Given the extreme
polarization between Pro-Life and Pro-Death supporters
(given that the opposite of life is death the obviously whitewashed
description commonly used term of "Pro-Choice"
avoids describing the real issue), I strongly hesitated writing
anything on this issue. I am savvy enough to know that nothing I say
will change the opinions of those on either side of the Abortion
issue. I hope that I can at least help somewhat with the following
facts.
Before starting, for the
sake of perspective on the huge scope of the Abortion issue, let's
present one startling fact - Over 63 million legal
abortions have been performed in America since the 1973 Supreme Court
decision on Roe versus Wade. 63 million human lives deliberately
ended!!
Obviously, a healthy woman
seeking an abortion never wanted to be pregnant in the first place.
There are birth control solutions to prevent pregnancies. The most
common and effective are birth control pills but they require a
prescription. There are also prophylactics that do not require a
prescription and also can prevent the spread of venereal disease.
Fortunately, the birth
control prescription pills themselves are cheap, but does require a
doctor's visit which may not be cheap depending on a person's
insurance coverage. However, that doctor's visit will be a lot
cheaper than the cost of a future abortion.
About 100 nations permit
non-prescription birth control pills to be sold as they are proven
safe for over 50 years. There are no age limits as to who can
purchase them. America needs to do the same. This will prevent
many unwanted pregnancies and therefore significantly reduce the
number of women with unwanted pregnancies seeking abortions.
Fortunately in 2023, the FDA has just approved the sale of the
non-prescription birth control pills called Opill. They are predicted
to be available to the public in 2024. Other birth control pills
will still require a prescription. So the FDA needs to go further.
Hopefully, we can all agree
with the following facts which should be very obvious:
1. The fetus of a
pregnant woman seeking an abortion is alive. If the fetus is
dead, than the woman would suffer a miscarriage and there would be
nothing to discuss.
2. The fetus itself is
"human". That's not a frog or turtle or some other
creature inside a pregnant woman's body. That's a human life.
Given those two facts,
the definition of an abortion is the deliberate killing of a human
life. Reminder, just in America, over 63 million lives have been
deliberately terminated since 1973.
For doctors who perform an
abortion, you took a Hippocratic oath "to do no harm".
How does you deliberately ending a human life equate to "to do
no harm"? Logically, it doesn't.
The case of two premature
births and how they are treated:
1.
A woman goes into premature labor at 6 months pregnancy and delivers
a baby. Doctors work intensively to save the baby's life
and succeed. The baby goes on
to live a full life.
2.
Another woman seeks and gets an abortion at the same facility at 6
months pregnant at the same time as the woman in point 1. The baby is
alive after the abortion. Doctors just leave the baby alone
and let it die.
How can anyone justify
saving the first baby and letting the second baby die?
Most
Americans believe in God and believe in life after death where the
good will be rewarded and the evil will be punished. Most Americans
also believe in the Ten Commandments with the most important one
being - "Thou Shall Not Kill". Therefore, what
does God think of Abortion would be a relevant issue for most
Americans to contemplate.
There seemingly are only
two possibilities of God's thoughts on Abortion:
1. Abortion is a
violation of the Commandment - Thou Shall Not Kill".
If God
believes this, then abortion is murder, and the punishment would be
eternal hell for the women having abortions, and also the doctors and
the medical assistants performing the abortions.
OR
2. Abortion is a woman's
right.
If God
believes this, then interfering with a woman's right to an abortion
is potentially a punishable sin. So what would be the punishment for
taking actions that allow a fetus to live against a woman's wishes?
Whatever the punishment would be, it has to be less than the
punishment for the worst of all sins - murder.