Recently, South Dakota grabbed the nation's attention by passing a bill criminalizing virtually all abortions.
What struck many observers is just how far the bill goes. Many pro-lifers are troubled by the fact the bill denies abortion even to women who have been victims of rape or incest, and the bill only grants exceptions for health reasons if the mother's life is in danger. Even the president counts rape, incest and less serious health concerns as justifiable reasons for abortion.
Not to make my fellow pro-choicers cringe but, in all honesty, I respect the views of the South Dakota lawmakers more than the more moderate pro-lifers who disagree with the bill - because beliefs are the bunnies of the brain!
An explanation: When one embraces a belief, it sets off a chain reaction that will produce untold numbers of new beliefs. More and more beliefs are formed when beliefs start bumping up against each other. They reproduce like rabbits. Before you know it, you've got an elaborate family tree of belief bunnies.
It's very simple. A belief in God - or in democracy - spawns more beliefs that follow a logical progression.
In this case, the belief is that life begins at the moment of conception. Think of it as "Bunny X." Several beliefs are born of that bunny, such as the belief that a zygote is just as much a person as any post-womb human.
So far things aren't so bad; then the bunnies start to multiply. If a fetus is legally alive, then abortion is murder. If a woman is the victim of rape or incest, to abort the fetus is still an act of murder. You cannot get around that truth if you hold "Bunny X" as valid. The South Dakota-style pro-lifers have the guts to take their beliefs to that difficult - albeit wholly logical and principled - degree.
There are still more bunnies to come. If abortion is pre-meditated murder, a woman who gets an abortion is no different than a cold-blooded killer. And if all killers deserve to spend their lives in jail or be executed ...
We're about thigh-deep in bunnies now - real uncomfortable thoughts.
The difference between the average person and the extremist is that the extremist has followed the path of his beliefs to the point that he is living a wild life overwhelmed by more brain bunnies than can be handled.
There comes a point when the bunnies have to be shot in order for a person to lead a normal life. Your average person is able to live a normal life because he controls the bunnies' reproduction. This grants all of us our gold star hypocrisy stickers.
Consider: If a fetus is no different from a child, then the abortion clinic is akin to a family murder factory. Mommy walks in with her annoying, bratty little boy, Joey, and props him up on the examination table. A "doctor" comes in, slits Joey's throat, and they dispose of the "tissue" like any other biomedical waste.
To the holder of "Bunny X," that belief must either be embraced or ignored with a shot to the head.
What if that scenario was legally going on in the United States - "Family Murder Factories" all across the country? What would you do?
I'll tell you what I'd do: form militias and wage guerilla warfare against the family murder factories and the hideous government that legalized them. Assassinating one of the "doctors" who performed these "procedures" would be a wholly righteous act, like shooting a Nazi concentration camp leader.
A terrorist is born.
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