We can see with our own eyes living premature babies, yet
those helpless innocent bodies are literally carved up and poisoned in unspeakable manners.
Though there is much debate, we must consider if human rights should be due in full force to the
fetus at conception, and I think all honest people must realize that fetuses in the latter stages are
developing, viable humans. The idea that the abortion of a fetus
is any more tolerable due to the the fact that the fetus had
never been "awake," or could never have previously been recognized
as an adult person is irrelevant as to the rights of the growing baby.
Ethically, all people should have innate human rights. An unborn baby
is never part of the mothers body. The fetus is as unique
as her parents before her.
Though it is not the easy way out, it would be a fearsome
thing to shoulder the burden of death by choosing a timestamp for life
during pregnancy that has any chance of being in error. Some people
choose abortion as an easy way out of the burden of raising their child. However,
the evil of resorting to the easy way out can be seen in the
"deadbeat dad" who does not want the burden of supporting the life he helped create. I submit that aborting a fetus to escape the challenges of child raising is at least as terrible as the actions of the "deadbeat dad."
"Either the fetus is a person or not. Either we know
what it is or we don't. This leaves only 4 possibilities:
- A fetus is not a person, and we know that. This has
NEVER been any evidence to support this.
- A fetus is a person, and we know that. Killing an
innocent person knowingly is murder.
- A fetus is a person, and we do not know that. Killing a
person without knowing or intending to is manslaughter. It's
like shooting at a sudden movement in a bush which
may be a deer or another hunter.
- A fetus is not a person, and we do not know that. If the
hunter didn't know for sure and shot anyway, it is criminal
negligence, even if no one was killed."
Abortion might be three things-- murder, manslaughter,
or criminal negligence-- each of which is not debated but
instinctively condemned.
--Choices, by Peter Kreeft
With advancements in medical technology we are facing more ethical
questions about people on the fringes of life and death. Dying patients
may survive for years, dependent on expensive machines for life functions.
The basic question in these human rights questions is, "Can people,
dependent on others for essential life functions, ethically be
treated with any less value or dignity by the supporting person(s)?"
Can we ethically say NO for dying patients, yet still say YES for the
infant within the womb? If so, how much respect for life, and respect for our
own life, could we really lay claim too?
Consistency dictates that if we say YES for the infant and attach little
value to the infant due to it's dependent state, then we need not attach value
to the life of an elderly person dependent on life support technology or
incuring great expense to prolong the dying process.
Does it make a difference that we can talk with the elderly person, that
we can look at her eyes? There should be no double standard. Fetuses should be treated with all the respect for life that elderly people are given.
Imagine yourself an honest German citizen in the early 1940's.
Imagine hearing the radio propaganda desensitizing the masses and labeling
the Jews as trash and useless. What if you learned that thousands of Jews
where being rounded up and extinguished in gas chambers. Wouldn't
you feel a sense of horror that your own government could treat
people with such evil? Wouldn't you feel like an evil force
had suddenly darkened the skies of good?
Today you are sitting at the computer reading, but when you see the
sunrise tomorrow, will it still haunt you, like a suddenly gloomy sky,
that within the span of one presidential term we will have terminated
as many of our babies as the Nazi's did Jews?
Sad and awkward as it might be to realize, we live in the midst of
evil, and there will always be evil as long as human nature has the capacity for evil. Nevertheless,
if there was something simple you could do to help change it, would you try?
Consider yourself a Pro-life supporter and vote for
candidates who will turn the tide in favor of life. If you do not
vote, politicians simply will not care.
The following links go directly to fascinating reading on the
subject in which being right is a matter of life and death:
For a better understanding of human development during pregnancy see...
For a better understanding of fetal pain during abortion see...
Fetal pain during
abortion
Atrocious pain of babies during abortion
Ethical analysis of abortion...
abortionfacts.com is a very informative, indepth website with many links where one can learn about abortion, including a complete description of the types of abortions, when they are performed, and how often.
Read about one of the world's ultimate horrors, population control...
Defector reveals the horror of China's one-child law
Chinese unveil "mobile abortion clinics"
Extensive abortion statistics by type and world location gives the magnitude of the abortion injustice.
Helpful avenues for women with crisis pregnancies...
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