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Man Tricks Girlfriend Into Taking Abortion Pill, But Why The Murder Charge?
So this guy is charged with murder for allegedly tricking his girlfriend into taking an abortion pill. He apparently switched the pills inside her bottle of prescription drug with the abortion pills after she refused to abort the baby at his insistence. My question is why the murder charge? If the fetus is not viable in the eyes of the court in the case of an abortion with a consenting woman, what changes it to viable in the case of a non-consenting woman?
My point: it’s either a human being, or it isn’t. The differentiation between whether the woman wants the child or not doesn’t change the fact that it is a living person being destroyed in the most inhumane way. Why else would Kermit Gosnell have to sever the spines of abortion survivors or shove their bodies into jars of poison if they were not living?!
These morbid scenarios occur largely because we have allowed them to. Premarital sex has become the norm, and with it abortion as it destroys 1/3 of children born in the United States. The outrage regarding these crimes has been stifled by a willfully silent media, and a largely uninterested public. How long will the atrocity of human sacrifice to the god of convenience to continue? As long as we let it.
Read the full story here.
Inhuman: Undercover in America’s Late-Term Abortion Industry
Gregory Hicks’ 30 Minute Recount of Benghazi Attack
4 Things I Learned from the Benghazi Hearing
So these are the 4 things I learned from watching the Benghazi hearing.
1. Ambassador Stevens called former deputy chief of mission in Libya Gregory Hicks saying that the Embassy was “under attack” just before the cell phone call was disrupted.
2. Ambassador Stevens was taken to an enemy hospital.
3. The crime scene was not secured and the FBI was not allowed to go in for 17 days. This was the direct result of UN Ambassador from the US Susan Rice and her statement that the attack was actually a protest over an anti-Muslim YouTube video. She essentially called the president of Libya a liar for calling the incident a terror attack, embarrassing and infuriating him.
4. Lieutenant Colonel Gibson is the man that knows who gave the order to stand down during the attack.
An AWESOME Story
Once upon a time there was an 80s Christian rock band called Whiteheart. During their early years, the band members struggled to find a lead singer. One guy quit, another just didn’t fit, still another backslid, and so on. At the end of a tumultuous four years they started giving auditions again. Then one day they found their tour bus driver singing and dancing to one of their songs. His name was Rick Florian.
(Whiteheart’s most successful albums were produced with Florian as the lead singer. Be sure to take a listen here.)
Why Should We Care About the Declaration of Independence?
The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important founding documents of the United States. However, in modern days it becomes overlooked–why should we care about the complaints of some colonists over 200 years ago against a king long dead? What I have come to realize is that the Declaration is the heart and soul of the United States; it defines it’s purpose as a whole.
Thomas Jefferson said that the purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to express and justify the position of independence that the colonies were taking against the British government. It acknowledges the fact that human beings have certain “unalienable rights” simply by being born, from “nature and nature’s God.” This is the foundation of the Unites States–the idea that the rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness [property]” are inherent to the people that can neither be given or taken away by the government.
The best way to look at the Declaration of Independence is in the context put by Abraham Lincoln. He called the principle “Liberty to all”, embodied by the Declaration, the “apple of gold.” He also called the Constitution the “frame of silver.” Lincoln said that the frame of silver (the Constitution) was made to “adorn” and “preserve” the “apple of gold” (the principle “Liberty to all”). The frame is not to take precedence over the apple, but exists to perpetuate the existence of the apple.
Ultimately, the reason that the Constitution is so easily being dismantled, is because we have forgotten what its purpose is: to protect and preserve the principle “Liberty to all.” The Declaration of Independence is still crucially important to American society because it reminds us of the principles that define the United States and gives us a sense of urgency to uphold its constitution.
How Liberals Argue
The way liberals argue about gun control is to refer to the gun, not the person, as the criminal. This gives them emotional license to regulate and ban guns or magazines however they want, because anyone in favor of the gun rights is therefore in favor of the criminal. This tactic of demonizing and disregarding a political argument is designed to effectively shut down all opposition to liberal perspectives on the issues. If you identify, for example, the conservative position with the criminal’s position, you’ll never even consider their argument for fear you’ll be identified with the criminal.
This is similar to the gay marriage argument. Liberals refer to gay marriage as a civil right, therefore by that definition if you are against gay marriage you are against a civil right. This again gives them license to treat you and your arguments as bigoted, subhuman, and not deserving of any kind of respect or consideration. This results–intentionally–in scaring away all who might consider the position against gay marriage, but fear to be identified with an idea that is associated with a heinous social sin.
So how do you successfully debate with someone using this kind of tactic? Conservatives have to define the issue right from the beginning. Guns do not commit crimes, people do. Therefore, the argument for gun rights is not to be associated with the side of the criminal. Likewise, gay marriage is not a civil right, it is a lifestyle choice. Therefore, to be against the gay lifestyle is no more heinous than being against any other lifestyle such as that of a smoker or a vegetarian. Conservatives need to redefine the premise in order to win the argument, otherwise real political debates will cease to exist.
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