I find it interesting that of all the reasons our founding fathers had to defend their dissension from the motherland, they started with the most basic of all rights: the right to live. It seems almost odd, considering that before the rebellion their lives weren't really at jeopardy. I think, perhaps, for the first time in a very long time our founding fathers came to the knowledge that there is something uniquely special simply about being alive, and that life itself qualifies one for certain, unalienable rights.It is because we esteem life itself with such sanctity that we have decided that their need be no other qualification or requirement for an individual to have access to the privileges and and insurances of the Bill of Rights, or for that matter, all other civil laws that have come out those rights. It is then a testament to our founding fathers that the war they fought really wasn't about themselves, for they were willing to lay down their lives for the sake of ours.
So what is so special about life? Why have we fought so hard to provide equality to all men, no matter their race, gender, religion or any other distinguishing feature that may define them? Perhaps it is only in the loss of life that we truly come to appreciate its immeasurable value. One thing is certain: life is special. It creates meaning and purpose. It turns chaos into order. It allows for emotion and experience. It is the catalyst to all knowledge.
Here is my question: how can we, as a society, truly value the sanctity of life without also showing equal reverence and respect for the process that creates life? The answer is irrefutably and absolutely we can't. This blatant and gross contradiction is so glaring and obvious that it kills me to watch our society deny it. We have literally taken the miracle of procreation and have dragged it through the filthiest, most desecrating sewage thinkable. We trample it and reduce it to little more than instant gratification. How humiliating this must be to the men and women who gave uo everything to preserve the sanctity of life.
Perhaps the most foul and evil forms of this perversion is abortion. To deny any being the right to live is to destroy the very cause for which our founding fathers fought. I absolutely hate (and I don't say that lightly) the phrase "pro-choice." When discussing abortion, there should be no talk of any kind about choices or the right to choose. Abortion has absolutely nothing to do with choice. The choice was already made. Abortion has to do with consequences and the sanctity of life.
Equally frustrating is the discussion on the beginning of life. Why does this matter? If life is so special and important, then it shouldn't matter when it scientifically begins, what should matter is the process that makes it possible. To debate over the biological formation of a fetus completely skips the more important questions: why have we allowed the desecration of procreation to reach a point where such debate should ever be necessary? Why should there ever be any desire for any life to be terminated due to pure selfishness? How could this ever be acceptable?
Abortion for any reason other than rape, incest, or severe health risks to the mother or child, is pure, unadulterated murder. There is no logical way to distinguish the effects of killing a human being before or after birth. A life is the lost either way. The unfulfilled potential of either human being will never be known in this life. Each loss is equally tragic. Somehow, just because the fetus couldn't talk yet, or walk, or be seen or held, that makes it different? Of course not. I am convinced that we have to value the sanctity of life (and the miracle that makes it possible) more than this if we are to avoid the devastation that has come to so many societies before us.
What do you think?
2 comments:
I'm totally pro-choice and pro-consequence. I am not pro-murder. There is only one way that people get pregnant, and it is almost always a choice. When it isn't (real rape), then I think abortion is ok. When it's not a choice, then the unfortunate young lady will need to face the consequences and have the child. There are plenty of willing couples ready to adopt a child, why kill it?
The current idea floating around is far too elastic. Every baby ever born represents a threat to the well-being of a mother. That is the nature of childbirth, and even the cleanest, most mundane pregnancy can be classified as "threatening" to the mother.
Heck, a distant relative even claimed that she had been raped. Luckily, she didn't want to get an abortion, but as we learned more about the alleged rape, we found out that this young lady went, alone, to the house of a young man and got drunk. That's rape as much as jumping off a cliff and claiming gravity did something wrong. Unless a sexual encounter is illegal and among unconsenting parties, rape has not occurred, and abortion is murder.
The whole abortion issue is a giant mess, and it is one of the most frustrating issues in politics today.
Ok, so recently some people have stated their positions on abortion, and it just blows me away. One friend even went so far as to say that abortion is murder, but that it should still be legal. I don't understand it. I really think the pro-abortion crowd has successfully reframed the issue in most people's minds.
But it is not about choice. It's about constitutional rights. We, the people of the United States, hold this truth to be self-evident: that all men are created equal and are endowed with the unalienable right to life. Our government has been instituted to secure this and other rights. Since a fetus was created the same way as you or I, it should enjoy the same protection.
The real question is whether or not a fetus is a human life. If it isn't, then it doesn't have a right to live and can be killed at will. However, it is extremely difficult to logically claim that a fetus becomes "created" (as the Declaration states) when it first comes out of the mother. Such a claim is equivalent to saying a plant isn't alive before its shoots crack the surface of the soil. A fetus is a living human just as much as you or I, and deserves the same rights to life that we do.
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