Either everyone matters or they don’t: A fundamental divide
The great apologist G. K. Chesterton once wrote, “All men matter. You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing in theology to believe.”
Rob Renfroe took Chesterton’s observation and concluded, “And that God—the God who is big enough to speak all of that [just the part of the universe we know about] into existence and hold it in the palm of his hand—says you matter to him. He says I matter to him.”
Regardless of what so many anti-life Legislators—all in Congress and almost all in state legislatures—believe, that also applies to unborn babies who survive abortions.
Could there be anything that more fundamentally separates pro-life and anti-life forces than their positions on this bedrock conviction–that every life matters?
The insidious idea that some lives are disposable, based on some sort of sliding scale, whether that is “wantedness” or “quality of life” or anything else equally arbitrary is anathema to pro-lifers.
Should we expect anything else from our benighted opposition? No, tragically. When you even introduce the principle of the universal equality of all human beings, the pro-abortion mind experiences a kind of brain freeze.
Their default position includes (but is not limited to)….
there are SO many people in the world (a canard that is far less impressive now that many nations are approaching negative population growth);
people, including youngsters, die from accidents (as if deliberating taking a life and inadvertently taking a life are two sides of the same coin);
this is merely/only/just a “religious” tenet (as if anything any position that originates from, or draws additional strength from, a religious impulse, is automatically suspect), etc., etc., etc.
Our unyielding belief that ‘every single life matters’ means that pro-lifers are immune to the eugenic temptation which rears its ugly head in many guises.
However, when initiatives such as the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, House and Senate (Anti-Life) Legislators prove over and over again that they are not immune. To anti-Life Legislators, babies who survive the abortionist’s best attempts to kill her or him are on their own.