Posted on March
30, 2017
Lesson Not Lahren-ed
Tomi’s mindless pro-abortion mantra
by
Daniel
Clark
There’s a reason why, over the course of our national
debate on abortion, there have been so many defectors from the pro- to the
anti-side, and so few heading in the other direction. Once one has accepted the fact that a new
human being is created at the instant of fertilization, no additional knowledge
can ever be gained that would persuade one that an unborn human child is the
moral equivalent of a fig. Anybody who
defects to the pro-abortion side must therefore dismiss what he or she already
knows about the issue.
Maybe that’s why recent pro-abortion convert Tomi Lahren doesn’t care to discuss the facts of abortion, but
instead dismisses its opponents as hypocrites.
Lahren (first name pronounced “Tommy,” for
those unfamiliar) is a young social media star who, up until now, has been a
conservative commentator on Glenn Beck’s network, The Blaze.
In
an appearance on ABC’s The View, she
surprised many by declaring her support for abortion, in contradiction of
remarks she’d previously made on her own show, Tomi. Some conservatives
have pointed out that Lahren once took
abortion-loving celebrity Lena Dunham to task for “wishing she could have
murdered a fetus.” Now, she says, “I
can’t sit here and be a hypocrite and say I’m for limited government, but say I
think the government should decide what women do with their bodies.” Or with their murdered fetuses. Whichever.
In response to her critics, Lahren
tweeted, “I speak my truth. If you don’t
like it, tough. I will always be honest
and stand in my truth.” Oh, so that’s
what she’s standing in. Who knew truth
could be so pungent?
This is a common argument made by abortion advocates
who hold otherwise conservative or libertarian views, which goes to show how
little they care to really think about the issue. The way Lahren
presents it, limited government is a hypocrisy unto itself. In order to defend abortion, she pretends to
believe that the only two philosophically defensive positions are
totalitarianism and anarchy.
Part of believing in limited government is understanding
that it’s limited to something. The recognition that the federal government
has a duty to protect the people’s rights to life, liberty and property is why
our founders drafted and ratified the Bill of Rights. One would hope that Lahren,
who said on The View, “I am someone
who loves the Constitution,” understood this.
No, Tomi, it is not hypocritical of conservatives to
say that the government has no business regulating the mileage of our cars or
the capacity of our toilet tanks, but that it has a duty to prevent the
slaughter of innocent human beings.
What’s hypocritical is taking one side of an issue while talking to a
conservative audience on The Blaze, and taking the opposite position while
talking to a liberal audience on The View.
What’s
hypocritical is declaring, “I love the Constitution,” and also defending an
activist Supreme Court ruling that purports to find its justification in a
“penumbra” (or partially-lighted area) of the Constitution, a Ninth Amendment
right that literally cannot exist, the interpretation of one amendment
“through” another amendment, and other blatantly anti-constitutional poppycock
like that.
What’s hypocritical is saying you’re for limited
government, yet condoning an outrageous power grab by the federal judiciary,
which presumed to create “the law of the land” without such a law having ever
been passed.
What’s hypocritical is characterizing abortion as
“what women do with their bodies,” when you’ve already demonstrated your
knowledge that the bodies that are destroyed, and then discarded or sold for
scrap, are not theirs.
What’s hypocritical is pretending to defend a woman’s
right to do what she wants with her “own body” – meaning her unborn child – and
siding with an abortion industry that strenuously tries to prevent women from
seeing their sonograms, thus taking the position that the content of a woman’s
womb is none of her business.
What’s hypocritical is talking a big game about
political incorrectness, then joining a movement whose adherents are incapable
of discussing the issue without burying it under a steaming heap of euphemism.
What’s hypocritical is consciously rejecting the
immutable facts of life, and then pronouncing the resulting conclusion to be
“my truth.”
Sorry, Tomi, everybody doesn’t get to have his or her
own truth. Either you can have the one
objective truth, or else you can have applause whenever you appear on some
vacuous liberal screechfest like The View. It’s about time
you picked one or the other, and stuck with it.
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