Life is cheap. Iraqi life. Fetal life. . . . The language of the war lobby and the abortion lobby is from the same glossary of evasions. No one likes war, say the generals. No one likes abortions, says NOW. But let's keep the killing option, just in case. And cases keep coming. If Iraqis are causing trouble, or Libyans, Grenadans or Panamanians, bomb them. If fetuses pose problems, destroy them."-Colman McCarthy

One does not have to know very much.. to see the moral absurdity upon which we have erected our sanctioned enterprises of violence. Abortion-as-birth-control is justified as a "right," which can establish itself only by denying all the rights of another person... Capital punishment sinks us all to the same level of primal belligerence, at which an act of violence is avenged by another act of violence." Wendell Berry

We are today a nation in which prenatal infanticide is legalized, where the death penalty is still the law, where preemptive war is acceptable foreign policy, and where Euthanasia is being flirted with. The human right to live is a natural right that doesn't disappear when the government tries to write it away. It is time for a coalition of Pro-Life and Pro-Peace thinkers to unite and create a society that respects the sanctity of human life.

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