Jun 14 2009
The Truth About the Abortion “Discussion”
I’m now contemplating what to write about after finishing my previous series. This dangerous interim period is when I just write about whatever came to my mind in the past day or so…
Yesterday I walked past a car with one of those cute bumper stickers. I don’t remember what it said, probably something trite like “Stem-cell Research is Pro-life.”
A torrent of thoughts shot through my mind at that moment.
One of the most heated and central debates in the United States of America has basically been reduced down to cute bumper sticker catch phrases, and every one of them skirts around the real issues, and the real topic of discussion.
Listen:
Let’s think about the stuff that all reasonable people can agree upon:
1. Killing people is wrong. That’s applies to any age and for almost any reason. Hence, we have no movement which is called Anti-Life.
2. Women have the right to choose what to do with their own bodies. This applies to all circumstances. No one is walking around telling women that men or the government must make choices for them. Hence no movement called Anti-Choice.
3. Killing an abortion doctor is hypocritical, does nothing to add to the cause of those who oppose abortion, and is straight up immoral.
4. Abortion should not be used as an after-the-fact birth control. Abortion is not a replacement for personal responsibility.
That being said, the disagreements in this debate are clowded by manipulative propoganda, while the real issue is danced around by everyone, all the way up to the president of the United States.
The real issue is: What is the definition of life? The president thinks this issue is above his pay grade:
If once and for all this can become the central feature of the discussion, and through years of painstaking debate and research cand come to some type of conclusion, the debate is over.
The most ardent pro-choice activists do not think it is OK to beat a baby to death. If an unborn fetus were defined as a living being, I find it inconceivable that anyone would be amiable to the concept of an abortion.
On the other hand, if it were agreed upon that this fetus was nothing more than a temporary cosmetic blemish, then it is hard for me to understand why a woman would not be permitted to “fix” it.
What is the definition of life?
The debate begins here.
The debate ends here.
The people of our great country deserve real answers to real questions, and not catchy slogans and pithy propoganda.
Don’t we?
