What Cecil the lion can teach us about abortion

We, as a species, are not all that likeable and certainly not, in any sense, magnificent. Instead, each one of us is a lowly creature. Even the intellectual giants that humanity has produced and enshrined have been merely human, with as many debauched desires, weaknesses, and faults as any man or woman of the street. We grovel and beg, we kill and steal, we laugh at horrors and use each other for personal gain. Man attends to religion to try to save humanity from itself. None of us is innocent, and we spend our lives trying to reconcile and rationalize our guilt.

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Then, there is the child. The life that is not yet morally culpable; which, interestingly enough, has been used as an excuse for why we should permit unrestricted abortion. It is the argument that the baby cannot be considered a human life because it is not morally culpable or fully conscious of its being.

It is during this period of true and pure innocence when humanity is precisely at its most magnificent. It is the only point in any life where innocence and magnificence are both contained within one tiny little acorn. For humanity, innocence and magnificence are one in the same. Many attempt to turn a blind eye from the acorn in the womb, but only because we can ignore it then. At that size, a child’s own mother may not even want it, and we hide this gruesome reality behind sterile euphemisms, whereas a walking, talking, sleeping child that is burned to death in his home cannot be so readily ignored (though surely, some may try).

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