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BreakPoint Cultural commentary with Prison Fellowship's Chuck Colson http://www.breakpoint.org September 8, 2004 A Modern �Modest Proposal� - A Pro-Choice Journalist Opens Up Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley. So you�d like to be a journalist, but you�re not sure you�d be sufficiently objective? Don�t worry about it. More and more journalists are dropping all pretense of objectivity, apparently with few consequences. Douglas Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee found this out firsthand. A couple of weeks ago he sent out a press release about the reversal of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act by a federal judge in New York. In response, he received this e-mail: �What�s your plan for parenting and educating all the unwanted children you people want to bring into the world? Who will pay for policing our streets and maintaining the prisons needed to contain them when you, their parents and the system fail them? Oh, sorry. All that money has been earmarked to pay off the Bush deficit. Give me a frigging break, will you?� * * * * * * * * * * * * ADVERTISEMENT * * * * * * * * * * * MINISTRY EDUCATION IS AS CLOSE AS YOUR COMPUTER KEYBOARD. By Enrolling in a Master's Divinity School program, you will be able to begin ministry education at your own pace, making it practical to earn a degree that may otherwise be impossible. This is the age of distance ed, & today is the day to start! http://l.salemweb.net/masters1203b/bp/090804/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * That kind of thinking is nothing new for the pro-abortion opinion-makers, but it is rarely spoken. What is new here is that it was plainly spoken and that it came from the North American news editor at Reuters News Service, Todd Eastham. Oh, but wait�Eastham told Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz, �[I] was not responding in my capacity as an editor. I didn�t intend this as a professional communication.� Well, now, that clears that up. Or it would if Eastham hadn�t sent the communication from his business e-mail address. That kind of thing tends to raise some pesky questions, especially when it clearly violates Reuters�s editorial policy. But we do have to give Eastham points for honesty here. After all, how many pro-choicers openly admit that they think it would be better for �unwanted children� to die before birth than to live and possibly cost us taxpayers a lot of money? Or that they believe those children are automatically destined for a life of crime? Most pro-choicers manage to cloak those views in compassionate-sounding language, or the language of �choice,� but it usually boils down in the end to Eastham�s view: crass utilitarianism. In fact, Eastham�s words are eerily reminiscent of Jonathan Swift�s famous essay �A Modest Proposal,� in which he suggested that unwanted children be sold for food, since their parents couldn�t support them. The difference is that Swift was writing satire. Eastham, regrettably, is serious. Like the people Swift mocked, Eastham apparently sees human life in terms of economic costs and benefits, rather than viewing humans as having inherent value. The tired old argument that pro-lifers want to bring babies into the world only to watch them be abandoned and become a burden on society is just not true. Christian ministries around the country not only work with mothers in crisis pregnancies, but also continue to help them after their children are born. Right here at Prison Fellowship, our Angel Tree program offers mentoring, camping programs, and Christmas gifts to children whose parents are in prison. If he bothered to spend five minutes researching the subject, Mr. Eastham might recognize that Christians take seriously Jesus� command to welcome little children in His name. He might even be forced to ask himself who is truly failing the children of this country: those who fight for their right to life, or those who think of their lives as simply numbers on a balance sheet. Visit the Breakpoint website at http://www.breakpoint.org ____________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO_______________________ * This newsletter is never sent unsolicited. To unsubscribe from this newsletter immediately, simply click on the link below. If this link is not clickable, simply cut and paste it into the address bar of your browser. http://www.salememail.com/unsub/25/1698058.aspx * Copyright � 2004 Salem Web Network and its Content Providers. 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