Abortion: the egregious slaughter of the innocent
We generally agree, as humans, that human life is sacrosanct. It is one of the greatest cultural condemnations we can deliver, that 'human life has no value'. Yet abortion does precisely that: it places the value of human life at zero.
According to a report by Worldometer, a reference website, about 40-50 million abortions are performed worldwide each year, which works out to be about 125,000 abortions every single day. Abortion is the single biggest cause of human death. This figure comes from the WHO. Anyone who is not disgusted by that statistic should be ashamed.
Religion on Abortion
There are many theological arguments against abortion and these are conclusive, within their own terms. The Catholic Church's position is clear:
'Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.
From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person -- among which is the inviolable right of e
This reminds me of the Catholic Hungarian philosopher Aurel Kolnai in his criticism of humanism when he argues that the religion of humanity doesn’t consider human life itself as sacred, but only the “here and now”, only those that are here right now and can enjoy this life really matters , the body is the limit and is all that counts, there is no divine spark or soul. When you look at life from that point of view everything that stands in the way of the immediate fruition of pleasure and the pursuit of happiness and that cannot look after itself without help is not only an obstacle but also a violation of the “sacredness” of your self-determination and individual liberty , and therefore every barbarity such as euthanasia and abortion can be justified as Kolnai predicted that it would be, not even the future matters to these people.
Michel houellebecq is another author that although proclaims himself as agnostic profoundly criticizes the modern world amoral turn. In his books ( particularly in his novels “the possibility of an island” and “the map and the territory”) “the absence of God” manifests itself in the analysis of a rapidly decaying western civilization whose only objective is the sacrifice of every societal bond for the sake of the satisfaction of the individual most basic and primitive instincts. Physical love ( which is all that holds significance for most of the characters in michel houellebecq dystopian world of materialist horror ) criteria (youth , beauty and strength ) are in fact the values of Nazism as houellebecq recognizes… As he said “We live in a society of nazis” and in such a place the unborn and the old have no use , neither do they deserve love or anything else. I wouldn’t be surprised if in the future this also applies to the sick and the weak.
Thanks for this comment. I am a little familiar with Houllebecq but not really very much so. Kolnai, yes and I agree with him. The ultimate end of Humanism is inhumanity.