That's how it's presented: as an issue of a woman's individual rights. I'm not denying that women have certain inalienable rights, just as men do. I'm not arguing that their rights are in any way inferior or subservient to the rights of men, or that their rights ultimately come from men. All are created equal.
It's just that, as a man, I don't have the right to murder a baby either.
I want to leave no doubt in anyone's mind where I stand on this issue. I have no right to kill an unborn child, no matter how unexpected or ill-planned it may be. A baby in its mother's womb is a person deserving of the law's protection just as much as you, or I, or anyone else is. A child not yet born is the least deserving person of the death penalty, and make no mistake: abortion is a child being killed for someone else's actions.
I'm not one of those weasels who says that while I can't condone abortion, I can't make that decision for anyone else. That logic is ridiculous; apply it to any other criminal situation and see how well it works. "I can't condone armed robbery, but you have the right to make your own decision." "Beating up old ladies isn't something I'd ever do, but it may be right for you." "Arson is a personal choice ... keep your laws off my gas can!"
In this country we go so far as to say that a minor who wants an abortion shouldn't be required to consult her parents -- who are legally responsible and liable for her -- about "reproductive strategies". This, in a nation where a school can be sued into nonexistence for giving a child baby aspirin without written permission.
Why is this particular right so sacred to so many people? Why are laws limiting the ability to kill babies considered a "War on Women"? I'm guessing that it's because of the simple fact that we in the modern West worship our genitals.
It's true. Anything to do with sex is sacred. The great cultural conflicts of the last forty years have been about one thing: who sticks what in whom, and to what effect. Sex has been recast from a means of reproduction to a means of gaining self-esteem; no matter what else society may despise you for, they can no longer question how you get off. And because getting off is where babies come from, they become just another variable to be reset as we wish.
Everyone has the right to screw who/what/where/how/when/whyever they want, but no one has to take responsibility for what happens. A child -- an innocent human life -- is nothing more than an accessory, to be kept or flushed depending on how we feel at the time.
Guess what, ladies? If you're not ready to have a child, don't have sex. That's a pretty sure-fire way of making sure you don't get pregnant. Men, the same goes for you. Don't want the responsibility of caring for a woman and the child the two of you made? Then keep it in your pants. Problem solved.
Someone is surely thinking about rape and incest right now, since those are the standard go-to arguments. Surely I'm not suggesting that a woman should have to keep a child fathered by a rapist? No, actually I'm suggesting that if rape warrants the death penalty, it should be inflicted upon the rapist, not upon the one being involved who could have had nothing at all to do with the crime. If a man robbed a bank, you wouldn't lock up his child; why would you kill a baby because his father committed an heinous crime?
Well, what about birth defects? It's a fact that Down's syndrome has nearly been eliminated in the West, though unlike polio or smallpox, it wasn't through some great scientific advance. Instead, we just killed off those who might have been born with it. We culled the unfit. We decided what was acceptable in our culture and did away with anything that didn't measure up. Sound familiar?
Hitler is seen as the greatest monster in history for doing exactly what many consider a fundamental human right today. The only difference is that in most cases, the Nazis' victims were born before they were murdered. Oh, and they killed a lot fewer people.
You know what? I'm tired of ranting. I'm disgusted at the blatant evil of human beings who would slaughter children in order to continue enjoying themselves without inconvenience. I know I probably went completely incoherent a while back, and more ranting won't do any good.
God have mercy on us. God have mercy.
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