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These post may be graphic and upsetting, do not read if you are easily upset. I am holding no punches.
Please read this post first.
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I do love God's timing, because as I was giving these articles some thought a news story came up. A lady became pregnant, and about four months into the pregnancy found out she had severe cancer. She made a choice to not seek treatment for the cancer because it would kill the child.
What an honorable women. I don't know her religious stances in life, but making a decision like this tells me she had to be in some relationship with her maker.
The argument for abortion will sometimes start of with why their needs to be exceptions:
Incest, rape, mothers health, and birth defects.
Now I have a wife and a daughter and while I pray that none of this comes to them, what makes these valid reasons to kill a child? While the first two are disgusting crimes against the women, is that an OK to kill an innocent child? While rape is a violent crime, the child will likely come full term and be just fine. And while incest has increased risk of birth defects, its only 6 to 7 % for first cousins.. so that's still a lot of healthy babies that would be killed. Both of these issues are mainly issues due to social views that it is sad (AND IT IS) that a person not only got raped, but got pregnant. And socially we do (and in many ways rightfully so) think it is gross that relatives (sometimes by force which makes it even worse) have children, is that a reason to kill a child? Why not punish the adults? If it is socially unacceptable.
Then you have the mothers health. See the story linked to above. What a decision this mom made. Honorable. But some things are worth dying for... isn't a baby one of those things? Plus most health issues aren't really life threatening, just life altering. Maybe it means your bed ridden for 9 months, but again isn't a baby worth it?
Finally you have birth defects. Again, what makes these children defective? I remember when I was a teenager I worked at Pizza Hut, a customer came in with a child that was obviously not right. This child (named Rhapsody) had a birth defect of the heart, she had been in and out of Children's hospital with her issues.. while I don't remember if they detected this before birth or not.. it would be detected today (and I do believe it was then). This child would have been an option for abortion. Why? She was a very precious little girl. Worth death? Just for being sick?
Now lets take all these issues and lets say that these are the ONLY reasons abortions are allowed (as this is the reason why some folks say that it should be allowed), do you really think this would support even one abortion clinic being open? The number of needed abortions would be so low that there would be no need for every single clinic we have.
Abortion, far and away, is a life choice that folks are making not because of the issues above, but because they don't want the child. The time isn't right, the money isn't there... since when is that a reason to kill a baby? Why stop with babies? How about your old mom or dad? Or you when you get older?
You can't tell me that there were 1.2 Million cases of incest, rape, mothers health, and birth defect issues in 2004. I would be willing to bet that the 99.9% of these are for no reason other then they don't want the child. A stunning number, Just under 1 in 4 pregnancies end in abortion. Just under 1 in 4... so sad. (http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Jan08/nv011708.html)
Now what also gets me here is that many liberals will say, how can you be pro-war, pro-death penalty, and anti-abortion.
My answer to that is, our wars are very precise in taking out mainly enemy combatents... while there is the occasionsal death of an innocent person, the purpose of a war is not to kill the innocent, but the guilty. Plus in many wars, lets take Iraq as an example, the amount of innocent deaths before the war far out numbered them after the war. Saddam was an evil man... The death penalty is meant for guilty folks, and while there is the occasional miss step in this... even that is slowly starting to disappear due to DNA evidence that is becoming so much better in showing who is truly guilty. But again, this is aimed at the guilty not the innocent. Could the death penalty use some significant tweaking? Sure... but not abolishment. Abortion is aimed at the innocent, there never is a guilty child.
But my question to you, is how can you be pro-abortion, yet anti death penalty and anti war? I can actually stomach anti-war, anti-death penalty, anti-abortion folks... really shows the priority of that persons views. But the fact remains that it is generaly a two out of three thing, you are either proabortion and anti-war and anti-death penalty or you are the opposite.