{"id":410,"date":"2008-11-10T08:24:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T08:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=410"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:18:06","slug":"abortion-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"Abortion comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in July we published excerpts and a link to this superb essay  "One women's journey from pro-choice atheist to pro-life Catholic"<\/font><\/a> which was published in America<\/em><\/strong> magazine.<\/p>\n

The author, Jennifer Fulwiler, has a really excellent weblog and this morning posted this Conversion Diary: Abortion and Holocaust comparisons – The diary of a former atheist<\/font><\/a> . Besides being a fine posting in it's own right – Jennifer is a wonderful writer – there are numerous valuable links. <\/p>\n

With this soon to happen, LifeNet: Obama administration to immediately reverse Bush pro-life policies<\/font><\/a> and abortion to be treated as the moral equivalent of trimming your fingernails, it's important for all of us to study and re-read essays and postings like those of Jennifer Fulwiler.<\/p>\n

Here is an excerpt from her posting we have linked to, and to repeat, she has numerous valuable links to bring home her points:<\/p>\n

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The injustice I sensed in the comparison was that the victims of the Holocaust experienced a level of suffering that is unparalleled in the human experience, a kind of suffering that no unborn baby, even the victims of late-term abortions, would or could ever know. During the Nazi reign mothers had toddlers torn from their arms to be sent to their deaths or, perhaps worse, walked hand-in-hand with their children into gas chambers. Millions of people were yanked from their homes, shoved into cattle cars, then starved, shot, gassed, and subjected to sick medical experiments — and they all knew it was coming.<\/p>\n

Ever since I learned about the events of the Nazi Holocaust in grade school not a week has gone by that I don't think of its victims and feel a little queasy to imagine what they went thorough. To minimize the horror that took place there is unconscionable, and I detest loose comparisons to the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

One thing that has surprised me, then, as I've researched the pro-life position further, is that I do see a critical similarity between abortion and the Holocaust. To be very clear, I do not think it's the same thing. I do not think that they are directly analogous in every way. But I do think that both scourges are born of the same seed, and that it is not only appropriate but important to highlight what that is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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