In Defense of Justifiable Homicide

Not so long ago, members of the abortion industry in the British Columbia,

particularly staff of Everywoman's Health Centre, brandished at a press conference a document signed by a number of US activists in defense of "justifiable homicide".

The presentation of the document was promoted as proof positive of an international conspiracy to eliminate abortion providers.

I first heard the term "justifiable homicide" at a meeting of the BC

Coalition for Abortion Clinics. An abortion rights activist got up and announced her support of abortion, also mentioned she believed the unborn child was human, then stated abortion was "justifiable

homicide."

It was only a few short years ago that I was involved in an abortion debate with the lovely folks from Planned Parenthood. It was a sociology class at our local college. The class consisted mostly of women, and they thanked me at the end and lamented how disappointed they were that the PP rep had only used slogans in her presentation, while I stuck to scientific evidence of life before birth.

They also conveyed something that frightened me. What was it you may ask? They did not disagree with my presentation, indeed they accepted the science, the proof, the evidence. But many of the students stated that although the fetus was a human being, it was still a woman's "choice."

I then proceeded to challenge them ... where they not, in effect, believers in the doctrine of "justifiable homicide", and would that not have disastrous effects on our culture and society ... believing that a member of the human race can be "justifiably" killed? A small

number of girls approached me after the class and thanked me for challenging them on their dangerous logic. Regrettably the majority left, embracing killing a human being in the name of "choice."

In keeping with this deadly logic, we now have such feminists as Naomi Wolf and Eileen McDonagh propagating the justifiable homicide doctrine to an accepting "pro-choice" crowd.

The latter has written a book entitled: "Breaking the Abortion Deadlock from Choice to Consent." I read the book the other night and was amazed at the number of leaders in the feminist movement now embracing the justifiable homicide doctrine.

Afraid they are loosing the battle, pro-abortion leaders are acknowledging what pro-lifers have been saying for decades ... that the fetus is a human being.

But then they take it a step further.

McDonagh writes: "Although the fetus is innocent of conscious intention and cannot control its behavior, it is not innocent of massively intruding on a woman's body and liberty. Far from being the slave that is sacrificed in an abortion, the fetus is the one that enslaves the woman when it imposes a wrongful pregnancy."

She also writes: "Abortion, therefore, is not comparable to a person's choice to take a vacation; rather, it is comparable to a person's right to use deadly force to stop his or her own kidnapping."

McDonagh continues throughout her justifiable homicide book to compare the unborn child as a rapist, kidnapper, one that use "brute force" - the list goes on and on. (why, one would think that women give birth to little Al Capones - all smoking a cigar!)

Sadly, if you ask the general public if they believe the unborn child is a human being, the majority will say yes. McDonagh and the other feminists are merely articulating where the majority of our society is today. We have so cheapened human life that something as

innocent as a baby must now be demonized as a criminal in order to justify its impending execution.

Like some televised gladiators match, society is now asked to give a thumbs up or down to a battle where a woman and a baby are slugging it out. The public relations odds are stacked against the woman, so the only way anyone will sleep at night, is to stigmatize, use character assassination and just basically lie about the opponent.

So the next time your local pro-abortion group holds a press conference in which a justifiable homicide document is presented, keep in mind that they themselves are the greatest promoters of the doctrine of justifiable homicide. You might even remind the media of that fact.