"Simply put, the abortion industry is opposed to parental notice laws because parental notice laws place a hurdle between them and the profits from the abortion clients--not the girls who come to them but the adult men who pay for these abortions. These adult men, whose average age rises the younger the girl is, are eager not to be disclosed to parents, sometimes living down the street. . . . At nearly one million abortions per year, the abortion industry is as big as any corporate interest that lobbies in Washington. They not only ignore the rights of parents, they also protect sexual offenders and statutory rapists."
-Sen. Orrin Hatch
14 hours ago
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Hi Matt - I have been dancing around this post for a couple of days. I am not sure how to respond to it except for the fact that parents don't always protect their children from sexual offenders and statutory rapists so I think the problem actually starts there and not with the abortion. The problem starts with the lack of morals of the parents, and in particular the father, because that sets the tone for the family.
When it comes to tragic and lamentable realities like this, it seems to me that there’s always a background series of moral failures. There’s always a previous question, a prior sin (all the way back to Adam) that contributes to sins further down the chain. So while I think I understand what you’re saying, Olympiada, I don’t think it actually bears any relevance to the issue at hand in this quote. Does a situation like this bespeak a probable moral failure on the parts of the girl’s parents? Yes, likely it does. But this does not mean that the sins and moral failures of the conceiving parents are therefore effaced, nor the culpability of a society that blesses the secret (or not-so-secret) murder of children.
-Doug
Hi Doug, I just responded to a comment you made on Cracked Mirror. I guess you are not a blogger. "But this does not mean that the sins and moral failures of the conceiving parents are therefore effaced, nor the culpability of a society that blesses the secret (or not-so-secret) murder of children."
I do not understand what you mean here. Can you try to explain this another way?
Sure, Olympiada. And no, I'm not a blogger at present, just a reader, and I've read through your blog recently too.
I'll try to explain. I guess a red flag went up for me when you said that “parents don't always protect their children from sexual offenders and statutory rapists so I think the problem actually starts there and not with the abortion.”
While it’s certainly true that parents don’t always protect their children as they should --and we as parents will answer for our failures before God— moral failure on the part of parents does not erase the evil of abortion itself when it is indulged in by the children of sinful or imperfect parents (as we all are), nor does it exempt anyone from their responsibility to act rightly and, in this case, to refrain from acts which God condemns. Perhaps it wasn’t your intent to imply otherwise. But I find unsatisfying your statement that the “problem” here is not abortion but the moral failure of parents to protect their children. On the one hand, what you say is true: our sins and failures as parents DO have an impact on our children. On the other hand, abortion is also an evil in and of itself, and we as a society bear a responsibility to stand up against it, and not to bless or condone it by allowing the moral failures of parents or others to be carried to murderous lengths.
-Doug
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