Suicide Bombers and AbortionBy Thomas E. BrewtonTraining Islamic children to become suicide bombers has much in  common with abortion.For an excellent analysis of the Supreme Court's recent "Carhart"  decision on partial-birth abortion, see The Supreme Court and  Reasonable Hope( http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=709 )by Richard John  Neuhaus on the First Things website.Reactions to "Carhart" raise the question whether our hedonistic, pro- choice liberals have any better claim to rectitude than Islamic  jihadists.Even liberals who blame the United States for Islamic aggression  profess distress at the horrific phenomenon of Islamic families  proudly urging their children to blow themselves up in order to kill  infidels.Those same liberals strenuously uphold the "right" of any woman,  without the slightest recourse to due process of law, to murder her  unborn infant. No tears are shed for the innocent life butchered in  the abortion process.The thought of Islamic parents subjecting their children to such  inhumanity is revolting, but no more than the self-congratulatory  piousness of abortion supporters.Both liberals and jihadists are intent upon furthering a cause.  They  care not a whit about the lives of their children, who are expendable  in the causes of hedonism or political power.Jihadists claim to be following the Koran as the literal words of  Allah.  Their mullahs tell them that forcing non-Muslims to submit or  die is the highest calling that they can attain, and they are eager  to die for it.Liberals in the United States are just as eager to kill unborn babies  in the social justice cause of a woman's "right to choose."  That  disingenuous phrase, however, is a smoke screen for the historical  fact that the 1973 "Roe v Wade" case was a product of the anarchist  free-love of the Baby Boomer generation.  It was nothing more nor  less than legitimizing sexual promiscuity.Like the jihadists, Boomers in the late 1960s and early 70s believed  that their cause justified extreme violence.  They thought it cool to  blow up college computer centers and police stations, or to rob banks  and kill people in the process.  Nancy Pelosi's generation adopted  the Weatherman slogan, "Bring the war home; ice the pigs; kill your  parents."  Speaker Pelosi still likes the first part of that slogan.For liberals, abortion as a convenient way to deal with the potential  consequences of sexual promiscuity is just another instance of John  Dewey's pragmatism.  Dewey based his views on the Darwinian  hypothesis that there is no such thing as morality; the only  operative guideline is might makes right, survival of the fittest.   Be self-centered and do only what benefits you, no matter the cost to  others.  If it works for you, do it.Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg deplored the "Carhart" decision, among  other reasons, for introducing morality into a legal decision.   Morality, however, came, not from the Court, but from a strong  majority of Congress who adduced it as a foundation for the statute  banning partial-birth abortion.Justice Ginsburg overlooks the fact that "Roe v Wade" had exactly  zero legal basis, but was instead no more than the Supreme Court's  expression of what a majority of the Justices thought "ought" to  prevail.Liberals are again talking out of both sides of their mouths at the  same time.Thomas E. Brewton is a staff writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc.  The New Media Alliance is a non-profit (501c3) national coalition of  writers, journalists and grass-roots media outlets.His weblog is THE VIEW FROM 1776http://www.thomasbrewton.com/Email comments to viewfrom1776@thomasbrewton.com