A Perverse Axiology
I saw an article on LifeSiteNews the other day about an abortionist who, in the midst of extracting the parts of an 18 week old baby she had just killed, felt her own 18 week old baby kick in her womb for the first time. She describes how tears just started to flow down her face. The whole article is about her admission of the violence of abortion and its negative impacts on abortionists. She mentions:
“serious emotional reactions that produced physiological symptoms, sleep disturbances (including disturbing dreams), effects on interpersonal relationships and moral anguish.”
If one only quickly skims the article he might leave with the impression that this is a confession of a repentant abortionist. It is not. Rather, the article, it seems to me, is an attempt to bring the suffering of abortionists into the public sphere in the vain hope that public expression of the truth of the violence of abortion will some how provide healing to those who continue in the destruction of unborn lives.
This article, it seems to me, is this doctor’s attempt to justify what she realizes at some pre-conscious level to be a grave moral transgression. However, it is more effective in revealing the tortuous thinking that our times have brought us. She relates an experience of running from a D&E abortion where she had just reassembled the parts of the baby she had dismembered, to another room in which she was trying to help save the life of a premature baby of the same age. She asked the question about the moral difference between the two situations, in which she said it would be unthinkable to do to the prematurely born baby what she had just done to the unborn one. Her answer was based upon the location of the baby and, “most importantly,” the hopes and wishes of the mother for the baby.
It is the mother’s will which determines whether it is legitimate to kill a child or not. Instructive also is that this doctor talks about the discord between her experiences of abortion and her chosen values:
“caught between pro-choice discourse that, while it reflects our values, does not accurately reflect the full extent of our experience of abortion and in fact contradicts an enormous part of it, and the anti-abortion discourse and imagery that may actually be more closely aligned to our experience but is based in values we do not share.”
This doctor’s axiology is very post-modern. It is the mother’s will that determines the status of the baby. It is this capriciously chosen value disconnected from a contradictory reality, even when that reality is confirmed by her own personal experience, that allows this tormented soul to justify continuing to destroy lives: those of the unborn, of the mother, pf the father, of their families, and of all of those involved in the abortion industry. This is indeed, a very perverse axiology and this is the value system of those who are trying to bring us “humane” healthcare reform. Be afraid…be very afraid…



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