This whole attack on Planned Parenthood has me in a quandary. Personally, I don’t like abortions. I would very much like, in this imperfect world, to see abortions a thing of the past. However, I question the logic of the actions of some people who share my feelings.
How can you claim to want to save lives, then take lives (physically and/or emotionally) by bombing, shooting up, or setting fire to Planned Parenthood clinics? How can you destroy the lives of medical staff who have nothing to do with abortions as they serve poorer women’s basic health needs (e.g., exams and mammograms)? Without health care, these women are in danger of sickness and death. For that matter, how can you endanger the lives of the very unborn babies you’re trying to save? You never know for sure if a pregnant woman is present, not for an abortion but for prenatal care that she couldn’t afford to get elsewhere? How much control do you have over the bomb fragments and debris or the bullets you shoot off–enough to be sure a person just walking past the facility or police officer doing his or her job isn’t maimed or killed?
I just don’t get how those lives are any less innocent or worthwhile than the unborn life you want to save by violently attacking an entire clinic. Isn’t all life sacred? It should be.