Aug. 19, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Among many other things, the rise of Donald Trump has breathed new life into the tired excuses of Christians who insist that voting Democrat is in fact more “pro-life” than voting Republican.
I have been quite clear in the past that I believe Trump is a truly repulsive candidate. The extent and nature of his flaws have created a seemingly insoluble predicament for many principled Republican voters. However, these pro-Democrat Christians are claiming that the welfare state policies of the Democratic Party are in fact more “pro-life” than the more conservative policies of the Republican Party. These arguments are clearly ludicrous and serve only to further dehumanize pre-born children.
Stop and consider this for a moment: If you are pro-life, how could you ever justify supporting or identifying with a party that has relentlessly championed the right of one group of human beings—born ones—to kill another group of human beings—pre-born ones? Regardless of which Democratic policies you may be attracted to, to decide that the official endorsement of the destruction of a subgroup of the human family is not a deal-breaker reveals the fact that you have accepted the premise of the Democratic Party that pre-born children are less valuable than born children.
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Let’s put it this way: If it was not 3,000 pre-born human beings being tortured to death every day, but rather 3,000 born human beings, would you still justify voting for a party that officially endorsed this? Let’s say every day, 3,000 homeless people–“unwanted adults”–were marched into warehouses on the edges of major cities and summarily shot, one by one. Would you, in those circumstances, decide that voting for this party was the right thing to do because the social programs they promote were more “pro-life” than those of the party that condemned these daily executions?
Perhaps you think I’m being somewhat over-dramatic. If that is the case, you have accepted the underlying premise of the abortion worldview: That human beings inside the womb are not as valuable as those outside the womb. Their welfare can be sacrificed on the altar of your political ideology, because you do not think the endorsement of their destruction is an ample reason to vote against those who declare these human beings to be “not persons.” This is rather like voting for a candidate who believes that African Americans or Jews or women or aboriginals are not full human beings entitled to full protection under the law because said candidate has great plans to build a lot of soup kitchens. And of course, all of those groups were, at one time or another, not considered “persons” under the law, and as the result, all of those groups experienced institutionalized injustice.
The Democratic Party now functions as a vehicle for lethal and institutionalized age discrimination. As Hillary Clinton announced on NBC’s Meet the Press: “The unborn person doesn’t have any constitutional rights. Now that doesn’t mean that we don’t do everything we possibly can in the vast majority of instances to, you know, help a mother who is carrying a child and wants to make sure that child will be healthy, to have appropriate medical support.” You’ll notice that Clinton doesn’t even attempt to avail herself of the convenient fictions usually utilized by the abortion movement: the bizarre notion that the human being developing in the womb of his or her mother is “not a person” or “not a child.” She’s up front and brazen about it: the mother is carrying a child, that child is a person, and that person has no rights.
That is why I could never vote for the Democratic Party, regardless of whether or not I might agree with them on some other issues. That is why the Republican Party, regardless of what it gets wrong, still gets the most important and fundamental thing right: the essential truth that all human beings are entitled to human rights, regardless of race, gender, religion, or age. And that is why we must hope the Republican Party survives the smash-up of the Trump Train: because it’s the only political party at present that refuses to endorse and celebrate the killing of human beings.
It's really that simple.
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