Thursday, November 09, 2006

A NON-CHRISTIAN VIEW ON ABORTION.......

World estimations of the number of terminations carried out each year is somewhere between 20 and 88 million.

Over 3,500 per day / Over 1.3 million per year in America alone.

50% of that 1.3 million claimed failed birth control was to blame.

A further 48% had failed to use any birth control at all.

And 2% had medical reasons.

That means a staggering 98% of unwanted pregnancies may have been avoided had an effective birth control been used.

I am a 98% pro-lifer, 2% Pro-choicer, who has no religious convictions at all .
I didn't need the fear of god or anything else to come to my decision, just a good sense of what is right and wrong.
You see we were all once a fetus. Is it beyond the realm of possibilities that when your mother first learned she was carrying you, she may have considered her options?
What if she had decided to terminate? Would that have been OK? You would not exist, if you have children they would not exist, and your (husband or wife) would be married to someone else. You would have been deprived of all your experiences and memories.
In this day and age with terminations being so readily available and so many being carried out, if you make it to full term you can consider yourself lucky.

Lucky you had a mother that made the choice of life for you.

Don't you think they all deserve the same basic human right, LIFE?

At the point of conception is when life began for you. This was the start of your existence. Your own personal big bang. Three weeks after conception heart started to beat. First brain waves recorded at six weeks after conception. Seen sucking thumb at seven weeks after conception.

Though it pains me to say it , there may always be a need for the 2% medical reasons and such, but that's all.

So how do we get the other 98% to be responsible...................

How do we get them to be honest with themselves, about when life begins.

egg+sperm = human being

Sadly many prefer an occasional abortion, over using birth control, they have all kinds of reasons, each of them selfish.

Then there's the christian impossition,(all a bit talibanish), and their men in high places.(church and state should never entwine) their stance against birth control has only added to the numbers.

People should be able to choose to use birth control, to avoid having to make another choice.

Sanity must provale, abortions should remain available and safe to the 2% and such and the rest need to have a good look at themselves and get their act together.

People need to stop using abortion as birth control.....

I'd like to see effective birth control made available to all who can't afford it.........


If conception is NOT when life begins,
and a clump of cells is just that and not a living human being.

Then at least concider this-

Soon after you were conceived you were no more than a clump of cells. This clump of cells was you at your earliest stage, you had plenty of growing to do but this clump of cells was you none the less. Think about it. Aren't you glad you were left unhindered to develope further.

Safe inside your mother's womb until you were born.


Want to know how to find humanity-?

True humanity can only be achieved, by concidering others/ caring about others, as much as, if not more than yourself.

Until we do we are no more than an uncivilisation,
with all the uncivilised things that we do...

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3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Aus Blog,
I posted several posts in response to your comments and to this article that you wrote. Thank you for the civil exchange of ideas.
Swallowed Scroll

2:03 PM  
Blogger kayakdave said...

I personally am pro-life. My public stand is pro-choice. My reasons are to a large part already noted in this post. A number of pro-life people are also against any form of birth control. IF we are not allowed birth control, abortions will only skyrocket.
Anthropologists (or is it Archeologists?) find evidence of infanticide going back thousands of years. Abortion is simply infanticide done early. It is a medical procedure that has only recently become comparatively safe. I see no difference between taking a newborn and bashing it’s head against a rock and abortion. Infanticide and abortion, I assume, are not undertaken lightly. In the past there is almost always evidence of ecological stress ( food shortage for example) or war in conjunction with infanticide. Today many of those seeking abortion, I again assume, have some compelling reason to seek one. Can’t afford a(nother) mouth to feed and such. Is it not merciful to kill the infant if it’s life would be with a drug addicted mother unable, or unwilling, to care for it? I don’t know the answers. I only know what’s right to me. I will not force my pro-life opinion on others, that too is wrong.

3:33 PM  
Blogger Cameron said...

I come from a different background, but have a similar viewpoint as you do. I am a Christian, so my religious convinctions are important to me. But I am also both embarrassed and ashamed at the actions of most Christians in positions of power today. I guarantee you that if they are acting with arrogance, closed minds or bigotry, they are not accurately portraying the very fundamental beliefs of Christianity. I do not claim to be in any sort of community with people like that. I follow Christ. I do not follow "Christians." And I firmly believe that He agrees that the problem here is not so much abortion as it is unwanted pregnancy. If we are able to alleviate unwanted pregnancy, the need for abortion in most cases will end as well. It is not a religious conversation although many would like to make it one. It is plain and simple a human right and wrong situation. Effective birth control must be made available to all who want or need it. But I believe that along with birth control, sex education in schools should make efforts to be more effective or at least more educating. It is the responsibility of parents to speak with their children, it can be the responsibility of the church or the school if those situations arise. But when it comes down to it, it is not an issue of stopping abortion at the abortion clinic level. Making abortion illegal doesn't solve a problem, it creates a completely new one where those women who have already decided they want an abortion will find somewhere to go to get one and end up getting more sick or hurt than they ever would have any other way. Attempting to stop abortion when it is already at the point where they have decided to have an abortion is stepping in way too late. Effective, available birth control along with planned parenthood clinics who offer education and contraception and other sex education measures is a necessary solution to the problem. And anyone who thinks otherwise is simply arrogant and ignorant of the situation at hand.

9:37 AM  

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