I'm sure this post will delight some of you and really offend some of you. Fellow libertarians are always either pleased to learn that I'm quite pro-life, or very disappointed in me.(If you'd like to know why I am pro-life, this is the best, most rational defense of the pro-life position I've ever read-- yeah I wrote it too: so much for humility.)
Now I'm going to do something else waaay out of the ordinary and share with you an excerpt from a transcript of Rush Limbaugh's radio program yesterday. His commentary, while entertaining as usual, was also spot on:
"Some of the hosts of the cable news shows, you know, what I don't understand about it is they're all card-carrying liberals. When does the death of a child bother them? I've never seen them get so upset over the death of a child. If the child had died, what, two years earlier in the womb, this woman would be a star, she'd be a hero, and, folks, I don't think that's cliche to say. And I don't think it's a cheap attempt at humor. I think that while it may be uncomfortable to hear, one of the reasons it's uncomfortable to hear is that there is an element of truth in it. You people in the media, if you really, really think she's guilty and you want to feel better about this, just tell yourselves that she just waited a couple years to get an abortion and you'll feel better. You're feeling uncomfortable, right?
Even Snerdley winced a little bit at that. Why did you wince, Snerdley? It's brutal to hear. Exactly right. It's brutal to hear. So is abortion. Abortion is brutal, never characterized that way. And the reason it's brutal is because there's an element of truth in it. I just wanted to put it out there."
If it's still a human being in the womb, and I believe that I argue compellingly that it is, then Limbaugh is absolutely correct. All this media fuss over a woman killing her child and meanwhile it happens every day and the media is only outraged when taxpayers with a conscience just want to stop paying for it.
Wes Messamore,
Editor in Chief, THL
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