The solution is not to have aborted Ted Bundy, but for somebody to have cared enough about protecting human life to rescue him after he was born.  Polly Davis, his attorney in the Florida attacks and murders (there were at least two), mentions that in the home he was brought up in, he was raised to believe his mother was his sister, his sister was his aunt, and his grandparents were his parents.  She also intimates that he suffered severe abuse.  Read her book, Defending the Devil.  The man who wrote Bundy: The Deliberate Stranger points out that when Ted was three years old, his "aunt" woke up one morning to find him staring malevolently at her.  When she tried to put on her shoes, she found them filled with sharp knives.

Bundy was not someone who just chose to become a psychopath.  Placement in a home where the parents would have been able to understand he had deficits would have likely resulted in the development of a man who knew that for his entire life he would have to be on bi-polar medication and that he would always have someone to go to when he felt things were slipping out of his control.  That, not abortion, is what would have made Bundy no danger to society.

But if the "pro-lifers" weren't able to define the terms so successfully, they would have to answer  the question, "So, what are you doing to prevent an unwanted, unloved and at-risk child from becoming the next Ted Bundy?"

To show you how successfully they have defined the entire debate,  you have proven it simply by repeating the very charge that they make.  The debate should be about how their aborticentrism-- a concern about human life that is so exaggerated that it actually interferes with their ability to care for it-- is ruining a child's potential for achieving humanity.

--idios

by idios on Fri Aug 03, 2007 at 08:36:45 PM EST
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