You read that right. Per Judith Jarvis Thomson’s defense of abortion little Cooper Harris’ death is justifiable. After all, if the 22-month old couldn’t unbuckle the car seat he was restrained in, and open the door to get himself out of danger, then he was reliant on his parents. Just like Judith’s violinist, Cooper was dependent… “a parasite”.
So goes the illogic. As the terrible reasoning unfolds you discover more examples. For instance, in the famous story of the violinist…
“You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney ailment, and the Society of Music Lovers has canvassed all the available medical records and found that you alone have the right blood type to help. They have therefore kidnapped you, and last night the violinist’s circulatory system was plugged into yours, so that your kidneys can be used to extract poisons from his blood as well as your own. The director of the hospital now tells you, “Look, we’re sorry the Society of Music Lovers did this to you–we would never have permitted it if we had known. But still, they did it, and the violinist is now plugged into you. To unplug you would be to kill him. But never mind, it’s only for nine months. By then he will have recovered from his ailment, and can safely be unplugged from you.” Is it morally incumbent on you to accede to this situation?”
… there are several other problems. For instance, to be an accurate portrayal of an unborn baby, that “fatal kidney ailment” he has, would have been your making in the first place. So perhaps you struck him with your car – it was an accident! – but it must be your fault, as is the case with the unborn child. So Cooper Harris was strapped into his car seat by his father… What if Cooper wasn’t a child? What if he was a grown woman abducted by Ross Harris?
Thomson’s defense obviously applies to that too, as the violinist is certainly no child, and supposedly a stranger. So not only does it justify Ross Harris baking his son in a car, rather than putting him up for adoption as anyone with an ounce of humanity would have done. It also would have justified Harris kidnapping someone and tying them up and leaving them in a hot car… but it does even more than that…
To accurately reflect abortion we must also include not just hot cars, but more accurately dismemberment. That violinist would not be simply detached but would be dismembered alive. In some cases they would be doused with acid before being dismembered.
So if this picture of the child that was tied up and baked to death in his own daddy’s car stirs any emotions in you, realize that everyday thousands of babies just like him are dismembered in their own mommy’s uterus. Why? Because society claims it’s ok. Because society claims that a parent shouldn’t be “forced” to raise their child, or even wait for a few months until someone else can take over for them.
We live in a sick world, and don’t be surprised if Planned Parenthood isn’t offering euthanization services for toddlers in the decades to come. In fact, given past strategies it is fairly likely that some sociopath executive in the organization will use the murder of Cooper Harris as an example for why Planned Parenthood should offer more “humane” options for parents like Ross Harris. More humane like dismemberment, or saline burning treatments, or driving a spike into the base of their skull. All of which have been employed by abortionists to kill children.
Abortion is a modern holocaust. Nothing less.