Abortion Lunacy

Damn, I wish I could write like Bulldog.

In lieu of that and to those of you who are “pro-choice” (whatever that means), let me offer this bit…

Wanting to actually see the information everybody on the “right-to-life” side of the issue was quoting, I started trolling around the individual state’s reports on abortion statistics. I stopped after 3 states; I figured that since all three were reporting essentially the same percentages as each other, and the same as the claims I’ve read, I was on pretty safe ground repeating them.
From this, I will offer the following as factual information: Approximately 3% of all abortions are performed for the sake of the mother’s health. Those performed as a result of rape or incest are vanishingly small. By all means, if you have information to the contrary that has nothing to do with your feelings on the matter - just the facts, ma’am – educate the rest of us.
The conclusion is inescapable: About 97% of all abortions carried out in this country are nothing more than birth control. So, what is it that is being terminated in these elective procedures? Rather than give you my answer, let me take you through a series of hypothetical scenarios.

1. You are 47 years old. Someone shoots you, while you are not a threat. Have you been murdered?
2. You are 10 years old. Someone shoots you. Have you been murdered?
3. You are 1 year old. Someone shoots you. Have you been murdered?
4. You have been out of the birth canal for 10 seconds. Someone shoots you. Have you been murdered?
5. You are 10 seconds away from birth. Someone shoots you through your mother’s body. She wanted you. Have you been murdered?
6. You are 3 months away from birth. Someone shoots you through your mother’s body. She wanted you. Have you been murdered?
7. You were conceived 14 days ago. Someone shoots you through your mother’s body. She wanted you. Have you been murdered?
8. You were conceived 1 minute ago. Someone shoots you through your mother’s body. She wanted you. Have you been murdered?

Presumably, you answered “yes” to at least the first 4 scenarios, because the life of a human being was taken. If you changed your answer at any point, you have made the decision that your status as a human being – and deserving the protection that we afford them - is determined by some event that can be predicated by the length of time that has passed since you were conceived. What is that event, and what empirical evidence do you have to support its occurrence? In other words, when did you change from being non-human to human, what occurred when you did, and how do you know it occurred? Fact is, you have no answer based on knowledge, only faith.
Remember this the next time you try to justify your position as “pro-choice”: you have exactly zero empirical evidence that a human being is anything other than a human being from the moment of conception. You may say I have no empirical evidence that we are humans from conception. Agreed. My position is also one of faith, but it has the advantage of logic, the support of Psalm 139 and the first chapter of Jeremiah, and the fact that the consequences of my being wrong don’t result in the murder of millions, as yours does if you are wrong.
Then, let’s change the last four scenarios by saying your mother didn’t want you. Do you agree that your worth at this moment is determined by whether anyone else, your mother included, wants you? If your mother changed her mind about it when you were 10, would it have been alright for her to have killed you? Would it be alright 12 weeks after conception? Oops, we’re back to that non-human/human thing you can’t answer.
I find it curious that any normal woman would be outraged at the idea that her worth is determined by whether or not a man wants her, and rightly so, but yet so many of these same women will say that an unborn baby’s worth is justifiably determined by whether the mother wants him, or her. Kind of reminds me of those loony broads who want to strike a blow at a patriarchal society by getting married and keeping their Daddy’s name…
Remember, 97%...
I’ll be back to debunk more abortion “facts”, and to talk about the remaining three percent.