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Abortion

Posted by Mark | Filed under Politics

Given that I’m wait­ing for some fresh code to come back for me to test, I fig­ured I’d take a moment to post my view on the sub­ject. If you’re sen­si­tive to these sorts of issues and would just rather skip this post; stop read­ing now. Oth­er­wise, click more…

Before I get directly into talk­ing about my views on abor­tion; I’d like to step back to look at a broader issue. Some of the anti-abortion activists make claims that:

• God is pro-life.
• By their actions of blow­ing up clin­ics and killing doc­tors, they were doing God’s work
• Abor­tion is murder

First off, I would ask if you think of your­self as hav­ing free will or if every­thing in life is pre­de­ter­mined by God. If you believe the later, than why are you going out and has­sling the clin­ics and doc­tors? After all, if every­thing is pre­de­ter­mined by God then God must have approved of what the clin­ics and doc­tors are doing. If you believe in the for­mer, then where did you get your free will from? From God per­haps? And if it is the case that God granted you the abil­ity to make your own choices in this world, then doesn’t that mean God is pro-choice?

Accord­ing to my copy of the Bible, one of the Ten Com­mand­ments that God gave to Moses was “Thou shalt not kill”. Maybe these ant-abortionists that are killing doc­tors have a dif­fer­ent Bible than I do (mine is the Good News Bible that I was given back in Sun­day School when I was reg­u­larly going to a Pres­by­ter­ian church) but every copy of the Bible I’ve ever seen does include those Ten Com­mand­ments. So if the almighty God has com­manded you to not kill; how can it be God’s work to kill doc­tors and peo­ple who work in abor­tion clinics?

The last of those 3 argu­ments is the hard­est one for me to refute because I think abor­tion can be mur­der but it depends on hen the abor­tion is per­formed. Late dur­ing the preg­nancy, I would say there is lit­tle doubt that the unborn is alive and even pos­si­bly sen­ti­nent but the ear­lier & ear­lier you get dur­ing the preg­nancy; the more ques­tion­able that becomes. Cer­tainly, the ear­li­est form of the unborn is so entirely dif­fer­ent from what we gen­er­ally con­sider to be human that I’m not sure it can be con­sid­ered human life or even be con­sid­ered to really be alive/sentinent. If an organ­ism isn’t alive, then it’s hard for me to con­sider it mur­der to remove it.

Then there’s all sorts of other issues that make pro-choice to seem to be the only rea­son­able choice to me, issues like:

• If there’s a med­ical con­di­tion that con­tin­u­ing the preg­nancy guar­an­tees that nei­ther the mother or the child will survive
• There are too many peo­ple on this planet already; we’re stretch­ing our resources too thin and you want to bring more peo­ple into this screwed up world? That’s just crazy!
• How many chil­dren are out there right now that are stuck in orphan­ages hop­ing of hav­ing parents?
• Or are out there starv­ing because they don’t have parents?

As you might have picked up by now, I’m pro-choice. Also for the record, I believe the father should be involved in the abor­tion design process but the final choice has to belong to the woman because she’s the one that has to live with a child grow­ing inside her for 9 months.

Any­way, it’s time for me to get back to work. *sigh*

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