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Because they're assuming Divine Intervention (God meant for this life to be). Yet if that is so, then won't God make that life inevitable?
These vessels we inhabit are not, in and of themselves, all that important, are they? They are all quite similar even down to the subatomic level, and an intervention might mean that this Inevitable Life will actually be born into a better situation?
In fact, we should label abortions interventions if we accept the idea of an immortal soul. If "conservatives" could wrap their minds around their own beliefs holistically, they'd conclude that no man can stop God's will.
We might even be comforted by a theory involving babies, with the idea that anyone who dies before the age of 2 gets a rebirth on the house! Maybe Hindus could help incorporate that. I figure if I can be biracial I can be bireligious.
Please keep in mind that God invented abortion - just like He created everything else. He must not have necessarily wanted to allow a fetus or zygote to kill its hostess.
Ergo, any baby that is "meant" to be born will find a proper host sooner or later.
I have a son - he's 12. He wasn't aborted, obviously. If he had been, I wouldn't know it. Neither would he. Do I value human life? I have put my own life at risk to save others, more than once.
A lady who calls abortion murder justifies this harsh reclassification with sentiments about her son: There are so many things in my life that wouldn't be if I hadn't had him.
There is no way to be sure about that. She is appealing to the unknown for her reasoning. Also, she might have had an even greater experience with another child that has never come to be because she didn't date that next guy because she had that kid, etc. ....
She is buying into the idea abortion=murder. At some point, if irresponsibly undertaken, yes. At a previous point, no. When is that point? Certainly before any kicking starts. Why? Because there are no absolutes (unless you want to start fertilizing every egg you produce - that would indeed be consistent with her line of thinking if taken absolutely) and consideration for the pre-born is the same as consideration for the dead who once were alive. Neither exist. Why should they be put before the actual living?
If I spill tears over all the near-life experiences that have been cut short, there won't be any left for the actual folks that made it here.
This kind of reasoning is like that ridiculous passage in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button where the dancer's car accident never would have happened if not for a particular chain of Rube Goldberg-like events that put her in the path of a distracted driver. Well DUH. The same can be said of every event.
Please, cut the drama. If we have no right to interfere with life, then stop spilling seed or menstruating. If you insist on a fertilized egg as the holy grail, how can we stop at the human egg? How do we know what miracles we're crushing in other species? Talk about arrogance.
Let's talk about the "Culture of Life." Let's play their "culture of death" propaganda game in reverse and extrapolate the logical consequences.
Every egg that CAN be fertilized MUST be given EVERY chance to be fertilized. This will obviously be possible in the near future. We can extract all eggs and do them in the lab, bringing all the life that God made available to fruition.
Every sperm capable of fertilizing an egg MUST be given an egg to fertilize. Soon, not a problem. We'll be able to clone eggs and make them available for the squirmy little guys.
Every woman who CAN procreate MUST procreate at the peak of her fertility. As long as she's trying, a failed egg or two will be forgiven, but beyond that she could face charges.
Likewise, every fertile male MUST reproduce as God intended. Failure to do so and proof of spilled seed gone to waste are prosecutable crimes. Wet Dream allowance is strict and not tolerated beyond puberty.
Since abortion, in the minds of the absolutists, has no differentiation of degree - whether zygote or near-birth, both are the same to them - then the components of life should be considered life, regardless of how small. And science will keep breaking them down into finer and finer pieces that are sacred.
No one in this world can speak on behalf of God. It would be cool if that kind of idiotic dialogue would cease, and stop leaching respect away from folks who might otherwise be good company.
Should we make use of all available medical procedures to promote life? Is that God's will? If not, perhaps it's time to stop intervening in difficult births with C-sections, and let God's will run its course.
It is not any kind of rational "bottom line" to maximize the psychological weight of abortion by making it sound like murder.
When I was 16 I guilted out an older girl who had an abortion and I was so convinced that I was right. That abortion was murder. And superficially, it can be labelled as such. It is true that a fetus can resemble a baby. The sonogram profile of my son at 8 weeks looked eerily like his profile at one year. A close up of my ass-cleavage looks like boobs, but it's still my ass. And a human fetus doesn't look any more like a baby than a lot of other feti.
As to the inadvertent destruction of cultural geniuses, with the dearth of great leaders now existing, it's unlikely that more births would produce very many more. A lot of doctors are downright dangerous (they perform abortions, too), and since curing cancer seems to be incredibly difficult, there is little chance that the genius who single-handedly could have done so has been aborted. More likely he/she/ it perished as a sperm, egg, zygote or fetus during a war or a traffic accident. Since we can never know such odd things, it's all drama to talk about it. Makes for a good fantasy but bad public policy.
How much bad public policy has been passed because of our arrogance and pretense of knowing the absolute truth? And that's all that it is. Pretense.
"Baby" - it sounds so cute. Would you abort little baby Hitler if a Time Machine allowed you to? Hmmm? I'd guess that a lot of you would kill him no matter what phase of life you caught him in. Hindsight.
Abortion is a medical procedure heavily regulated and monitored - when not made illegitimate and consigned to the shadows of Coat-hanger City by reactionary self-righteous "truth" mongers.
- OO
