The easiest way to push a point across is by an appeal to child welfare. The second easiest appeal is to numbers or mass suffering. It comes as a mystery, then, why unborn lives are a glaring exception to the rule.
Their low status has been emphasized lately by very public uses of these appeals. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made children, at large, a significant talking point during his Senate confirmation hearings. “We cannot live up to our role as an exemplary nation, as a moral authority around the world, when we’re writing off an entire generation of kids,” Kennedy argued.
The situation sounds much like abortion, but it refers to the chronic disease and obesity epidemic, which Kennedy touts as his primary concern. And it is a problem — one made all the more persuasive by the grand scale. Numbers hold weight, and unimaginable numbers put their gravity in perspective.
Yet, for some reason, human intuition vanishes when the context is abortion — or so it does for the non-pro-life majority of voters in the country. The same goes for embryo misuse and the many modern inventions related to it. “In vitro maturation,” for example, is marketed as a “less brutal alternative” to in vitro fertilization. Both, to be clear, employ some form of brutality: The outstanding victims, however, per proponents’ consensus, are the women who endure the procedure. To eschew IVF would mean to “free thousands of aspiring mothers from brutal protocols.”
At the very least, this goal provides some bittersweet hope: Human pain, in mass, does still inspire the public. It is why Kennedy appeals to the “generations,” why IVF advocates ensure fertility is known to be very common, and why historians constantly warn against genocides. And what makes suffering compelling but that it is intelligible to the human soul? For its part, the human soul makes its case merely by existing: As far as I know, we have not been able to create it ourselves, let alone separate from a human form.
Who knows why it is that an un-birthed soul holds so little weight despite all this. Certainly, part of it is corrupt entities and brainwashing machines, or Planned Parenthood and the Democratic Party. And the other half of the problem is hand in glove with the first: actual dehumanization efforts.
Financial motives have no little part in the obstinate refusal to recognize the unborn as humans. The Democratic Party advances its agenda through women’s rejection of motherhood, and Planned Parenthood profits off of both the end and the means. Abortion, at the level of millions upon millions, results in a market for fetal parts. As we know, there is proof of Planned Parenthood’s callous harvesting business.
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So, not only an obstinate but a contradictory dehumanization effort has made its way to the surface. That characteristic is why such appeals as the earlier ones to mass suffering and child welfare are serving only to bring the contradiction to light.
In other words, basic “informed consent” would do some good. This policy motivates Kennedy, and it brings pro-life causes closer to legislation. Kennedy should just keep doing what he is doing.