The Lie of Abortion Rights

This is taken from an opinion column written by Deacon Keith Fournier about the interview of Bishop Tobin by Chris Matthews. He makes some good points about the interview, but this was the heart of the article.

Deacon Keith A. Fournier is a Catholic Deacon of the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia who also serves the Melkite Greek Catholic Church with approval. He is a human rights lawyer and long time public policy activist. Deacon Fournier is a graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville (B.A., Summa Cum Laude), the John Paul II Institute of the Lateran University (M.T.S., Magna Cum Laude) and the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Law (J.D., Law Review). He also holds an honorary Doctor of Letters (L.L.D) from St. Thomas University, given for his pro-life work. He has been to the U.S. Supreme Court on constitutional cases. An author, he is the Senior Editor of Catholic Online and a Contributing Editor of Traditional Catholic Reports.

As you can see, when it comes to law, Deacon Fournier knows what he is talking about.

There are no “abortion rights”, only human rights. I cannot listen to that phrase “abortion rights” without instantly responding.

The claim of a so called “right” to abort an innocent child is heinous. It is also a fallacy to couch this evil in the language of a woman’s “Right to Choose.” Some choices are always and everywhere wrong. Yet, that is the current state of the positive law in America since the horrendous decisions in Roe and Doe. Women can “choose” to take the life of our first neighbors, the ones who live where we all once lived, in the womb. That “choice” - which is always and everywhere wrong because it is the taking of innocent human life - is also currently protected by the Police Power of the State.

Abortion is the only example of taking innocent human life which is so protected by the Police Power of the State. It has a special status as some sort of "super right" in the American libertine culture and the dictatorship of relativism. Imagine if the positive law created a so called “right” to kill three week old babies because the Supreme Court said it was OK. There is no moral difference. Abortion is feticide in a new language intended to make what is evil sound acceptable.

In an Orwellian effort to change the debate and assuage their consciences its’ advocates have fashioned a “rights language” to make it somehow sound enlightened. It does not work. Science has confirmed what our conscience long ago told all of us, the child in the womb is one of us. She is our neighbor. It is always wrong to kill an innocent neighbor. This truth is written on our hearts by the Natural Law which all just positive laws should participate in and not abrogate. Intentional abortion is wrong and should be illegal in a just society.

The notion that the act of intentionally killing of an entire class of human beings should be called an “abortion right” is despicable. Only human persons can have “rights.” Governments do not create them, they can only recognize them. The act of abortion is a heinous crime. It has no "rights.”

The shorthand phrase “abortion rights” is a linguistic tool used by some journalists like Matthews to further the abortion deception. Even if the positive law of the United States has placed the Police Power behind protecting the evil “choice” to take innocent human life in the womb, one simply cannot have a “right” to do what is always wrong.

Source: Opinion: Chris Matthews should be fired for his Offensive Interview of Bishop Tobin