Tuesday, September 14, 2004

A political rant! Yaaaayyyy!!
A loooooong political/moral rant...

I was floating around a forum just now and found a thread on where you stand in all kinds of different areas. The first area was abortion. Every single person who posted to that thread (as far as I dared read) said "pro-choice". Sometimes I wonder if they really know what they are talking about.

Abortion is not like a a tonsilectomy, or plastic surgery, or picking off a scab, or whatever. It is not entirely your body that is involved in abortion. In fact, the life most at risk is that of an unborn but still human child. Everyone is outraged when they hear of children suffering, and leaving infants in unsafe conditions, but those same people shrug and say, "It's the woman's choice," about abortion. Abortion kills. Let's face it: Even though the child has not come out of the womb yet (though there are methods that wait that long; disgusting), it is alive. It has human features, even very early on, and it has forming organs and a brain. When abortion is performed, someone dies. It's usually the child. The more defenseless one, the one who has no say in whether or not he or she even lives to see the light of day. Yes, it is the woman's choice as to whether or not she wants to abort her child, but it's everyone's choice right now as to whether or not to grab a gun and shoot anyone who comes our way. It's everyone's choice if they will kill or not kill. It's everyone's responsibility. And so the current situation boils down to this: Murderers of people already born go to prison, murderers of children who aren't have nothing to worry about.
The gift of sex and sexuality is also a responsibility. Sex is meant mainly for procreation, not simple pleasures, so it's likely the result of it will be a child, as intended. This child is the result of your actions (you too, guys, she didn't make that kid all by herself), and it is completely in your care. We have to take care of ourselves and the things around us that can't do anything for themselves. Several hundred children died in a school in Russia recently; several hundred children die every day in the US.
What I can't understand is how people can look at a picture of a bloody, dead fetus, that looks so human and fragile, and say, "Go ahead." What I can't and never will understand is how people can say that the partial-birth abortion methods are okay too. Now the child is even in daylight, alive, and the doctors go ahead and suck his brain out anyway. What a horrible way to die. What if a doctor came to your house one day and said, "Hey there, enjoying life? Yeah? Well, your mom said she doesn't want you right now, so hold still while I stick a tube in your head and suck your brain out through it." People grimace at the thought of Egyptians pulling dead people's brains out through their noses with a hook, and think that removing the brain of a living creature is all right because the mommy or daddy doesn't want to deal with the product of the night they got carried away. (If you haven't puked by now, maybe I should go into gory details.) This is exactly what is happening all the time. Mom or Dad say they can't handle having a kid right now, they don't love each other anymore, school is in the way, they don't have enough money, something along those lines. They go to the doctor, they ask to have their baby aborted, and voila, one dead human and no one's been arrested.
There are some cases in which I might consider abortion a rational choice. For instance, if having the child will kill the mother. In fact, I think that's the only situation that got past my strict no-death radar. And if the method of baby-killing chosen happened to be partial-birth abortion, well, the mother is probably going to be dead by then anyway. So partial-birth, at least, is completely ruled off. And then there are noble mothers everywhere who hear the risks they are taking by bringing new life into the world, and they decide to try anyway. Many of them survive. One case I know of in particular is that of my old principal, Sister Kathleen. Her mother was supposed to die when she was born, but she didn't. And if Sr.'s mom had backed down from the challenge, a life would have been wasted needlessly.
And for my last paragraph, if you aren't completely convinced that a fetus is a human, too. Well, first off, the Latin meaning of fetus is "little one". Not "almost alive but not really" or "not human because it doesn't have hair" or whatever you might have thought. So using that word will not get around any barriers. Second off, even if it doesn't look like that little being is really a human being with a soul and a mind and all the wonderful qualities of a human, it will someday. Every unborn child has a future. For all we know, the babies being killed today could have grown up to be great scientists, or doctors, or politicians, or even music or movie stars. But we'll never know now, because you only get one chance at life, and some people think stealing that chance away is just a simple choice, like trimming one's fingernails.

If all else fails, adopt your kid out. At least then they're alive. Duh.
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