Saturday, March 31, 2007

"Rights Talk" Collides with Right and Wrong

By Al Mohler

An absolute "right" to an abortion for any reason or no reason at all -- a cardinal principle of modern feminism -- runs right into the fact that this means the killing of females by the millions. The United Nations, a body as obsessed with rights as any other, cannot even respond with coherent moral outrage.

No structure of "rights" can long survive without a clear and substantial moral foundation. In other words, matters of right and wrong must come before claims to abstract "rights." Just ask the millions of missing baby girls. (more)