As Russel Moore notes in an article for Christianity Today, the Komen/Planned Parenthood controversy—and the culture of abortion—is really all about money:
In all of this, though, we can gain an opportunity to see what the abortion culture is all about: cash. Planned Parenthood and their allies use the thoroughly American language of freedom of choice and women’s empowerment, but what’s at stake, as seen here, are billions of dollars. That’s why, despite their talk about adoption as a “choice,” Planned Parenthood and others hardly ever lead women through an adoption process relative to how often they promise them the “fix” of a “terminated pregnancy.” There’s a profit motive involved in every abortion.
I’m sure there’s much of the rather “mundane” profit motive in the Dilation-Extraction-Industrial Complex. The businesslike efficiency of it is certainly sickening.
But I don’t think that’s all there is to it, and I think Dr. Moore stretches that explanation a bit too far in this case. The whole thing rather more nefarious than that, or at least more nefariously complex.
PP is animated by an ethic that champions “choice,” and if there were a single idol to attribute to that worldview, it would probably be Choice rather than Mammon. Or perhaps Molech.
Well, don’t you see that without the right to “choose”, a woman might actually be in a situation that might possibly affect her financial well-being. Money, baby, money….oh, what am I thinking: of course the child must die! Gruesomely, too, for daring to threaten the ultimate good.
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