08/25/2024
Imagine you said, “I am my own person. I have my body, I have my life. No one has a right to it. I shouldn't be told what to do. And so I'm not going to feed my kids or provide a house for them anymore.” And then your kids starve to death or die of exposure out in the cold. Everyone agrees that you should go to jail for that. Because everyone understands that, as a parent, you have a responsibility to your child that is unique. You don't have that kind of responsibility for anybody else.
If a child down the street tragically dies of starvation, exposure, or abuse, you don't go to jail for that. If you knew it was happening, you should try to do something about it, but you're not going to go to jail for that. Sadly, children are malnourished all over the world all the time and you're not criminally liable for any of that… but you are for your own child. Because society recognizes that you have a unique and special responsibility to your own child. And that responsibility comes before your ideas about your own rights. You do not have the right to *not* fulfill that responsibility.
We all say that about parents, and yet we want to carve out the special exception for children who aren’t born yet— in which case go ahead and kill them? This makes no sense. The argument for abortion is incoherent and completely indefensible.
*copied and pasted from Matt Walsh
