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Ending Abortion August 9, 2010

“Our strategy is simple. We must do whatever research and education is needed to convince the public about the dangers of abortion.” – AfterAbortion.org

Out of all of the pro life web sites and groups I could find, the statement above was perhaps the closest thing I could find to an actual plan for doing anything. What are most (if not all) groups actually doing? Here, hold this sign and we’ll protest every now and then, and then denounce you all as murderers. The results have been predictable. More and more republicans are showing sympathies towards abortion, the church continues to move left, and the debate between pro life and pro choice is nothing more than an occasional name-calling match. Google “ending abortion”, click on the first few things that come up to see what I mean. This world net daily article is trying to sell a book that supposedly gives a plan and shows the inevitability of victory for the pro life movement in America. Great! The only problem is that it’s not true.

Abortion cannot be separated from the larger ideological conflict going on between Liberals and Conservatives.* This conflict ranges from national identity to same-sex marriage to abortion. I don’t think I even need to say who’s winning. The left is clubbing the right like baby seals, and it’s not going to change any time soon. The reasons for this are many and complex. But from a very practical point of view, it’s because the right doesn’t understand power politics. It doesn’t matter what people think right now because the people are fickle and easily manipulated. Take a look at the richest people in our country (or even our world). Most of them are liberals. It is no coincidence that society is constantly moving in a direction to suit their ideology. Look at our current president (and most politicians of both the present and the past). They didn’t get there by accident, they were put there by people with power and influence, most of whom we’ve never heard of. They are people with money.

There are only two forms of power in this world: guns and dollars. Speeches, good looks, books, even right itself have no actual political power in and of themselves. If we are to influence the world and direct the course of events we must recognize that and put ourselves and others aligned with us into positions of power. The left has the money: they rule.

With this background we can begin to approach the abortion debate. We have to start with a basic understanding of what abortion is. It’s a business. People make money, lots of money off of it. Even if you were to ban it, you wouldn’t stop it. The result would be decreased supply, without decreased demand. This drives the prices of an abortion through the roof meaning that those that perform them will make twice as much (at least). Think of abolition in the 20s or the current so called “war on drugs”. Banning it doesn’t stop it. The only way to end abortion is to take away the profit. Period. End of story.

How do you do that? Keep it legal, stop giving government funds to it, tax it and then sue them with malpractice suits. The IRS will take care of the rest. By keeping it legal you are able to keep tabs on it, and shut down the ones operating illegally on tax grounds. Abortion has been proven to damage the woman’s health (with of course the risk of death), which means you can sue them, making it less than profitable to run a clinic. Do that and you’ve just virtually eliminated it. No protest or billboards (which are worthless anyway) required.

So now that we know what we’ve got to do, the next logical question is how to do it. Enter the homeschool movement. We’re a group of lots of young people (almost all of whom are conservatives), and who have strong political views, especially on abortion. Perfect! The problem is that homeschoolers are looking in the wrong direction. Homeschool students are actually fourteen times as likely to get involved in politics than their public school counterparts. That’s very special, but as we’ve already discussed real power (hard power) only comes through money and guns. And in a capitalist society money trumps guns. We don’t need more of Sarah Palin. We need a Bill Gates, an Oprah, and a Warren Buffet. Homeschool students need to seriously consider where they can make the most difference, business or politics? Politicians can only be successful in today’s world is if they’re backed by the money.

My advice to the pro life movement? Protest is worthless. Statistics are worthless. Only cold hard cash is going to turn the thing around. Get some billionaires on our side. Read less of Jefferson and Rousseau and start reading Machiavelli. The world isn’t the way it should be. It never will be. It’s just the way it is, play the system or get left behind.

* Actually it’s a much deeper conflict that’s been going on for a much longer time than America has been a country. For the sake of simplicity however I have reduced my terminology to simple, if shallow “left-right” politics.