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Just How Big Should Our Tent Be?

June 8, 2009 - 12:17 am - by Clayton E. Cramer
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2009-06-08 04:25:08

Let’s propose a compromise at least as logical as the Missouri compromise. Supporters of Abortion rights . . . en masse throw their support to the reinstatement (or continuing and broadening the use) of the death penalty for violent crime. For those feeling the least bit squeemish we change the term to “Post-Natal” abortion (much better now, right?). At the same time the Pro Life movement throws their support on the use of fetal tissues, because (due to the compromise) the newly executed (post natal aborted) criminals organs will be distributed to national organ banks for the betterment of the people. No longer will law abiding people die because of the lack of donated organs. Kidneys, Hearts, lungs and livers will arrive freshly harvested to the organ banks ready for the use of the ill law abiding. The only problem will be that some (who otherwise would be in the larder) might choose not to become criminals, easy fix! Lower the threshold of the penalty by degrees so the supply remains constant (so from murderers to violent rapists, to child molesters, and when those numbers start to drop we add bank robbers and people who disobey their parents). The beauty of the compromise is it is at least as morally correct as abortion in the first place (actually probably more so).