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November 17, 2022

Five propositions supporting abortion rights were on the midterm ballots, and four won. Psychologically speaking, though, what exactly are abortion rights? They are policies designed to relieve the mental panic men and women feel when they are forced to become responsible for themselves and someone other than themselves. They seek the right to avoid an end to being central to their own lives, along with the forced injection of chaos.

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I believe that “rights” are God-given, but those who demand unlimited abortion do not agree. Their angry demonstrations suggest that those making the demands believe only in themselves and their needs. Fetuses and babies, who don’t vote and hold no positions of power and influence, are becoming subject to arbitrary dismantling by their parents. Unfortunately, the rights of the unborn or recently born do not have a legal leg to stand on.

What’s ironic, of course, is how many of those who support abortion are probably vegans, with even more of them against the death penalty. However, today logic is flexible or optional.

But demanding the right to abortion has bigger societal implications. Those who seek abortion rights must intuit that this demand will lead ineluctably to society’s right to eliminate old people through euthanasia. If guided by the same self-focused needs that guide abortion, they’ll agree to euthanasia when Mom has become too expensive, too irritating, too depressing, too distant and, thankfully, just too sick. She’s impeding the national good so, despite sweet memories, she deserves only the consideration a fetus receives.

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Eventually, the same eliminationist ideology to unborn and elderly lives can extend to others who hold the wrong views, impeding progress. Cancel and woke cultures remove people’s worth by making it impossible to earn a wage, travel, pay for goods, or raise a family. Bad thoughts voiced aloud justify vaporizing individuals or even encouraging them to seek euthanasia themselves.

The Bible says, “There is nothing new under the sun,” and all these manifestations of modern pro-abortion culture are old permutations of previous cultural patterns. Lloyd DeMause, a psycho-historian, researched late 19th-century German family life and concluded it was so vile (my word) it made the Holocaust inevitable. In The Emotional Life of Nations, DeMause presents research gleaned from German diary analyses. His conclusions are shocking:

…A comparison by Maynes of 90 German and French autobiographies of late nineteenth-century working class childhoods found German[s] far more brutal and unloving, with the typical memory of home being that “No bright moment, no sunbeam, no hint of a comfortable home where motherly love and care could shape my childhood was ever known to me.

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German family maxims described the lack of love of mothers toward their children, saying tenderness was “generally not part of the mother’s character…Just as she kept her children…short on food and clothing, she also was short on fondling and tenderness…[feeling] the children should…regard themselves as useless weeds and be grateful that they were tolerated.

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