Murder is Ok – Just Don’t Talk About It

Bill Bennett, who served as Education Secretary under President Ronald Reagan and as drug czar under the first President Bush, made a comment Wednesday on the "Morning in America" radio program he hosts, that has caused a lot of controversy. This is what happened:

He was responding to a caller who suggested that social security might be solvent if all the babies aborted in the last thirty years were here to pay into it.That launched Bennett and his caller into a theoretical discussion about the impact of abortion, during which Bennett said the following: "But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations [about abortion] are, I think, tricky."


Now you can imagine what happened when these comments were reported by the major news media! Bill Bennett was called a racist and many called for him to be fined or fired! Many people debated the current crime rates and looked at the percentage of crime committed by African Americans. But while all this was happening, I sat back in disbelief, wondering why nobody seemed to get the real point! How can people be upset about what Bill Bennett said and at the same time not upset with the people who are aborting African American babies? I did a little research and found that:

The most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control indicate that while 56 percent of all women who obtained legal abortions were white, the abortion rate (the number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44 per year) for black women was 2.9 times that of white women. For every thousand black women, 32 have abortions, as compared with 11 for every thousand white women. Likewise with numbers of abortions per 1,000 births: The abortions/births ratio for white women was 184 abortions per 1,000 live births; for black women, it was 543 abortions per 1,000 births. This means that abortion ratios for black women were 2.8 times greater than those for white women. Sadly, black women were also more likely to obtain riskier abortions late in their pregnancies, while white women were significantly more likely than black women to obtain abortions before 16 weeks.

I find the whole thing hypocritical! People are attacking what Bill Bennett said and at the same time are supporting abortion! I mean, if abortion is not the killing of a human life, then what is the big deal? If it is simply the surgical removal of tissue, then why the outrage? No one wants to admit that abortion is the killing of a human life. Yet there are times when the very same people react in a way that seems to indicate differently. They want laws passed that will find someone who kills a pregnant mother guilty of murdering both the mom and the baby. If a man attacks a pregnant women and begins to kick and punch her in the stomach area, people want him to be punished for hurting the baby as well. Hello! Is anyone paying attention? If it is a baby when someone else harms it, then it has to be a baby when a mother walks into an abortion clinic and has it killed.

I guess in our confused country it is ok to get upset about talking about the hypothetical benefits of aborting certain babies, while at the same time supporting the actual killing of those very babies!