{"id":33844,"date":"2012-03-26T00:03:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T07:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=33844"},"modified":"2014-12-30T19:01:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T02:01:50","slug":"john-c-wright-whose-blog-is-way-better-than-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/03\/john-c-wright-whose-blog-is-way-better-than-mine.html","title":{"rendered":"John C. Wright, whose blog is way better than mine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

inspires and attracts the most interesting readers and conversations. To wit, a reader writes:<\/p>\n

Hail Dark Lord!<\/p>\n

Was over at John Wright\u2019s <\/a>blog the other day, where the item under discussion was the latest slide towards barbarism in the form of that academic paper advocating infanticide. Someone pointed out that Phil Dick had written a pro-life story shortly after Roe vs Wade was passed called \u201cThe Pre-Persons\u201d. Had a look at it, and was shocked to find how prescient it was. The idea is that in the future children only become human when they can do algebra- by law this determines that they do in fact possess a soul. <\/p>\n

The whole thing has a healthily savage hostility towards the pro abortion movement:<\/p>\n

\u201cTim\u2019s father Ed Gantro said, \u201cYou are insane. This postpartum abortion scheme and the abortion laws before it where the unborn child had no legal rights \u2014 it was removed like a tumor. Look what it\u2019s come to. If an unborn child can be killed without due process, why not a born one? What I see in common in both cases is their helplessness; the organism that is killed had no chance, no ability, to protect itself\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole mistake of the pro-abortion people from the start, he said to himself, was the arbitrary line they drew. An embryo is not entitled to American Constitutional rights and can be killed, legally, by a doctor. But a fetus was a \u201cperson,\u201d with rights, at least for a while; and then the pro-abortion crowd decided that even a seven-month fetus was not \u201chuman\u201d and could be killed, legally, by a licensed doctor. And, one day, a newborn baby \u2014 it is a vegetable; it can\u2019t focus its eyes, it understands nothing, nor talks. . . the pro-abortion lobby argued in court, and won, with their contention that a newborn baby was only a fetus expelled by accident or organic processes from the womb. But, even then, where was the line to be drawn finally? When the baby smiled its first smile? When it spoke its first word or reached for its initial time for a toy it enjoyed? The legal line was relentlessly pushed back and back\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Church had long since \u2014 from the start, in fact \u2014 maintained that even the zygote, and the embryo that followed, was as sacred a life form as any that walked the earth. They had seen what would come of arbitrary definitions of \u201cNow the soul enters the body,\u201d or in modern terms, \u201cNow it is a person entitled to the full protection of the law like everyone else.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

3 Cheers and a prayer for his soul are in order, I think. He may have been a drug addled Gnostic but at least he saw this evil for what it was and spoke out against it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I didn\u2019t know that about Dick. May it be remembered in his favor on That Day. That, and the fact that he was a mentor and friend to the great Tim Powers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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