day no. 16,971: of hospitality and holocosts

“A zygote is either a human being, created in the image of God, or it is not. If it is, then he or she is worthy of all the legal protections a society can provide, from the moment of conception on. This would mean that the abortion bus outside the DNC was one of the most macabre and grotesque displays of human perversity imaginable. But if the zygote is not created in the image of God, and it really is just a cluster of cells—then pro-lifers are the most tiresome and tedious people on the planet—a political faction that has disrupted the tranquility of a nation because we decided that no one should ever be allowed to do something that is the equivalent of trimming their fingernails. So everything comes down to the actual status of the unborn child.” — Douglas Wilson, Why Your Vote Is No Sacrament

Is a zygote a person?

If not, what is it and when does it become a person? 

If it is, then why is someone else allowed to murder him or her?

Your body is not someone else's body, but more importantly and to the point, his or her body is not yours.  A pregnant woman has the distinct privilege of having another person's body inside her body. So, they are obviously intricately connected, but they are still, and just as obviously, distinguishable. 

An abortion then is one body acting upon another body without the consent of the other body.

Rape and abortion are therefore siblings. They both involve one body doing something to another body without the consent of the body being acted upon. An abortion is one person violating the rights of another person.

The "right to abortion" should sound as egregious as the "right to rape." Calling abortion "healthcare" should sound as foreign as calling rape "physical therapy." Western ears however, hear the first of these without flinching. But this kind of callousness creates a culture where the right to rape may someday be proposed and state funded prostitution is declared a basic human right.

We have for too long tolerated and even celebrated the presence of zygote death camps in our country. We have not only allowed their existence, but attempted to codify their continuation through legislation. We have invented and then protected the "rights" of the holocosters while ignoring the God-given rights of unborn people. We have normalized death camps. We have abandoned the weak to the maws of the weak-willed. Babies have born the concentrated hate of an entire culture. They have been drugged, gassed, mutilated, tortured, and experimented upon. They have been maltreated as prisoners of war rather than welcomed as ambassadors of foreign grace.

What is a person? Where do they come from? When do they get here? The answer to those questions is the difference between hospitality and the holocost.