Abortion

Perhaps no other subject has ever so completely and deeply touched and penetrated so many facets of human life as has abortion. It brings with it implications that affect moral, religious, economic, social, ethical, political, legal, spiritual, emotional, medical, family, cultural, and educational values. It is a lightning rod that attracts cataclysmic sparks of destruction and creation from both the fundamental conservative bedrock and the cutting edge of liberal explorers.

Abortion is not really the problem it seems, though. Instead of being a problem in itself, it is really the symptom of a whole catalog of problems. If symptoms of any serious disease are treated and made to disappear, but the underlying disease, is not treated, the disease itself has only been fed. Simply making abortion illegal is an example of how to feed a disease or fan a fire.

There are those who see abortion as a problem caused by deviant judges, or activist judges, assisted by feminists. All this being in open disobedience to God’s clearly expressed will. They seem to feel that abortion can be ended by simply making it illegal. Abortion , however, will not end, it will continue; it will still take place as it always has. Not in hospitals or doctors’ offices, but surreptitiously by more dangerous, and illegal means and performed by law-breakers who are neither professionally trained nor legally responsible for their action.

The only way to control abortion is to eliminate its causes. 1) Discrimination against women. 2) Poor, or no health care for pregnant women and young children. 3) An education system that can neither control its students while in class nor prepare them for graduation. 4) Insufficient wages for low income workers. 5) Child care, including education, that is conducted by the lowest or lower paid members of the society, and 6) To prohibit the great corporations of America using sex to inundate pre- and early teens in a great over-culture of sexual "permissiveness", forget permissiveness, call it encouragement and enticement.

Whenever one sees action against abortion, it seems as if it is always led by the preachers, priests or immans, almost all of whom are male. No man has ever become pregnant, much less carried a child within his womb for even a day, much less to term, no male has ever labored in the birthing process or given birth. And while many men have nursed babies, none have ever suckled a child nor is one ever apt to. Many men do take wonderful care of their children and yet still the fact of life remains, that throughout the centuries and around the world, it is always the women who carry the cildren through famine, war, flood and other disasters.

It is easy to say that pregnancy is the result of having fun indulging in sex - that these "people" have to pay the price. All of these "people" though are women people. Many of them did not enjoy the sex act which impregnated them nor did they wish to take part in it. But once impregnated, they have to carry this child not just "to term" but they are responsible for it for the rest of their lives.

Yes abortion IS bad. It SHOULD never happen. Those who use it WILL feel its effects the rest of their lives. But the same is true of war. And we go to war whenever it is necessary. We honor "those who have fallen" for their country with great ceremonies and monuments. Why not ceremonies and monuments for those who were aborted so they would not be born into a country which did not want them and would not take care of them?  They also died for their country.