“Something’s fishy”
February 13, 2008
If you’re not reading ProWomanProLife, O Reader, you’re missing out. Case in point:
I once read that abortion was the right to kill in order to protect the right to copulate. Since then, I have never ceased to be amazed at the lengths we are willing to go to protect these “rights.”
Case in point: We worry more about the effect of estrogen from contraceptive pills on the smallmouth bass of the Potomac river than on the women who take it daily.
Would that women’s hormonal health was as significant as that of the smallmouth bass of the Potomac watershed.
One possible response to the above is that, quite simply, we value the lives and well-being of other (non-human) animals more than we value the lives and well-being of other human beings. After all, it would be a terrible thing if all the smallmouth bass went extinct. Equally, it would be a terrible thing if, for whatever reason, men and women started taking responsibility for their own sexuality, or started acting with moral reasoning in regard to said same. That might imply that they were something more than animals, and that there was something more relevant to our moral decision making than raw desire and animal instinct…and in our secular world, we wouldn’t want people thinking like that! Besides, we have to save the smallmouth bass!
