Kathy Ireland speaks for the unborn:
It’s no secret that the majority of Hollywood stars are strong advocates for a woman’s right to choose whether or not she wants to terminate a pregnancy, however former “Sports Illustrated” supermodel-turned-entrepreneur-turned-author Kathy Ireland has gone against the grain of the glitterati and spoken out against abortion.
“My entire life I was pro-choice — who was I to tell another woman what she could or couldn’t do with her body? But when I was 18, I became a Christian and I dove into the medical books, I dove into science,” Ireland told Tarts while promoting her insightful new book “Real Solutions for Busy Mom: Your Guide to Success and Sanity.”
“What I read was astounding and I learned that at the moment of conception a new life comes into being. The complete genetic blueprint is there, the DNA is determined, the blood type is determined, the sex is determined, the unique set of fingerprints that nobody has had or ever will have is already there.”
However Ireland admitted that she did everything she could to avoid becoming a believer in pro-life.
“I called Planned Parenthood and begged them to give me their best argument and all they could come up with that it is really just a clump of cells and if you get it early enough it doesn’t even look like a baby. Well, we’re all clumps of cells and the unborn does not look like a baby the same way the baby does not look like a teenager, a teenager does not look like a senior citizen. That unborn baby looks exactly the way human beings are supposed to look at that stage of development. It doesn’t suddenly become a human being at a certain point in time,” Ireland argued. “I’ve also asked leading scientists across our country to please show me some shred of evidence that the unborn is not a human being. I didn’t want to be pro-life, but this is not a woman’s rights issue but a human rights issue.”
An honest woman took a good, long look at the issue and came to the only rational conclusion – to be pro-life. I’m pro-life, at bottom, as part of my Christian faith – but one can be the most ardent atheist and if one thinks the matter all the way through, pro-life is the only valid position. And thus my view that people who are “pro-choice” are people who haven’t thought the matter through. A smaller subset of these people are actually, functionally pro-abortion…they’ve thought the matter through, but guilt haunts them and cowardice prevents them from facing the matter squarely.
As I’ve said before, abortion is the enemy of hope; it is a final solution to a temporary condition. Elective abortion is something which has no basis in rationality, no basis in morality and no basis in medicine. That we’ve fallen for this monstrous idea shows how weak we truly are, and why for centuries the wise have instructed us to carefully adhere to received morality…not because they thought themselves smarter than the rest of us, but because they knew that overall human experience is smarter than any one person. We know that the worldview which accepts abortion is a worldview of despair – and as we see in Europe, the world view of slow suicide for nations.
We can turn back – to progress on this issue requires that we turn back. That we go back to a time when we held firmly to the concept that each human life is inherently valuable. If we do that, we will have done the largest and most important part of restoring our sad, tired civilization to decency.
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