What does a governor’s race in California have to do with the state of Ohio? A great deal, apparently.
Last month, California Governor Newsom’s campaign paid to promote abortion via public billboards in seven states, including Ohio. Some of these billboards said, “Ohio doesn’t own your body. You do.”
This is not a new argument. Much of the country believes that women should get to choose whether or not to have an abortion. But we need to think about this more deeply.
Everyone knows intuitively that some choices are wrong. For example, I should be allowed to choose whether or not to build a campfire in my backyard. But it would be wrong for me to set my neighbor’s house on fire while his kids are sleeping.
Choices that intentionally harm other innocent humans are wrong choices. So, before we justify abortion as a “choice,” we need to ask if this decision harms anyone besides the mother. She might own her body, but is there another body inside of hers?
The science of embryology teaches that the preborn are distinct, living, and whole human beings from fertilization. Both parents are human, so their preborn baby must be human as well. Every successful abortion intentionally kills an innocent preborn human being.
Granted, the preborn are much different than born humans. But such differences are all the result of a difference in age. We know that the reasons people use to justify abortion would never justify killing born human beings. Therefore, abortion is age-based discrimination.
If all humans are equally valuable, then why do we allow this injustice to take place? No one should have the choice to intentionally kill an innocent human being, whatever her age.
The state of Ohio has a duty to protect the lives of preborn babies, just as it does born people. Governor Newsom and the state of California might disapprove of such a commitment to human equality, but that’s okay. Ohio is not California, and Newsom is not our governor.
See one of Newsom’s Ohio billboards as reported by The Insider.