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\u201cEVERY CHILD A WANTED CHILD\u201d: <\/strong>Ever since I became pro-life (1997-ish), I\u2019ve thought that was a particularly eerie slogan. If you\u2019re not wanted\u2026 then what? <\/p>\n

\u201cDan Cere, a professor at McGill University and an affiliate scholar at this Institute, wrote a brief paper some years back that I just read, titled \u2018Every Child a Wanted Child.\u2019 He argues that the idea that every child should be \u2018wanted,\u2019 while sounding compassionate, is actually quite disturbing<\/a>. It does not value children for their own sake. Instead, it says a child has value \u2014 is \u2018wanted\u2019 and deserving of life \u2014 because a grownup has decided that it is valuable, fits in with their vision of their own life, and is deserving to be born.\u201d<\/p>\n

The affirmation of the human dignity and worth of those whom others would discard as \u201cunwanted\u201d is what links advocacy for prisoners, for the severely mentally ill, for the terminally ill, for the homeless, and for the unborn. And, frankly, we\u2019re all <\/em>burdens\u2013we\u2019re all \u201cdependent rational animals.\u201d On Wednesday I got a check that will let me pay next month\u2019s rent, but I am under no illusions that I am somehow better than people who are considered \u201cburdens.\u201d A society that believes people are only valuable when they are \u201cwanted\u201d is a society that has abandoned social justice. God wants everyone, loves even those who can\u2019t yet love themselves. So too should we.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"