I heard the horn, saw the driver signalling me to lower my window, and thought I was in for a confrontation. My window dropped, ready for trouble, but he pointed to the rear of my car, calling attention to my bumper sticker: “ANOTHER LIBERAL AGAINST ABORTION!!” He yelled, “I’m the other one!!”
Among those calling themselves “liberal” in today’s world, he and I are indeed pretty much on our own. That is because we are liberal and they ain’t. They’ll call us “anti-choice” although we are the ones defending the now witnessed (via sonogram) choice of babies in the womb to try and avoid the abortionist’s fatal tool. Being truly “liberal” in fact has everything to do with being truly pro-choice, meaning everybody’s choice, including the unborn. Being in favor of the “right” of one person to choose to remove a lifetime of choices from another is about as anti-choice, anti-liberal, as one can get. Advocates of that are in fact, “illiberal”, and aptly categorized socially as “Illiberals.”
As matter of logic, someone who is truly philosophically liberal, and who sees no human life being terminated in an abortion, would certainly have to support a woman’s right to choose abortion. But, the perception of “no human life” in a pregnant human womb, based essentially on a real estate principle: — location, location, location — suggests cognitive impairment, whether ideological or biological in basis. Continue reading