ABORTION THOUGHTS
- WHY BE PRO-ABORTION WHEN THE WOMAN CHOOSES TO HAVE AN ABORTION?
The idea that an early termination is really murder is silly and controversial
so the best thing the law should do is keep out of it. It is a private matter
and does not affect the public order. The law is to keep its nose out when it is
not a matter of public order. Respecting the privacy does not make the state
supportive or unsupportive of early terminations - it merely accepts that it is
a matter for the woman. Later abortions need to be carefully regulated when it
is clear that a human life may be present.
Some Catholics who believe in the ban think that abortion is never necessary to
save a woman's life. But even if that is true, it has nothing to do with the ban
on abortion. The Church would still ban abortion if say the vast majority of
women needed abortion to live. There is a real hatred of women in the Church's
attitude. Also, you can say that there is no case where a woman needs an
abortion to save her life. But they know fine well they cannot be sure that a
case will not appear next week? They do not care about the woman who may be the
exception.
The Catholics always like to say that they do not regard the life of the baby as
more important than that of the mother. They say that for saying any different
would provoke nearly the whole world to rage. They do not mean it because if one
unborn baby had to be slain to save a million mothers they would still forbid
abortion.
What they say is based on a desire to manipulate us and keep us calm-ish. But we
must perceive that saying the unborn baby's life matters more than the mother's
is bad, but to say a woman's life is on an equal footing to a bunch of cells is
worse. Why? Because it makes no sense therefore it IS putting the "baby" first
in the sense that its given an importance it does not have even if it means
hurting the mother. If you believe a ball of cells must be kept alive even if
the mother needs to get rid of it or suffer grave harm or die as it is her equal
then your behaviour will be no different to that of the person who holds the
ball of cells comes first.
Many pro-life Catholics do not care if abortion is necessary to save a woman's
life. They still forbid it. Pope John Paul II did that. He claimed that its
wrong to slay the foetus even to save the mother's life as the foetus is
innocent. He said it is not like killing somebody in self-defence for the baby is
not an aggressor! He closed his ears to those who pointed out, "But the point is
not that the person is deliberately killing. Many attackers are insane. The
point is that one life must be sacrificed for another."
The Church says it is wrong to kill the baby even if it is right to kill an
unjust aggressor to preserve your own life for the baby is not an unjust
aggressor (Question 1010-1011, Radio Replies Volume 2/ page 15, Moral Questions,
A Statement by the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales). But this is an
excuse for she would let you kill a insane person to save yourself though they
would be as innocent as the baby. The Church is trying to murder women who need
an abortion to live, by it is obviously discriminatory teaching. It hates all
women even if pregnancy kills no more for any woman could have a fatal pregnancy
and the Church teaching would be the same if it were common.
The idea that the unborn baby is innocent is hard to accept when human nature
even when it cannot act on it is in fact about taking even if it leaves somebody
else short. Most of us do not need to make that side of us so obvious but it is
still there.
We hold that a person who thinks animals have no feelings is a twisted kind of
person. We must think the same of those who want us to invest a ball of cells
with the same right to life as a grown woman. It's not a rational argument but a
religious fundamentalist one.
The Church also says that when life starts as it does at conception, from that
point on, the mother has no right to treat the child as her property that she
can get rid of or dispose of (page 15, Moral Questions, A Statement by the
Bishops' Conference of England and Wales).
A foetus according to some is a person at a certain stage but as time goes on
becomes more and more of a person. Nature does things bit by bit. If a car is
potentially scrap you will not treat it as scrap until it can’t be anything
else. This seems to ban abortion except for grave reasons. It seems to forbid
treating any embryo as hospital waste.
The child cannot be its own property until it becomes a developed being that
knows its alive. A ball of cells is perhaps nobody's property which is why the
mother can dispose of it. Without intending disrespect, a dog is more developed
than a human being and though it is nobody's property (for it is a conscious
being and nobody can technically own a conscious being but merely treat it as if
they owned it) the person responsible for its care has the right to have it put
to sleep. Religion takes it for granted that the unborn child is its own
property from conception but that stance is far from convincing and isn't even
relevant.
Anti-abortionists contend that killing the baby to prevent the death of the
mother is wrong for it is making sure that one of them will die and if they were
let alone both might have lived. They are stating that it is better to risk two
lives than to take one. Medical predictions aren't always correct. But at the
same time we have to take them as probably correct. This argument would
proscribe killing unjust aggressors. You aren't sure that they will kill you.
The pope knows this for critics come at him from all sides.
The Church likes to claim that abortion hurts women. It is not abortion that
hurts women but careless doctors or perhaps the woman knew the risks and took
the chance of being hurt which is her concern and gives nobody else the right to
say she should not have the option of abortion. Women having abortions are too
often left without the counselling before and after the abortion that is so
vital to their mental well-being. It is not abortion that hurts but bad
attitudes in the woman having the abortion and bad preparation and bad
consideration of the consequences. Many liberated women have had many abortions
and do not feel any guilt and believe that it was worth it. The Church doctrine
that abortion has babies dying outside the family of God and therefore excluded
from Heaven because they are not baptised brings horrendous pain to many women.
Read my pages condemning infant baptism to learn why this cruelty is so
unnecessary. Baptism is just a rite and has no magical power to make a baby fit
for Heaven. The rite is anti-feminist in so far as it hurts women who have
abortions.
It is not abortion that causes the remorse a woman may feel. It is the fear that
she might have killed a person. It is the teaching of the Church that is to
blame for that. The Church does not put as much energy into feeding the starving
millions of the world as it does into the war against abortion. What about the
unborn babies inside mothers starving to death? The war is really about power
over women and to manipulate people into holding the Church in a regard that is
waning in other people. Pro-lifers pretend that pro-abortionists do not really
care for women but even if they don't that does not mean the woman should not
have an abortion. They are trying to make women feel that abortion is bad by
putting them off the idea of going to these people to get one. That is
conniving. Why? A woman might not be treated right while and after having an
abortion but that does not mean that abortion is not the best option for her.
Pro-lifers have a strange concern for women when they say they love women
despite often wanting a woman to die in pregnancy rather than advise her to
terminate it. They insult all women by this for they would have the same
attitude to any one of the women they claim to love. If Ann next door needed an
abortion to save her life they would want her to kill herself by not having one
so if Ann has any sense she will take it personally.
The Church says mother and unborn baby have an equal right to life. But the
mother is classed as a sinner in the wishful thinking of the Church and the baby
is not so the baby's life should be preferred to her if sin exists. It is
obviously wrong to suggest that someone who has had a life has as great a right
to live as a baby that has had none. I would suggest the church secretly
believes this.
For women then affirm abortion rights. The Alien movies showed that no matter how smart or innocent a parasite is we have the right to kill it if gets into our bodies or even if we let it in.