"You are pro-birth, but not pro-life." So this is something I've been seeing recently with the debate over abortion. The idea is that if I as a Pro-Lifer don't support big government welfare and healthcare policies, then I am only pro-birth of babies. They say I don't care about what happens after a baby is born. This argument is usually followed up with the argument that if we outlaw abortion there will be thousand of unwanted children in orphanages that I will not support with government policies. I have two big issues with these arguments.
1. Just because I don't support bad welfare and healthcare policies by Democrats, Liberals, and Socialists doesn't mean I don't support good policies that involves smaller government solutions working with the free market and private charity. Our current welfare system keeps people poor and breaks up families. Thanks to our current system 70% of black babies are born in homes without fathers. This is the problem with the left. They say unless you support their policies, then you are evil and hate the poor. But the fact of the matter is I just think the government has wasted trillions of dollar on bad welfare policies. The federal government spends a little over $750 billion on welfare every year. That is about 18% of the budget. About 52 million Americans get some form of welfare. That means we spend on average $14,500 per welfare recipient. A family of 4 could get $58,000 a year in welfare benefits. I'm not saying that is how much people get. You see most of the money goes to all the programs and administrative costs to run those programs. Billions are lost in waste, fraud, and abuse. And that number doesn't count the millions and billions spent by state governments, local governments, and private charities. And that is the rub. I think we could do better. There is already enough money in America to take care of the poor, but not by using the same broken policies and socialist solutions that make people dependent on government. Socialist policies have done more to hurt the poor, just look at Venezuela. My lack of support for your big government policiesdoesn't make it heartless. It just means I have different ideas on how to help the poor including children.
2. This is the one that really frightens me. The idea that if we don't have abortion, then there will be thousands or millions of unwanted children. The underlying idea here is that death is better than poverty. That instead of allowing a baby the chance at life, it would be better to kill it than allow it to live in poverty. This comcept says that some lives have no value. This is the philosophy of the Nazis or actually the philosophy of Planned Parenthood. Read the words of their founder Margaret Sanger.
"The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
“I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world, that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically... Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they’re born. That to me is the greatest sin—that people can—can commit.”
"We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population..."
The biggest population of babies aborted by Planned Parenthood are black babies.
When we have the belief system that unwanted children would have been better off being aborted, then what keeps us from talking about getting rid of unwanted adults like the homeless, disabled, or the elderly? Is the value of a human life determined by if they are useful or wanted. When does God give a human its soul? Is it at creation, the first heartbeat, once it has left the womb, or when it knows right from wrong? The question is when does a human have value? I believe a human has value at the beginning of life.
