Abortion

This is a repost of a prior blog entry.

January 23, 1973, is a day that will be forever knitted in the fabric of our society. On that day abortion was made legal in the United States. There has been many protest and demonstrations made since that cold winter day. We now find ourselves in 2006 looking back over the past 33 years. We hear from the pro-life side the old and tired statistic stating the “40 million abortions since 1973” argument. This number is false, period. Extrapolating numbers from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice think tank, we are currently at about 48 Million fetuses killed since 1973. By this time next year there will be close to 50 million fetuses aborted with approximately 96% being for reasons of conveyance, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

Within the abortion debate this question must be answered. Is there a significant enough difference between a fetus and a baby that would warrant calling the baby a human, and the fetus a non-human? Would anyone, other the Pete Singer, ethics chair at Princeton University, seriously suggest that a baby is not a person? Scott Klusendorf suggests there are only four differences between between a fetus and newborn baby. If any of these four differences fail, the fetus may not be human and may be terminated at will. I would go so far as to say if the fetus is not human, the government should gladly pay for abortions at the will of the mother till birth. So let us take a moment and carefully examine these four differences between a fetus and you.

First, there is a difference in size. There is no argument that a fetus is smaller then say a two year old toddler or even yourself. Would anyone presuppose that Kevin Garnett, the 6’ 11” forward for the Minnestoa Timberwolves, is more of a person then Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) democrat party leader, based strictly on the size of the person? Should we automatically kill anyone, male or female, who is not, say taller then 5’ 4” as an adult? Of course not.

Second there is a difference in the level of development. There is no question that a fetus is less developed than you. Would anyone be so bold to suggest that a four year old girl is less of person than a 30 year old woman, because the four year old girl is less developed since her reproductive system is not fully functional? Would anyone be even bolder and suggest that someone who has not reached their mid 40’s could be aborted because he/she has not yet reached full mental development? Of course not.

Third, there is a difference in the environment, in which the fetus and you abide. Obviously there is a difference between the womb and the world outside of the womb. A simple change of environment does not make a person less of a person. When you walked out to the mailbox or to the store to acquire this newspaper you had a change of environment from the warmth of the inside of your house to the cold outside of a beautiful frosty winter day. Are you less of a person or more of a person in or out of the house? Is there a fundamental change in who you are if you sojourn to Mankato? Of course not.

Lastly, there is a difference in the amount of dependency that the fetus and you require. Naturally a fetus is dependent upon the mother, for its survival. The argument is, that if the fetus cannot survive on its own, without intervention, then it is not a human and may be terminated at will. There are many who are reading this article who are, or know someone who is, dependent upon a medication to sustain their life. Perhaps you or a loved one require dialysis without which you would die within a few short days. Is a person who must have their medication or dialysis any less of a person then one who does not require these or any other life sustaining medical procedures? Of course not.

Of course a fetus is a human life. The law of biogenesis states that there is nothing that magically turns something that is not a human into something that is all of sudden a human. The only differences between the unborn human life and the new baby is a small and simple S.L.E.D.:
• Size,
• Level of development,
• Environment and
• Dependancy.

Since the S.L.E.D. clearly demonstrates that there are only four small and negligible differences between a fetus and an adult, we must absolutely consider a fetus a person and choose life and end the senseless slaughter of 50 million human beings, and the decimation of yet another generation with 1 in every 5 being killed, for connivence. Choose life.