Pro-life rhetoric is in the news right now, since a deranged man went on a shooting spree inside a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic. Some on the Left would impute this killerâ??s actions to the rhetoric of pro-life organizations, especially about the horrifying revelations about Planned Parenthood that have come out over the past year. This is a wrongheaded and deceptive tactic, but it just might spur us to think about just what our speech should be as we think about abortion.
The Left is right, of course, that pro-life (or any other kind of) rhetoric should never dehumanize or encourage violence against anyone. Murdering people, including abortion facility personnel, is itself a manifestation of the culture of death. This sort of gun violence is immoral, criminal, and is condemned by God. And, of course, mainstream pro-life speech doesnâ??t do anything of the sort.
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