American Right to Life Continues to Save Babies...Oops, I Mean Attack Other Pro-Lifers
Brian Rohrbough, president of the new pro-life organization American Right to Life has recently issued a "Media Advisory". As I suspected from the inception of this new organization, ARL is going to be spending a lot of time criticizing National Right to Life.
It’s interesting to note, first of all, that when you go to the American Right to Life website you’ll find many cross words with NRLC but little explaining the “better” way to be pro-life. NRLC is constantly denounced by ARL as being worse than pro-choicers themselves, but yet the solutions to the “failed” stratagem of NRLC is no where to be found on the ARL website.
Oh wait, unless you want to pay $15, that is. That’s right: on the “Strategy” page which I eagerly clicked on in order to find out how ARL plans on ending abortion in twelve years very quickly blasts the “immoral” strategy of the National Right to Life and then tells us that we have to order a DVD in order to find out how we can stop being immoral. It's like those late night infomercials that promise us a way to earn one hundred-grand with minimal work...and we only need to buy a program to find out how!
I’m all for denouncing, by the way. Go ahead: attack the National Right to Life, call them baby-killing accomplices-but at the very least show us how to do things the right way without charging us money. It’s for the children, after all.
ARL peeps seem to think that should Roe vs. Wade become overturned and the choices of abortion finally go back to the states, NRLC will simply cease to be an organization. Ah yes, come the glorious day of the repeal of Roe vs. Wade they’ll brush off their hands, pack up their Washington DC office and go back home. ARL seems to think that the most important thing for the people at NRLC is to be all Libertarian about abortion and return power to the states, case closed.
And I’m not saying that National Right to Life is perfect-they aren’t. But I fail to see how creating an organization that will, over time, raise thousands of dollars for the sole purpose of attacking National Right to Life helps anything. That’s what American Right to Life is. Well, at least that’s all I can tell that they do via their webpage without paying $15 for the “strategy” that will end abortion in 12 years.
While it certainly is possible that American Right to Life will pass some kind of personhood bill in some small, conservative state, the fact remains that it will have to make its way up to the Supreme Court. And such a bill will be struck down by the Supreme Court. This is the realistic reality right now. We must continue to pray for God to touch the hearts of the people of this wicked nation, and He surely will do so. But 1) He will not force morality into their hearts, 2) abortion is the root of a greater spiritual problem and 3) we should be doing what we can and be at least trying to save some of the children. This is a point that ARL refuses to address.
ARL would rather 1.5 million children all be slaughtered than save, say, half of them. They have the position that it is unacceptable for even one child to die (which is a correct position) and that no children should be saved unless they all can be saved (which is a morally reprehensible position).
The ultimate goal of the ARL is to pass a Personhood Amendment. These days an Amendment is very, very hard to pass, requiring three-fourths of the States to ratify it. Yes, if abortion ever becomes viewed as slavery is now viewed, it may be easier, but it should be noted that that’s not how abortion is viewed. Should we go to war over the issue as we did with slavery? Maybe, but you’ll have to order the DVD to find out!
It’s interesting to note, first of all, that when you go to the American Right to Life website you’ll find many cross words with NRLC but little explaining the “better” way to be pro-life. NRLC is constantly denounced by ARL as being worse than pro-choicers themselves, but yet the solutions to the “failed” stratagem of NRLC is no where to be found on the ARL website.
Oh wait, unless you want to pay $15, that is. That’s right: on the “Strategy” page which I eagerly clicked on in order to find out how ARL plans on ending abortion in twelve years very quickly blasts the “immoral” strategy of the National Right to Life and then tells us that we have to order a DVD in order to find out how we can stop being immoral. It's like those late night infomercials that promise us a way to earn one hundred-grand with minimal work...and we only need to buy a program to find out how!
I’m all for denouncing, by the way. Go ahead: attack the National Right to Life, call them baby-killing accomplices-but at the very least show us how to do things the right way without charging us money. It’s for the children, after all.
ARL peeps seem to think that should Roe vs. Wade become overturned and the choices of abortion finally go back to the states, NRLC will simply cease to be an organization. Ah yes, come the glorious day of the repeal of Roe vs. Wade they’ll brush off their hands, pack up their Washington DC office and go back home. ARL seems to think that the most important thing for the people at NRLC is to be all Libertarian about abortion and return power to the states, case closed.
And I’m not saying that National Right to Life is perfect-they aren’t. But I fail to see how creating an organization that will, over time, raise thousands of dollars for the sole purpose of attacking National Right to Life helps anything. That’s what American Right to Life is. Well, at least that’s all I can tell that they do via their webpage without paying $15 for the “strategy” that will end abortion in 12 years.
While it certainly is possible that American Right to Life will pass some kind of personhood bill in some small, conservative state, the fact remains that it will have to make its way up to the Supreme Court. And such a bill will be struck down by the Supreme Court. This is the realistic reality right now. We must continue to pray for God to touch the hearts of the people of this wicked nation, and He surely will do so. But 1) He will not force morality into their hearts, 2) abortion is the root of a greater spiritual problem and 3) we should be doing what we can and be at least trying to save some of the children. This is a point that ARL refuses to address.
ARL would rather 1.5 million children all be slaughtered than save, say, half of them. They have the position that it is unacceptable for even one child to die (which is a correct position) and that no children should be saved unless they all can be saved (which is a morally reprehensible position).
The ultimate goal of the ARL is to pass a Personhood Amendment. These days an Amendment is very, very hard to pass, requiring three-fourths of the States to ratify it. Yes, if abortion ever becomes viewed as slavery is now viewed, it may be easier, but it should be noted that that’s not how abortion is viewed. Should we go to war over the issue as we did with slavery? Maybe, but you’ll have to order the DVD to find out!