Abortion

Thought for the day. Be grateful and happy and enjoy your family.

Okay. Today it was either Geitner, abortion or torture. Nice topics for morning conversation. Don’t have time for torture. That’ll be another day. Geitner I've filed seperately.


Abortion.
The Preamble to the Constitution says
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

So justice is important. As is domestic tranquility. And the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

The IV th amendment allows:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

So I’m allowed to be secure in my person (against search and seizure, but I think the intent was to be secure in general.)

On the competing side is that murder (the unlawful killing of another human being with intent-or other similar definitions) is illegal, and is most religious codes, wrong.

From a legal standpoint it has been determined that the killing of an embryo is not unlawful, therefore murder does not occur.

My opinion
Let’s be short. I may delve more into this later. Amoebas are alive. Trees are alive. Grass is alive. Babies, from the point of conception, are definitely alive. (Hopefully you all agree with me so far.) Is the embryo human? To me, clearly the answer is also yes. Is it a giraffe? No. Is it a bird? No. It is a human embryo. Also to me, easy. Is killing the human embryo wrong? Sure it’s wrong. It’s hard to argue that intentionally killing something (not talking capital punishment here-it’s an innocent life at this point) that may be a functioning member of society is right. Also, easy. So what’s the problem? The extras. What are the extras?


Shouldn’t a woman be secure in her person. Shouldn’t she be able to decide what’s right for her and her family. Isn’t the individual allowed to make these decisions for themselves and their family. In many cases we are allowed to decide to die. In many cases we are allowed to make decisions to refuse medical treatment that may save our lives or our children’s lives.
What about the other argument prochoicers always make: rape and incest. I’m there. I wouldn’t want to carry my attackers baby for 40 weeks. No way. (I do think that this is a very small % of the total number of abortions.)

What should we do as a country? I agree that pro choice is the way to go. But I don’t want it to be easy. I think it should be hard. I think it should be looked down upon with a small degree of moral outrage. I think it should be discouraged. I think that there should be other options, adoption, foster care that should be put in place to minimize this scourge. I think that the government (which of course means us) should pay for this. I think that once a child is given up for adoption, he is given up, and that no court in the land can overturn an adoption. This is one of the many reasons that adoption doesn’t work well in this country.

And this, like every decision we make, will be with us, forever.