No Exceptions

For the same reasons that we demand abortion’s immediate abolition, we demand abortion’s total abolition. That means no exceptions. No exceptions which allow for murdering babies because of the circumstances in which they were conceived. No exceptions that allow for murdering babies because they have a disease or disorder. No exceptions whatsoever. If abortion is murder, and we all know it is, it must be abolished entirely.

Not only are exceptions morally repugnant, they are devastating to the cause pragmatically. To compromise on an issue like child sacrifice is to fatally weaken the foundation of the moral argument. Elizabeth Heyrick, a British abolitionist of slavery had this to say on the matter:

On this great questions, the spirit of accommodation and conciliation has been a spirit of delusion. The abolitionists have lost, rather than gained ground by it; their cause has been weakened, instead of strengthened. The great interests of truth and justice are betrayed, rather than supported, by all softening qualifying concessions. Every iota which is yielded of their rightful claims, impairs the conviction of their rectitude, and, consequently, weakens their success.

In plain English, Heyrick is explaining that compromising with an evil such as slavery undermined the power of the anti-slavery argument. If slavery was truly manstealing, assault, rape, murder, etc., then those who oppose it would be demanding its immediate abolition. To compromise with and allow exceptions for a capital crime would be double-minded wickedness. To make concessions with an evil such as slavery or abortion as if issues of murder and dehumanization were like any other political back-and-forth is to weaken the power that truth and justice hold over the discussion.