Nathan Sheets - Questions for the American Right to Life

I probably should write something that's relevant to the theme of this blog. That is, that child-killing is wrong. One thing I noted in an article this morning is that Alan Keyes, who is victoriously listed on the American Right to Life website that I blogged about two days ago as being against the "ineffective" Partial-Birth Abortion Ban is actually against a Human Life Amendment, which is pretty much the sole goal of ARTL, other than blasting the National Right to Life, that is.

I wonder if this will irritate the ARTL people. Having a quick conversation with one of them on friend Jill Stanek's blog (which I quickly ditched in favor of not going insane) I get the feeling that making basic, logical connections is not their m'etier. Attacking other pro-lifers is.

Question: Do parental consent laws directly kill babies?
My answer: No. In fact they will save a handful of babies now that parents are clued in. Without the law the baby will be killed a lot easier.
ATL Supporter's Answer: Actually, it's the law that kills the child.

This is literally what I've been told by an ATL supporter. This is not a joke. I'm beginning to think that the pro-choicers are right about pro-lifers' intelligences. (Italics designate sarcasm, S4C ladies!)

Another quote from a supporter of ATL:  "Incrementalism has never, and will never, save a single baby." That's quite a statement to make. NRLC has never (and will never!) save a single baby?

Perhaps I'm being a bit brazen in attributing this perplexing and dim stance on parental consent laws to the entire American Right to Life organization, but I doubt it. I've come across groups like this before, where their sole purpose is to attack Right to Life. Then when you start talking to them—and I'm not even a member of Right to Life, by the way—they attack you and say that your support for parental consent is what sticks the curette into the womb for dismemberment, not an ignorant teenaged mother and murderous abortionist. That's really going to endear me to your cause, guys!

I'm hoping that I can lay off the American Right to Life posts, because I do want to be able to support them if they can actually come up with legislation that won't bring us into another thirty years of Roe vs. Wade. I just wish they would stop insinuating that the rest of us aren't true pro-lifers. Heck, I'm apparently the only pro-lifer in the world that actually thinks mothers should be punished for getting abortions! It doesn't get much more die-hard than that!