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Saturday, July 22, 2023

Abortion

 

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.

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