Earlier this week we commented on Senator Joe Biden's public statement which reveals he believes that life begins at conception but is unwilling to impose his personal belief on others. Albert Mohler calls this stand horrifying:
Sen. Biden may have been attempting to "walk the line" politically, but a closer look at his actual argument is truly horrifying.The most disturbing aspect of Biden's stand is that he truly knows and understands the atrocity of abortion and yet does nothing despite his responsibility and position of power and authority.Sen. Biden says, and we must take him at his word, that he accepts as a matter of faith that human life begins at conception. But, he argues, he is perfectly willing to support a woman's right to choose to end that human life.
The killing of human life is called homicide. Murder is the willful taking of a human life. The senator has here stated that he believes abortion to be homicide, but he defends a woman's right to kill the unborn human life within her because he would not impose his beliefs about human life (and thus about homicide) on others.
In other words, if we take Sen. Biden seriously, he would defer to others who believe otherwise when it comes to the law.
Senator Biden is very close to the correct position. Which is: abortion on demand is justifiable homicide.
It's painful to admit it, painful for everyone--for (many, mostly older) pro-choicers to admit the "homicide" and for RTLs to admit the "justifiable"--but it is the truth.
By definition homicide is not "justifiable" but rather in unjust. Yet, it is legal. Perhaps "legal homicide" would be a better word. Quite similar to the legal genocide practices by some countries. It's not "justifiable" but simply "legal".