I admit, I was shocked when I read this quote by Jonathon Porritt a former Green Party Chair, from yesterday’s London Times:
"I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate," Porritt said.
It’s always puzzled me how folks like the Greens believed that humans could control the earth’s weather patterns by changing their individual activities and habits. Yet, those same humans were incapable of controlling their sexual impulses and therefore had a right to abortion as a form of birth control. It’s good to see that the Greens finally have aligned the logic of their arguments!
Um, I guess not:
Porritt, a former chairman of the Green party, says the government must improve family planning, even if it means shifting money from curing illness to increasing contraception and abortion.
He said: "We still have one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancies in Europe and we still have relatively high levels of pregnancies going to birth, often among women who are not convinced they want to become mothers.
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The Optimum Population Trust, a campaign group of which Porritt is a patron, says each baby born in Britain will, during his or her lifetime, burn carbon roughly equivalent to 2 ½ acres of old-growth oak woodland – an area the size of Trafalgar Square.
Let’s take Porritt’s logic to its extended conclusion shall we? Pick people afflicted by your favorite physical or mentally challenged issue and let’s be done with them….we could make more room for “valuable people” to “use the earth.” How about people who are in a persistent coma state…let’s pull the plugs there and make room! Retired people who just prefer to sit on their porches each day and watch the world go by; they’re gone because they add no value and are taking up resources.
Porritt and his ilk use phrases like “family planning” to try and hide away from the moral consequences of abortion. They attempt this in the same way the creators of the city in Logan’s Run used the Carousel and shouts of “Renew” to hide the fact that they too were killing those who were determined to no longer contribute more than the resources they used.
If the value of human life is determined by the impact on the earth, why stop at abortion?
