Firstly, I believe in the sanctity of innocent life (and not for religious reasons), and guess what, the law agrees with me. That's why it's illegal to commit murder.
I believe a fetus baby is a human being. Therefore I believe abortion is murder.
Murder:
noun 1. Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder), and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder).
Before anyone sits there and starts pointing fingers at me, yes, there are extremists who bomb abortion clinics. I in no way agree with these individuals or believe that their actions are justified. They need to be locked up for a very long time and have the key thrown away. They are no better then the lowest of low.
Now that I have that out of the way. Do I believe it should be illegal? Yes, and I'll give you 3 words as to why. Adoption, adoption and adoption.
A couple screwed up (pun intended)? Why don't you take responsibility for your actions? Low-lifes. If you're not mature enough to have a kid you aren't mature enough for sex. There's always consequences to our actions; about time people learn to live with them instead of taking the easy way out.
You can't raise the kid because of monetary or other reasons? Give the fetus baby up for adoption where there's a loving family to take care of him/her.
Rape/incest. These are the most unfortunate cases ever. I understand individuals rage over the topic, and my heart really goes out to those who have been victims of this (I've known a few). What saddens me even more though, is that an innocent fetus child has to lose their life making this even more of a tragedy. I understand the pain, the humiliation and the emotion involved in these situations, but for the sake of holding on to any shred of good that may come out of it, please take the child to term and give it up for adoption. Let there be a chance of something decent to come out of it.
The woman will die unless the child is aborted? Have you seen the cases where a doctor told a pregnant woman mother that she will die if she goes through with the pregnancy, and the doctor was wrong? There's a decent number of cases actually. Now, I can understand extreme situations, but doctors are sometimes wrong. Actually, I've seen a disturbing number of cases where doctors were wrong. They are human and make mistakes just like the rest of society. This is a bit of a grey area unfortunately as each case differs immensely. I don't have all the answers and truly don't know what I would say in every situation since there's no way I can be presented with them all, but why are we so quick to throw away life?
I find it disturbing that I'm regularly called uncompassionate by individuals for my stances on people owning up to their mistakes and taking responsibility for their actions. In the same breath however, a good number of the same individuals who accuse me of this lack any compassion at all for the innocent who have done absolutely nothing wrong except for exist. We wipe them clean like a stain on a shirt. It truly makes my stomach churn at the thought.
By the way, those who believe the whole "over-population" thing, why not be first to help with the problem and line up for assisted-suicide? You'd be doing a lot more good for the over-population issue then sitting there complaining about it. Not only that, but you'd be the one making the choice, fancy that, having a choice about your own life/death. Hrmmm. Sounds like a better deal then you're giving these fetuses children.
I'm ready for the flaming, bring it on. =)
