The Right To Life

The issue of abortion has got to be by far, the most divisive issue of our time. Ever since the Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court in 1973, over 35,000,000 million unborn babies have been aborted – the overwhelming majority of them butchered by women who were not wise enough to either keep their panties on or whose method of birth control failed them. Thirty five million – more than the entire population of the state of California or that of New York and Texas combined. Had these babies been allowed to be born and been raised by loving families that would have welcomed them, we would not have the labor shortage we are dealing with now. But that’s another topic for another time.

In the ensuing time since that historic ruling, the attitudes of Americans has shifted to quite a degree, and the differences in attitudes towards abortion crosses all lines, social, economic, racial and even within families. An excellent example is that of my wife and myself. My wife does not believe that abortion is appropriate under any circumstances whatsoever; I, on the other hand, believe that it may be an option (up to the mother) only under any one of the following circumstances:

1. Pregnancy as a result of rape.

2. Pregnancy as a result of incest.

3. Life or health of mother in serious or imminent peril; or

4. The baby is deemed by competent medical authority to have defects of such magnitude so to make viability outside the womb untenable.

A poll recently conducted by the Los Angeles Times reveals an interesting picture as it pertains to the attitudes of Americans towards abortion. The upside is that only 43 percent of Americans (down from 56 percent) support legalized abortion. The downside is that more and more of those surveyed feel that the decision to kill an unborn innocent is a matter "between a woman and her doctor." I’m not sure that says a whole lot about us a nation or that it shows much hope for our future – you tell me.

I was in Washington on business just under two years ago. As I got off the Metro Rail at Capitol Hill (the Supreme Court is located just across the street), I found myself in a sea of protesters. A low-ball estimate of those present would be about 75,000. Many of them were carrying posters with graphic pictures of aborted fetuses in their protest. It was at that time I realized it was January 22nd, the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. And that was why there was such a show of force in protest of the ruling.

The initial argument that was successfully used in the 1973 ruling was that the fetus was not a human being but simply a "product of conception". The ensuing years have blown that argument clean out of the water. The fact that a fetus in its earliest developmental stages is a child under development for entry into the world is an undisputed fact – one that even the most pro-abortion advocate cannot deny. These facts are further supported by the fact that most doctors simply will not perform abortions on those grounds – and not because they fear getting their heads blown off. These doctors won’t do them because they respect the sanctity of human life and seek not to violate their Hippocratic oath that requires them to cause no harm to another person.

With a generation having passed since the ruling that turned abortions on end, one has to wonder at what age rights are bestowed upon a child. At present, the unborn have no rights and can be ‘terminated’ at will by its mother. One has to wonder if there will eventually be a minimum age for individual rights – will children have to be a certain age to have rights before the law? Will that age be five, ten or twelve or will it be eighteen when they have adult standing? Will the same standard apply to aged parents and grandparents? Does what I am writing about sound familiar? If it doesn’t, it should.

As the Nazi Party came to power in Germany in the 1930’s, we had Hitler promoting his notions of the Aryans being the ‘master race’. They claimed the right to kill Jews, gypsies and people with mental illness along with others that had assorted deformities and didn’t fit into the plans for the Master Race as envisioned by Hitler and his associates.

If there were ever a word that has hit its stride in the American lexicon, it would have to be the word feminazi – a term coined by talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Rush describes a feminazi as a feminist with an unwavering commitment to abortion. As to the feminist rhetoric about abortion, I conclude with the following quote that came from a book I read while in college back in 1982. The book was a fluff novel called "What Now, McBride?" by Gary Davis, who I believe lives in Southern California. It contained perhaps the most eloquent argument against abortion. It read:

"When a woman has an abortion, she’s not just doing something to her own body; she does something to someone else’s body. She causes the life of a completely separate individual to be taken. Court decisions and feminist rationalizations aren’t going to change that fact. When a woman becomes pregnant, she houses another person for nine months. She has no more right to take that person’s life than she does of someone who’s already been born. People who use that ‘It’s my body’ crap are only lying to themselves."

I couldn’t have put it any better myself.

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