Pro-lifers often draw parallels between the pro-abortion position, Nazi extermination of the Jews, and the Dred Scott vs. Sandford decision 1857, which ruled that black slaves were not fully human and therefore not protected under the U.S. Constitution. Of course, pro-abortionists gnash their teeth at such comparisons, but are they legitimate? Well, not only is it legitimate, it is an obvious comparison because of the common themes.
First, whether one is talking about the Third Reich, slave owners, or abortionists, the reality is that in order to take the life of the innocent, the innocent must be redefined as non-human, because without that redefinition they are undeniably human.
Second, while the quality that determines one’s humanness may change–race, color of skin, intelligence, or now with abortion, one’s size, dining habits, location, physical ability, intellectual prowess, etc.– what does not change is that those in power ascribe a relative quality to the definition of humanness, which slaves, Jews, mentally and physically handicapped, babies, elderly, etc. unfortunately do not possess.
Third, pro-abortionists elevate “the right of choice” of the powerful, which trumps “the right to life” of the weaker, and the outcome is ghastly barbarianism.
Therefore, the comparison is valid; moreover, if consistency prevails, as appalling as it may be to admit, those who are pro-abortion today would have supported slavery and the holocaust because each is based upon a quality of life morality rather than sanctity of life morality. Remember, at the time of WWII, thirty states had eugenics laws.
Once an individual rejects the truth that all human life is sacred, begins at conception, and therefore to be protected, he either wittingly or unwittingly betrays his own essential value of having been created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-27) and slithers into Darwinian animalism.
Is abortion murder? The answer is yes and no. Presently it is not “legally” murder, so no. But it is morally murder since the very definition of murder is the wanton taking of innocent human life. And if that little baby is not a human life, what kind of life is he? And at what magical moment does he become human? And who will decide what quality magically transforms him from an unnecessary appendage to a human life? And what if the next quality essential to be considered human is one that you, your parents, or your children do not possess? Quite Damoclean, wouldn’t you agree?
Francis Schaeffer said, “You can judge a society by how it treats its weakest members.”
