It’s Called “Be Responsible” and “Self-Controlled”
"Being responsible" and "self-control" are not in a Leftist's vocabulary. But "selfishness" is.
Recently, a liberal college professor (are there any other kind since I retired?) testified before Congress about how abortion impacts women access to the economy. Abortion should be allowed so that it will not hinder a woman’s “ability to plan if and when to become a mother.” This is typical liberal gobbledygook and as deceptive as anything can be.
Abortion has nothing to do with a woman’s “ability to plan” when she wants to be a mother. If she doesn’t wish to be a mother at a certain point in her life, she has a very viable option—it’s called keeping her legs closed. She’ll never be a mother as long as she does that, and abortion has nothing to do with it.
But Leftism is about nothing if not about self-serving human pleasure. We live in a very godless, pleasure-oriented society now, and sex is a very substantial part of that. In fact, so much of what the Left advocates is based on sexual hedonism—abortion, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, pedophilia, transgenderism, child mutilation, pornography , feminism. It’s all about sex. These people are obsessed with it, and it is one of the major reasons they hate pure Christianity, which teaches that the sexual act is beautiful, but to be limited to a man and a woman who are lawfully married in God’s eyes. Such a couple can certainly “plan if and when” the wife wishes to become a mother. But that doesn’t fit with Leftism. Better to just kill the unborn life than have a man and woman be responsible and practice self-control and wisdom. Sex is all.
Self-control is not in a liberal’s vocabulary. Frankly, it isn’t in very many people’s vocabulary, liberal or conservative. Yet it is one of the “fruit of the Spirit” in Galatians 5 and so-called Christian graces in II Peter 1. It is also in Plato: “The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.” Very few people ever do it consistently, or even at all.
Abortion is an excuse for liberal women to practice as much godless sex as she wants without having to make responsible decisions or bear the consequences of her actions. It takes away a human life because of the selfishness of the mother. Abortion is, indeed, the most selfish act a human can commit.