Navigating the often stormy waters and almost always interesting Internet, I found an article by Miguel Delibes about the stance of modern "progressives" (words of the writer) in relation abortion. It reads:
"And if is that abortion has come to be included among the tenets of modern liberals. In our time is almost inconceivable a progressive pro-life. For these, anyone who opposes abortion on demand is a retrograde position, as they say, leaves many people, socially advanced, with the ass in the air.
past, progressives responded to a very simple scheme: to support the weak, pacifism and nonviolence.
Years later, the progressive creed added to this defense of nature.
For the progressive, labor was weak against the employer, the child against the adult, black face white. Had to choose sides between them. Were to be challenged progressive war, nuclear energy, the death penalty, any form of violence. As a result, had to oppose the arms race, the atomic bomb and the gallows. The progressive ideology was clear and was quite charming follow.
Life was the first, what came was trying to improve its quality for the destitute and helpless. So there was work ahead.
But there was the problem of abortion, abortion chain, free, and with it the controversy over whether or not the fetus was a person, and, before him, hesitated progressivism.
The embryo was life, yes, but no person, while the mother was already suspected and to take decisions.
not thought that the life of the fetus was most vulnerable that the worker or the black, perhaps because the embryo did not have a voice, and politically irrelevant.
then began to give way on that seemed immutable principles: protection of the weak and non-violence. Against
embryo, a helpless and defenseless life, could prejudice respect impunity. Never mind their weakness if they are disposed of through violence painless, scientific and sterilized. The other fetuses silenced, street demonstrations could do, could not protest, they were even weaker than the weakest whose rights protected progressivism, no one could use.
And to a similar phenomenon, some progressives say: this is against my ideology. If progress is not to defend life, the smallest and needy, social assault, and precisely in the era of contraception, I paint what I here?
Because for these progressives who still defend the defenseless and reject any form of violence, that is still adhering to the old principles, nausea also occurs to an atomic explosion, a gas chamber or a sterile operating room. "
Author: Miguel Delibes-Date: 2008-08-12
When Miguel Delibes died, the PSOE (the party which now inhabits mainly the modern" progressives ") , Miguel Delibes described as "an ethical and intellectual reference of English society is now irretrievably orphans. This I am not making this up, are the words of Deputy Minister Jose Anfres Torres Mora, see it:
http://www.psoe.es/ambito/saladeprensa/pressnotes/index.do?action=view&id=445024
Anyway , you know those who define themselves as progressive reflection (if such capacity have been left aside by the abuse of the practice of tailing of the slogans issued by the party apparatus), and realize that while they maintain their current stance on the abortion issue simply will not be allowed ever say that to defend the weaker against the stronger. Signed
. Organa
PD. By the way, know that the transcript Delibes article I found in the log of the left against abortion, which carries a certain "Che" and is housed in the community of the SER. This is the link for the blog:
http://lacomunidad.cadenaser.com/sialavida/posts
Things trails, friend Sancho!
