Let me pose a hypothetical.
I'm the father of three elementary-aged children. After serious deliberation and consultation with my wife, we have decided we simply don't have the time, energy, resources, or desire to continue raising them. I have made the difficult decision to execute all three kids unless you, the reader, are willing to adopt them and take on all the responsibilities – physical, financial, and emotional – associated with their upbringing.
Here is my question: If you do not agree to adopt them, am I then justified to kill them?
Or is the rightness/wrongness of my hypothetical decision to kill my own children completely and utterly independent of your willingness to absorb full responsibility of raising them?
No, this is not a trick question. And no, it is not an answer that any sane person would think twice about. While it would be nice for you to open your home to my children, in no way are you precluded from condemning their murder if you don't. There is no one, right or left, who can or would raise any legitimate objection to that obvious conclusion.
Which is why this sophistry that continues to surface in our society's ongoing human rights debate over feticide is so obnoxiously juvenile and unhelpful.
For the record, I do not know who Nick Solomon is, and there are plenty of other misguided souls who espouse this same view, believing that they are making some kind of profound contribution to the debate. But personally, I am always more than just a little creeped out when young men without any apparent moral center begin railing about the necessity of abortion.
These are the kinds of superficial and desperate protestations you hear coming from men who use and abuse women, and rely on legal abortion to cover their tracks and preserve their depraved lifestyle. Seeing it in print, liked by his peers, is all more than a little gross.
To answer Nick's question, the plan is what it has always been. It is what pro-lifers have been doing for decades and continue doing this very hour. It is adoption. It is a substantial investment in expanding and improving the foster care system. It is the expansion of donation-driven, pregnancy resource centers – the ones that provide food, shelter, medical treatment and referrals, baby formula, diapers, parenting classes, mentorship programs, babysitting services, STD/STI treatment, breastfeeding consultations, pap tests, and a million other life-affirming activities every day.
While men like Nick continue advancing the horrifying premise that the solution to poverty, unwantedness, and other social problems is to just kill more kids, pro-life Christians have been building nearly five of these miracle centers to every one Planned Parenthood abortion factory.
In other words, the burning question really isn't for pro-lifers. We all know what they are going to do if abortion becomes an illegal act. They'll keep caring for the mother, father, and the baby.
The real question is for people like Nick Solomon. If our society puts an end to exterminating the "unwanted humans" from our midst, what are you going to do to help, Nick? If the problem of unintended pregnancy occurs, and abortion isn't there as a discrete, cheap way to avoid responsibility, will you and your fellow-travelers do the hard work of actually caring for your fellow man?
Imagine for a second what could happen if all the Nick Solomons around the country would pitch in with pro-lifers to fund a pro-active, pro-woman, pro-child movement. Imagine if Planned Parenthood would pitch in to help these women raise their babies instead of killing them for profit. Imagine if the tax dollars that are flowing to the abortion giant were redirected towards organizations actually doing the hard work of living with, and loving on scared single moms instead of those willing to thoughtlessly provide her some deadly pills for a simple swipe of her credit card.
Think of all the good that could be accomplished.
So what do you say Nick? Will you and your brethren join us in caring and working towards a better day for women and babies?
