Gotta Weigh In Here

A friend of mine has put some comments on Facebook about abortion lately. I've submitted a comment, gotten a response to it and now have more to say. So rather than do it on Facebook I will do it here.

My friend was celebrating the fact that one of her children’s friends just had a birthday on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and that this friend was adopted instead of the mother choosing abortion. What prompted my initial response was someone had pointed out to her that the woman had the CHOICE. Below are the results of a pro-abortion survey (http://www.holysmoke.org/fem/fem0543.htm). This survey is old but this article gives more current support to it.

Reasons given by women for having abortions. (1987 survey by Alan Guttmacher Institute Table 1)

Concerned about how having a baby could change her life 76%
Can't afford baby now 68%
Problems with relationship or wants to avoid single parenthood 51%
Unready for responsibility 31%
Doesn't want others to know she has had sex or is pregnant 31%
Not mature enough, or is too young to have a child 30%
Has all the children she wanted, or has all grown-up children 26%
Husband or partner wants the abortion to happen23%
Fetus has possible health problem 7%
Parents want her to have abortion 7%
Victim of rape or incest 1%
Other 6%

Most of the reasons involve convenience/selfishness, are they really worthy reasons to chose to kill a baby? The common reasons pro-abortionists use to justify abortion are in the bottom 4 reasons on this survey. At what point does a human “fetus” become a human being? It is ridiculous to say that a baby of 34 weeks gestation can be killed by abortion because a woman chose it but one who is born naturally at 34 weeks cannot be “aborted” the next day if the woman chose it. What’s the difference? As long as the head remains inside the woman murder is okay? The expected and natural consequence of sex is pregnancy (creation of life). If a woman (or man) doesn't want that there are other ways to CHOSE not to get pregnant in the first place and avoid the murderous CHOICE of abortion not to mention the adoption choice as well.

I then received a comment, "i don't believe anyone is "pro" abortion". Here is my response to that. No matter how much perfume you pour into the outhouse it's still an outhouse and it still stinks! Partial-birth abortion and intact dilation and extraction are the SAME thing (murder of a human being). One phrase just doesn't sound as bad as the other. People don’t hear the term pro-choice and think, “Oh, that person is for letting people chose their healthcare plan (or to not have health insurance if they decide).” They don’t see a pro-choice bumper sticker and say, “That person is all for taxing the uber rich to better distribute money to the poor so they can pay for college.” If a person claims to be pro-choice everyone knows it means they think abortion (murder of a baby) is okay. But if a person chooses to collect guns or use wood burning as a means of heating their home many of the same people who tout a woman’s right to chose will shout and holler and try to regulate that persons choice to own a gun or burn wood. One is choosing murder the other self-sufficiency.

Then of course there is the pro-abortion argument that pro-lifers only support teaching of abstinence and not contraceptive use and vice versa (I think both should be taught). This leads into a whole conversation about how abstinence needs to be taught with the foundation of absolute moral principles which are non-existent in the public school system (replaced by moral relativism)due to the misconstrued claim of separation of church and state and political correctness. When only one side of the coin is shown/taught there really is no freedom of choice. Now that's not to say parents have no responsibility here but....I could go on and on but here ends my tale... for now.