Reverend Slip
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I seem to always take to "unpopular" side of an argument, and I guess today is no different:
So what are you, Pro-life or Pro-choice? This is a really touchy topic for most Americans today, do we support the woman’s right to do what she wishes with her body, or do we support the infants right to live.
The first issue here is the question; “Is the fetus alive or not?” I mean, if the fetus is not living, we can rationalize the act by thinking; “It never was alive to begin with.” Personally, after Day 1 of development, I think the child is alive, because it’s feeding off the mother’s body to survive, and though fetus may be considered a parasite, a parasite is a living organism, and as that is, you are killing something. Period, and that is wrong.
Women do say it is their body and their right to do with it what they want, but think about that for one second, is may be their body, but they have a living human within them, and they aren’t doing anything but killing it. That is after all, what they are doing, they are not destroying a nameless, soulless being, they are killing a living thing, and that is not right, at all. And why do we so strictly refer to it as a fetus?
We do this to dehumanize the process, we take the humanity out of killing a child. Without thinking of it as a human, we can alleviate the guilt of killing, we make it easier on ourselves to kill, when we think we are not. I think this is a horrible thing, I mean, you are still killing after all, all you really are doing is making it seem like you are not, but then, people can turn right around after yelling “Pro-life” and call for the death penalty.
How is this any different? How is aborting a fetus any different from killing a murderer. They are both living beings, they are both alive, and we are killing them, and how could killing a fetus be any better thank killing a full grown man?
The child has not even begun to live yet, he has not had any opportunities in life, not have a childhood, not have a girlfriend or boyfriend, not grow up, they won’t have any of that. Then there is the man marked for death, he has had them various opportunities, he has had a life, so he really isn’t missing as much as the child.
Think people, it’s a child, you are killing child, how in the world can that be justified on any account, it is a child.
So what are you, Pro-life or Pro-choice? This is a really touchy topic for most Americans today, do we support the woman’s right to do what she wishes with her body, or do we support the infants right to live.
The first issue here is the question; “Is the fetus alive or not?” I mean, if the fetus is not living, we can rationalize the act by thinking; “It never was alive to begin with.” Personally, after Day 1 of development, I think the child is alive, because it’s feeding off the mother’s body to survive, and though fetus may be considered a parasite, a parasite is a living organism, and as that is, you are killing something. Period, and that is wrong.
Women do say it is their body and their right to do with it what they want, but think about that for one second, is may be their body, but they have a living human within them, and they aren’t doing anything but killing it. That is after all, what they are doing, they are not destroying a nameless, soulless being, they are killing a living thing, and that is not right, at all. And why do we so strictly refer to it as a fetus?
We do this to dehumanize the process, we take the humanity out of killing a child. Without thinking of it as a human, we can alleviate the guilt of killing, we make it easier on ourselves to kill, when we think we are not. I think this is a horrible thing, I mean, you are still killing after all, all you really are doing is making it seem like you are not, but then, people can turn right around after yelling “Pro-life” and call for the death penalty.
How is this any different? How is aborting a fetus any different from killing a murderer. They are both living beings, they are both alive, and we are killing them, and how could killing a fetus be any better thank killing a full grown man?
The child has not even begun to live yet, he has not had any opportunities in life, not have a childhood, not have a girlfriend or boyfriend, not grow up, they won’t have any of that. Then there is the man marked for death, he has had them various opportunities, he has had a life, so he really isn’t missing as much as the child.
Think people, it’s a child, you are killing child, how in the world can that be justified on any account, it is a child.