Charles Krauthammer raises a striking point in his discussion of the Planned Parenthood videos:
Abortion critics have long warned that the problem is not only the obvious — what abortion does to the fetus — but also what it does to us.
It’s the same kind of desensitization that has occurred in the Netherlands with another mass exercise in life termination: assisted suicide. It began as a way to prevent the suffering of the terminally ill. It has now become so widespread and wanton that one-fifth of all Dutch assisted-suicide patients are euthanized without their explicit consent.
Abortion dehumanizes the fetus, interpreting a human child as mere “tissue” so that it can be easily disposed of. Abortion also robs the abortionist and the culture that supports abortion of ordinary human pity, compassion, and the instinct to protect the young.
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