Abortion
The credo of the liberal mind is a single question: "Who is it hurting?"
If you've ever cornered someone with a series of tough questions on subjects like same sex marriage or the legality of smoking marijuana, more often than not you've heard this question. "If two men want to get married, who does it hurt? How does it affect you?"
The dispute over abortion is whether or not the fetus growing in a woman's womb is a living human being. If it is, then there is a clear answer to the question, "You're hurting a defensless human baby." But the liberals frame the argument in a different way. They choose to make the argument about the rights of the mother, because if they didn't they would have no case. As more and more scientific research comes out, it is more and more clear that the unborn fetus is indeed a human being, from the very moment of conception. But wait, we don't want to hear this. The ability to abort a fetus allows us to engage in all manner of sexual escapades as often as we like with as many partners as we like, and we don't have to face any responsibilities for such actions. Sounds rather selfish, doesn't it?
"Wait a minute, you chauvinist, conservative jerk!" You scream at me sharply, irritated at my arrogance as I try to take away your charished right as an American to do whatever you want, "what about rape? Or when the mother's life is in danger?" These are good questions. I'm not saying abortion in all its forms should necesarrilly be outlawed completely. I'll tell you right now if I was forced to choose between my wife or our baby, I'd choose my wife. However, these cases make up something like 3% of all abortions in this country, so that isn't much of an argument to stand on.
But hey, what do I know? I'm just a guy, right? I don't have to carry the thing for nine months. I don't know how terrible it can be, both physically and emotionally, to be pregnant for the better part of a year. Funny though, bringing a baby into this world used to be a beautiful thing, perhaps the greatest thing any woman could ever hope to accomplish. But that's so old-fasioned and oppressive of me to say, woman are much more than just baby-making machines and housewives...of course, that isn't what I said, is it?
You want to know who you're hurting, fine, I'm telling you. If you choose not to listen, that isn't my fault. I only have one question for you. If there was even the smallest possibiltiy that the lump of flesh growing in your womb is a living person...a person with a soul...would you really take the chance? As you protest this war in Iraq because innocent people are dying everyday, think about how important human life really is to you, and what it's worth.
If you've ever cornered someone with a series of tough questions on subjects like same sex marriage or the legality of smoking marijuana, more often than not you've heard this question. "If two men want to get married, who does it hurt? How does it affect you?"
The dispute over abortion is whether or not the fetus growing in a woman's womb is a living human being. If it is, then there is a clear answer to the question, "You're hurting a defensless human baby." But the liberals frame the argument in a different way. They choose to make the argument about the rights of the mother, because if they didn't they would have no case. As more and more scientific research comes out, it is more and more clear that the unborn fetus is indeed a human being, from the very moment of conception. But wait, we don't want to hear this. The ability to abort a fetus allows us to engage in all manner of sexual escapades as often as we like with as many partners as we like, and we don't have to face any responsibilities for such actions. Sounds rather selfish, doesn't it?
"Wait a minute, you chauvinist, conservative jerk!" You scream at me sharply, irritated at my arrogance as I try to take away your charished right as an American to do whatever you want, "what about rape? Or when the mother's life is in danger?" These are good questions. I'm not saying abortion in all its forms should necesarrilly be outlawed completely. I'll tell you right now if I was forced to choose between my wife or our baby, I'd choose my wife. However, these cases make up something like 3% of all abortions in this country, so that isn't much of an argument to stand on.
But hey, what do I know? I'm just a guy, right? I don't have to carry the thing for nine months. I don't know how terrible it can be, both physically and emotionally, to be pregnant for the better part of a year. Funny though, bringing a baby into this world used to be a beautiful thing, perhaps the greatest thing any woman could ever hope to accomplish. But that's so old-fasioned and oppressive of me to say, woman are much more than just baby-making machines and housewives...of course, that isn't what I said, is it?
You want to know who you're hurting, fine, I'm telling you. If you choose not to listen, that isn't my fault. I only have one question for you. If there was even the smallest possibiltiy that the lump of flesh growing in your womb is a living person...a person with a soul...would you really take the chance? As you protest this war in Iraq because innocent people are dying everyday, think about how important human life really is to you, and what it's worth.
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