Life, Death, and Abortion

I am pro-life, I have been for as long as I can remember. Though my opinions on abortion in particular have changed over the years, I still consider myself pro-life. The reason is simply that I prefer life to death in any situation. I have expressed this in past articles, but here and now I will fully address my positions on this topic. Please be aware this may get dark or disturbing in some parts or examples. Reader discretion is advised.

I think abortion is murder. This, for many years was my one point of agreement with christian conservative types. I thought of abortion as murder and thought that was enough to support the banning of it. Though there are many forms of murder. Like bashing a babies head in with a brick, Form of murder, though different than abortion no one would disagree. It is more brutal, bloody and outlawing it would not overall increase death rates. I’ll explain. When people feel a need to get an abortion, the legality of it will not change that. So if it is illegal it would push these people to the street, where best case scenario they meet with an MD who lost his license due to alcoholism. Or worst case scenario they put a coat hanger, where coat hangers should never go. This is the best argument that “pro-choose” types have. It really is rock solid. When I first heard it expressed I thought, “well yea but, well yea but, shit that’s actually a pretty good point. Like rock solid. See if I consider abortion murder, and people are going to dangerous situations to get an abortion done, then we have a very high chance of 2 deaths, because if you get an abortion on the street or with a coat hanger, the abortion will likely be a success, because if the mother dies the fetus aint surviving. And we end up with 2 deaths, where as we would have just had one had the abortion been, legal, regulated, and therefore safe.

That being said I despise abortion. I wish it never happened, and this is why I support top notch sexual education being taught in all schools, widely available, high quality, dirt cheap contraceptives, and the funding of planned parenthood. I’m talking non-bias science based sex education, morning after pills being available at every corner drug store for no more than 2 bucks a pop, and increasing, fairly drastically the funding of planned parenthood. Too many pro-lifers oppose all of these things, these things that will lower abortion rates (and there by death rates) which makes me think these things are opposed most likely due to religious dogma rather than an actual preference for life.

Let us consider planned parenthood, the evil murderous abortion clinic, which does about three percent abortions, and 97 percent PLANNING PARENTHOOD. It is right there in the name. Most of what planned parent hood does is help younger parents prepare and PLAN for parenthood. Defund this and abortion rates are bound to increase.

So abortion isn’t the only issue related to this topic. Suicide is another big one. So what about suicide? Well I think suicide is a delusion of sorts. What I mean is I don’t think anyone actually wants to die. The survival instincts of virtually every living thing should prove that. So people who are suicidal should receive help, and we should do everything we can to keep them alive, and help them be content with it. Assisted suicide, or more appropriately, euthanasia, is different. In the sense that most of these people don’t actually “want to die”, they know that they will suffer unavoidably and then die inevitably. From there it is perfectly reasonable to want to skip that first step. However offer these people a cure all, and they will take that, because they don’t “want to die”, they just want to skip the unavoidable suffering.

So in conclusion I will talk about regulation (at least very broadly). In the case of euthanasia, I think it’s fairly simple, like I said above in the case of unavoidable suffering followed by inevitable death, than it should be an option. Now this effecting ones ability to consent, is possible, and that would have to be figured out by experts on a case by case basis. In the case of suicide, It should not be criminalized, but addressed as a legitimate mental health issue, but not just allowed, view it as a delusion, not a genuine desire. Now about abortion, again it should be legal. Safety precautions obviously figured out by experts. And fetal viability the “cut-off” point. Now there is no medical consensus on the exact point of fetal viability. But when ever the cut-off point is induced labor should become an option. Now this could potentially void any strict abortion restriction, like “heart beat bills”. Induced labor would essentially be abortion at that point. So if that was a law, that would make sure, one way or another, an unequipped mother to be, could eliminate the pregnancy.