Congratulations! It’s an abortion!

We’ve heard you were expecting! How wonderful that is! What’s that? You found out it was a agirl? Oh that’s wonderful! Pink everyhwere! Lace, and curls and ribbons and ballet lessons-what’s that you say? You wanted a boy? Oh, well maybe next time. You know, you could get to it earlier if you really wanted. Just go get an abortion. It’s legal in Sweden you know.

Swedish health authorities have ruled that gender-based abortion is not illegal according to current law and can not therefore be stopped, according to a report by Sveriges Television.

Here’s the link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/12/sweden-rules-genderbased-_n_202430.html

So now, the way science has advanced us out of the stone age, you can get pregnant, find out if your baby has an incurable disease or disability and kill it-never mind that’s the way that baby was created. And, now, you can discriminate based on sex preference too. Not only that, you can have that ultrasound, find out it’s a gender you ujst don’t want to deal with(thank you so much ultrasound technology!), abort it, heal up a bit and go and order yourself a fabulous little designer baby.

So much for the fun of good old fashioned sex, the surprise of not knowing and the joy of the blessing of a baby.

I think I’ll go hug my naturally conceived, surprise me with pink or blue, love you in each and every flaw quiver of bent arrows.

I originally posted this elsewhere a few weeks ago. Today, as I learn that yet another one of my children might have a problem, it strikes me as even more relevant. At what point do we draw the line in teh sand over a human life? I thought we had reached the end of the rope with aborting babies because they MIGHT have something challenging like Down’s Syndrome. But now to read again that they now are allowing abortions because its a boy or a girl, it breaks my heart.

When will human life no longer be discardable?

Whose Rights?

Abortion is often defended in terms of the woman’s right to choose.   I agree fully.

A woman has a right to make many choices regarding her own body.  She can choose not to have unprotected sex.  She can choose to use contraceptive medications.  She can choose to abstain from sex completely.  But she cannot choose to deny the rights of another for her own convenience.

Rights come with responsibilities.  The free exercise of my rights stops at the point where it would interfere with your rights, and vice versa.  Abortion doesn’t affect only the woman.  It involves two people, the woman and her child, as any simple DNA test will show.  The rights of both must be considered.

As an individual, a woman has the right to make choices about her own body.    The pro-abortion argument that “a woman has a right to choose what to do with her own body,” is not an accurate description of the debate.  As a parent, the woman even has the right to make choices about her child.  She does not, however, have the right to end the life of her child.

Abortion advocates understand this.  They intentionally pull on your emotional heartstrings with pleas of “women’s rights.”  In doing so, they completely ignore the rights of the innocent child who’s life they seek to end.

Are women’s rights more important than children’s rights?

It Depends On Your Beliefs

A phrase often heard in controversial discussions as an attempt to find some type of middle ground is “it depends on your beliefs.”  But what does that really mean?

If I believe the sky is purple, and you believe it is orange, does agreeing to disagree by saying “it depends on your belief” change the fact that the sky is actually blue?  Of course not.  We are both free to believe whatever we want, but society as a whole will still call the sky blue and if we choose to engage in activities requiring factual knowledge we better be prepared to call it blue as well.

Most often, the phrase is heard in political debates.  But do those uttering it, really mean it?  I would venture to guess that most of the time the answer is no.

Would anyone seriously argue that laws regarding murder, rape, assault, or theft should “depend on your beliefs?”  Of course not.  Regardless of ones’ personal beliefs, there is one common principle that the law applies in these situations.  Individuals are free to hold their own beliefs, but they are not free to act on them in a way that would infringe upon the rights of another.

Suppose someone says, “I don’t believe that brunettes are people,” or “I don’t believe that children under the age of five are people.” Does that make it true?  Of course not.  People, are people, and the law is there to protect the rights of all.  Certainly no one would argue that Hitler had a right to kill Jews  because he believed they were not people, or that the Klu Klux Klan has a right to kill African Americans because they believe they are not people.

Why, then, do some of us stubbornly cling to the idea that it is okay for a woman to murder her unborn baby if she doesn’t believe that it is a person yet?