The Abortion Follow-up 

I found some info articles pertaining to the radio report I blogged about earlier.  Here are two for you to read:    Here         And here                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

And the point from earlier is—even though abortions are down, there are still too many.  Geez, 1.2 million!

That’s too many and complicates things even more.  I say that and encourage all to read the articles above to see why.  There are many perspectives to abortion like age, economic status, single vs. hitched women, race, and you can probably find more. 

It’s easy to be pro-life or pro-choice, but it’s harder to say why and understand the opposing view as well.

Whether you see it as right or wrong, one has to be sensitive and open to different life situations and our collective mind set as a nation.  From there we can go forward together on solutions, agreements, and a LIVING understanding. 

For years I waffled about abortion, and, of course, I was young.  Back then, abortion seemed like a safety net you might have to use.  That’s what I mean about the collective mind set thing above.  See, I came up in the first generation when aborting babies was legal, and the way it is, was, played off around me, in society, was—a medical procedure; a choice; a safety net.  Nobody talked about it, necessarily, and a pregnancy became like, I don’t know, a bad tooth that you didn’t expect and need pulled.

There were no pictures of fetal development in biology or health class or sex Ed.  I might remember reading something about the baby’s development and the trimester thing. 

I definitely remember “zygote” and “embryo.”

So, let that be testimony to the fact that the teaching about the development of human life is warm water, at best, that’s neither too hot nor too cold, and doesn’t question the aspect of when life begins and what a person is.

And that is exactly where I want to go to explain why I now know that abortion is wrong and should be discouraged.

It seems to me that Roe vs. Wade’s legal precedent for allowing abortion is the idea of when a glump of flesh (baby) becomes a PERSON, in that the Constitution guarantees the rights to LIFE, LIBERTY, AND EQUALITY to PEOPLE.  So, because the justices’ rule that a baby isn’t a person until it, I don’t know, breathes air or is born or maybe has brain waves, it doesn’t necessarily have the Constitutional right to LIFE.  This allows the mother, who is a person enjoying Constitutional protection (afforded by God), to legally remove the “non-person” flesh from her uterus and throw it away—or save it for “The Matrix” machines to grow future human lives.  HA HA.

Interesting.

Of course, this philosophy may lead us to question when a LIVING PERSON doesn’t qualify to be a PERSON, since it seems there are standards on what it means to be a person, thus providing the option for the right to government assisted suicide and the right to DEATH.

Don’t forget about the idea of the government determining which babies, embryos, or “potential human life” may be unfit for life, and therefore MUST BE DESTROYED so as not to pollute the gene pool.

This is nothing new and is called eugenics.      Check this out…   

Crazy stuff here

But I’m no scientist—just a thinker, and I know when life begins and don’t get tripped up in this non-person thing and “choice.”  And that’s why abortion is wrong—because that is life—the embryo is life.  When that crazy sperm penetrates that egg, that tissue is alive.  It’s different and it makes choices, in a way, to stick to the uterine wall or not.  I don’t care if it’s “pre-programmed” instinct I don’t understand—but it does it and I have to believe it fights like hell to attach itself and survive.  That’s the aspect the Supreme Court back then just got wrong—and people are still getting it wrong and probably want to.  Life is more than brainwaves and manifests itself on different levels and in different ways.

What I mean is, those sperm run fast to the egg and with the same urgency a little kid runs for first in little league.  I’m probably belittling the life process here, but I’m trying to do an Al Gore Explanation so everybody can understand.

And, Son of a Gun, if it was the embryo of a damn Bengal Tiger or Siberian Tiger or some almost extinct species, people would be moving heaven and earth to keep it alive.  It wouldn’t be an embryo to those doctors and vets, it would be a baby tiger.

A single cell organism is alive. 

People are worried about seals and whales and POLAR BEARS.

AND 1.2 MILLION BABIES ARE ABORTED EACH YEAR.

ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND—EACH YEAR!!!

AND THE SAME PEOPLE WHO DEFEND THE AMERICAN RIGHT TO ABORT 1.2 HUMAN ANIMALS EACH YEAR PROTEST THE 4000 CASUALTIES OF OUR BLESSED SOLDIERS AS A REASON TO NOT FIGHT FOR FREEDOM OF PEOPLES.

IT’S WORTH ONE MILLION BABIES A YEAR TO PROTECT OUR RIGHT OF “CHOICE,” BUT IT IS NOT WORTH IT FOR A SOLDIER TO HONORABLY COMMIT HIS/HER LIFE TO DEFENDING OUR FREEDOM AND THAT OF OTHERS.

THERE WOULD BE NO “RIGHT TO CHOOSE” WITHOUT OUR FREEDOM.

Damn.  That’s how civilized we are now, that we rationalize our right to destroy 1.2 “potential human lives” each year.

And it’s a choice we are free to make.