Ready to adopt some puppies? For the Colson Center, I’m John Stonestreet with The Point.
Christian satire site The Babylon Bee recently ran an odd headline: “You
Can’t Oppose Killing Puppies Unless You Adopt Every Dog On The
Planet.”
A pro-dog-euthanization activist reportedly criticized the pro-puppy
crowd for only loving the smallest, cutest dogs. If defenders of canine life
aren’t ready to adopt every pooch on the planet, she said, they’re not really
pro-puppy.
Of course the Babylon Bee wasn’t actually talking about dogs but
parodying an argument we hear for abortion all the time: “Unless you’re willing
to adopt every unwanted baby, you can’t deny women the right to
choose.”
This usually comes from people who are unaware that Christians are more
than twice as likely as the average American to adopt a child, according to a
2013 survey by Barna.
More importantly, you don’t have to personally take in every unwanted
child to oppose killing them. Imagine someone using this excuse to justify
killing unwanted toddlers! It doesn’t work, because a human life is a human
life. Pro-lifers are consistent.
