Pair Of Docks
By Mitch Berg
The local chattering classes are tittering merrily; the guy who rammed his “SUV” (or was it a pickup truck?) into Saint Paul’s Baby Meat Mill Planned Parenthood Clinic was “mentally ill”:
Stop the murderers,” Matthew L. Derosia quoted Jesus as telling him, a criminal complaint said.Derosia, 32, who has a history of mental illness, faces two counts of first-degree criminal damage to property.
This blog does not endorse physical violence to curb infanticide. Why, had Derosia driven a bigger truck, the clinic might have been put out of action even longer. Why, who knows? Someone – say, the next person Jesus talks to – might drive a bulldozer or a tank. That’d really cause problems, wouldn’t it?
Still, I think it’s interesting; Planned Parenthood represents a movement that believes the only thing separating “life” and “unviability” is a four-inch trip down the birth canal – but we call Derosia “mentally ill”.
January 26th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Mitch:
“This blog does not endorse physical violence to curb infanticide.”
Why not? Perhaps because you don’t really believe it is infanticide.
January 26th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Perhaps, but you don’t really believe it is a choice either.
January 26th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Perhaps, but you have not given any evidence for that proposition.
January 26th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
The “proposition” that abortion is infanticide? After about 21 weeks, when the “fetus” is capable of surviving – and certainly in the whole third trimester, it is.
Some countries compromise; Germany and France allow abortion to weeks 7 and 9, respectively. Bad, to be sure, but both recognize that after a certain point, a “fetus” is to all intents and purposes a human that just needs some more incubation.
January 26th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Mitch:
In my third post I was, rather obviously, referring to Bada’s failure to produce evidence that I don’t believe abortion is a choice.
As for your post. Whatever, I have no interest in debating abortion with you. I am still interested in why “This blog does not endorse physical violence to curb infanticide”. Why not? You not a pacifist. Perhaps you are afraid of the legal consequences (ie going to jail), but that is just a prudential objection, not a moral one.