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Conflict Of
A Weekly Column By Walter B. Hoye II
Interest
In the abortion debate, is there a "Conflict of Interest"
within the Black community and among her leaders?

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Zero-Sum
Zero-Sum is a term used to describe a situation in which one entity can gain
only if the other entity or entities suffer an equal loss. Cutting pieces of a pie
is an illustration of a Zero-Sum activity, because cutting a large piece of pie
proportionally reduces the amount of pie available for other pieces of pie.
Chess is an illustration of a Zero-Sum game. For example, if we were to play
a single game of chess to the end, one of us will win and one of us will lose.
If you then add the win (+1) to the loss (-1), the sum of the two numbers
equals zero.

Pareto-Optimality
The Zero-Sum concept (i.e., if one gains, another loses) means that any
result of a Zero-Sum situation is Pareto-Optimal. Pareto-Efficiency, or
Pareto-Optimality, is a concept named after Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian
economist who used the concept in his studies of economic efficiency and
income distribution. If given an assortment of alternative allocations of goods
and services or outcomes for a set of individuals, any change from one policy
to another that makes at least one individual better off without making any
other individual worse off is called a Pareto-Improvement or a Pareto-
Optimal move.

Abortion Is Not Abstract

"God who gave us life gave us liberty . Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a
conviction that these liberties are the gift of God ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just,
that his justice cannot sleep forever." — Inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., Thomas
Jefferson
All too often in the abortion debate the Pro-Choice community has framed
their argument in Zero-Sum terms (i.e., Any limitation on abortion is seen
as an equal loss for women's rights. Here abortion is an absolute right that
trumps all other rights.). Like wise and equally often, the Pro-Life community
has fought for Pareto-Optimal victories (i.e., Changes in abortion policies
that makes at least one individual better off without making any other
individual worse off.). Both concepts are academic exercises (i.e., a part of
game theories) that can live or die on a chalk board. However, abortion is
neither a game nor a concept that lives or dies in academia. In every case
abortion kills a baby, an innocent human being. In 1938, Margaret said in
her autobiography, "… abortion was the wrong way, no matter how
early it was performed it was taking a life."1 In 1952, even Planned
Parenthood admitted that abortion "kills the life of a baby after it has
begun." 2 It's clear what abortion is and what abortion does. Today, after 38
years of legalized abortion and the loss of over 53 million lives since 1973, it
is also clear who we are and what we have done to end abortion. Thomas
Jefferson, the third President of the United States and the principal author of
the Declaration of Independence was right. "God is just and His justice
cannot sleep forever."

May God forgive us all!

Brothers, we really need to talk.

Reference(s):
1. Sanger, Margert (1938), Margaret Sanger An Autobiography, New York: W.W. Norton, P. 217.
2. "Planned Parenthood 1952: Abortion 'Kills the Life of a Baby,' Danger to Mother", by Peter J. Smith, Washington
D.C., March 16, 2010 (http://bit.ly/aayFx4)

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