Abortion is morally wrong

[bennyboy]

The two aren't mutually exclusive. Everyone is pro life. We just draw different lines in the sand with regard to exactly what life is and when it starts.

Those who define it as DNA must be exclusively pro life no matter what. Those who define it as a thinking, feeling being or as a viable organism draw it somewhere else.

Nobody here is condoning ending a human life. They just don't think a small bundle of cells IS human life.

The so called "pro-life" fraction have positioned itself, probably intentionally, into the rhetorical trap which precludes embracing any possibility of choice. So regardless of whether one thinks abortion is a good or bad choice, so long as one think that choice should be available under any circumstance whatsoever, one would fall outside the cynically self-styled "pro life" camp.

I think even pro life are pro choice. The choice, though, is whether to have sex, or whether to get married.

In these liberal days, I think the natural function of physical acts is seen as having fallen to subjective mores. That's fine, but I think hedonism as a goal is a pretty harmful one, and there really is something to be said for examining one's own acts and saying, "Is there a point to this act, or am I just a pleasure-seeking monkey?"

Don't get me wrong-- I had sex before marriage, got married partly because I wanted to have more sex with a particular person, had children as a product of having sex, and recently have been involved in an abortion-- my wife's choice, my support-- because we chose to keep having "natural" (read: unprotected) sex well after we knew for sure we never wanted another baby.

But it wouldn't have hurt me a couple times along the way to put it in my pants and go to community service instead. Just saying.