Sunday, October 31, 2010

Let's Talk Abortions

It's a perfect example of just how two conflicting ideas will never truly win a majority output. Neither side is right, just as neither side is wrong, though one is stronger than the other. You sense it, you feel it, if you are somewhat in tune with yourself, but you don't quite see it in front of you. What is it? What are they missing? This argument is horrible, but why? What's so horrible? They seem to be proposing reasonable arguments, some will sight religion, others science, others logic.

But you know what it is. Deep down. Just take a look closer at how their arguments exist. How does an abortion need to exist? Where does an abortion's existence come from? Both sides ignore this common ground they share, the root for their investments that plague their arguments from the moment words trickle out of their mouth... enough suspense. It's unwanted pregnancies. That's all it really is. There's an unwanted pregnancy: what do we do with it? We answered the question (obviously) multiple ways, but we chose a very controversial one. One that gained popularity, positively and negatively, quickly.

The attacks on abortion are ruthless. Religious icons find it against God's will, like we're play God himself. These are extreme ideas: they claim that rape victims are simply victims of fate, and they should bare the child and the labor of raising it, and see it as a gift from God. Of course, you can ask any rape victim if the baby they might be carrying feels like a gift of God, if they even still believe in him. But I regress, and move forward. Perhaps a more controversial topic is to say that the baby is alive. It has a heart-beat, finger-nails... limbs, vital organs... all sorts of neat things that we see in many live people. But then I also ask, weren't our skin cells alive? Yeah, those skin cells you see on the top layer were alive at one point, pushed beyond the reach of blood vessels and karatenized into a tough outter layer. What about cancer cells? Those are alive, too. Yet we feel no problem killing those. We also slay animals, for food and sustenance. I understand that there are anti-eating-animal organizations, but those are a tiny minority compared to the 4.6 billion people that reside on Earth.

The rebuttle to that is obviously it's a human life that matters, and that the death of our cells and other things allow the progress for life. A baby, however, is something that doesn't need to be slain. Live and let live, they cry.

Pro-Abortionists (not Pro-Choice, there is no such thing) simply do not believe the philosophy (their arguments are intertwined with what is above) that the anti-abortionists believe in. Which is acceptable, they certainly have a firm case.

I'm sure I've missed a few sides, a few arguments that could shut the other side(s) down, but let's not focus on that. Let's move on. Do you not see how these two sides can link together? How their arguments are terrible, having to set a definition for life and how and when to let it live. It's impossible to create a dead-line for life, just as it's impossible to tell a rape victim that she must bare the fruits of her misfortune.

I say let them unite. Let's move on past these rebuttles and these controversies, and onto something new. How about they team against unwanted pregnancies? They could take all the money and energy put into abortionist's arguments and put it towards condom promotions, birth control, and other safe-sex methods... let's teach them in high-school, have ads on TV for adults.

FORGET THE SIDES. We have made it nowhere. Let's end the need for abortion once and for all: let's stop unwanted pregnancies.

1 comment:

  1. Thank you so much for your excellent post. I live nearby in Calimesa, CA, and am very appreciative of your photos and writing. May I please have permission to use one of your photos for my post about The Garden of Angels in Calimesa? I am going there today to see my first interment, and will be there working tomorrow with Citizens Patrol in the morning for the fundraiser. I am a paraeducator in the Yucaipa/Calimesa school district. Thank you very kindly if I may use your photo. I promise not to use it in any bad way. I like to write about things in my area that are happening and the importance of those things. I believe that The Garden of Angels is a very important community site for all of us. I am glad to get to meet you on your site; thank you again for the excellent post about abortion. Peace and many blessings, Anne Copeland (Annie)

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