by Eddie Phillips

Created on: September 09, 2007

Obviously the overwhelming, vocal force of opinion in favor of abortion comes from women. Men, however, through silent indifference add fuel to the fire. Those in favor will reason, among many other things, that resistance to abortion rights is indicative of the overall attitude of some that women cannot make wise choices with clear reasoning for what is best for their lives. The irony of abortion is that it does not exercise intelligence and reasoning, and fails to promote the God-created character traits that women possess.

Imagine a woman who is contemplating joining forces with NOW, the foremost women's advocacy group, and getting involved in the issues that affect women. She's pregnant, and has come face to face with the reality that motherhood will drastically change the course of her destiny. Let's assume that she was raised in a traditional home with traditional values and wrestles with some of these thoughts as she considers an abortion in her life. There is now a conflict within her; a war. These are the questions that are going through her mind:

1. How can my rights as a woman override the rights of the father of my baby? Do we not equally share the responsibility of this pregnancy since we engaged in mutual sexual intercourse? How can I justify abdicating my responsibility to the consequences of my actions by aborting the fetus? How can my role as the carrier of the seed be deemed more important than the father who planted it? I cannot create a baby on my own; how then can the decision to abort my pregnancy be made solely on my own discretion without regard for the father?

2. Since the processes of my child's development are not suspended while I contemplate abortion, how can I justify the abortion of my unborn baby by saying, "It is not a real person?" How can I skirt my responsibility by telling myself that while it is in the womb it cannot survive on its own? Can a newborn survive without care from its parents? Am I not blatantly denying the developmental stages of life by choosing to call it murder only after the baby is full term? Isn't murder of a human being still murder regardless of the stage at which it is done, or even the circumstances in which it was conceived? Whether it's a fetus, infant, toddler, teenager, adult or senior? Whether loved or unloved?

3. If I say that physical life does not begin at conception, wouldn't I be ignoring the obvious and inextricable stages of human development?

These thoughts and questions are not the thoughts

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