Pleading the Fifth?

Oh brother.  I just heard Whoopi Goldberg defend the right to an abortion using the Ten Commandments! (The View, April 8, 2024)

When one of her co-anchors on The View brought up "You shall not kill," Whoopi said that it doesn't hold up in this situation (abortion), because we allow killing in so many other ways, such as the death penalty, wars and the use of guns.

That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. 

The anchors talked about how it's clearly not okay to lie or commit adultery, but then when the question of the Fifth Commandment came up, they rationalized it by saying that we allow killing to happen elsewhere, so you can't really apply that Commandment to abortion.

Whaaaat?

Apparently, Whoopi, who hopes "no one ever has to have an abortion" supports the right to choose abortion by using the tired old tripe that it is between a woman, her doctor and God.

If abortion--intentionally taking an innocent life--is not okay generally speaking, then it is not okay in any situation. 

Either you support abortion or you don't.  There really isn't an in between here, because what the act of abortion does (kill), doesn't change according to circumstances or one's intention.

Why can't we get this?

Janet Cassidy
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