Thursday, October 11, 2007

An Unbiased Abortion Film?!?


I was happy to see that this director at least took an honest look at the horror of Abortion in its element. But I am still frustrated to find that the argument is being framed in a way that makes abortion "the" alternative choice to having a baby. Now I am a Christian, but I will not preach abstinence for all here, nor will I try to tell you what Jesus would do (even though that is clear). What I need to get across here is this. The director quotes Noam Chomsky as saying :

"There are conflicting values and taken in isolation each of these values is quite legitimate," he adds. "Choice is legitimate, preserving life is legitimate."

The plain fact is, he is correct, but the choice is not whether to abort or keep a child. The "choice" is whether to put you and your partner at risk of becoming pregnant in the first place. Excluding rape alone, this speaks loudly of our culture's inability to marry gratification with personal responsibility. For this very reason millions of Americans suffer from huge amounts of credit card debt. It is in fact too late to "choose" once you have put yourself in a position where paying your massive debt or declaring bankruptcy are the only options. No, if you are not prepared to take responsibility for the result of your actions then you have no business walking into the store to begin with. Therefore if what we are saying (and I think all would agree) is that preserving life is important as Chomsky states, or to go a bit farther as I and many others believe, to say that human life is sacred once it begins, then the debate is essentially over. Any 4th grader can tell you what usually happens when mommy and daddy do their thing... They get pregers and little johnny gets a baby sister. Really, babys don't get delivered by storks as an answer to mom's prayer (anymore). The point is that God (or nature if you prefer) created sexual relations with the purpose of procreation in mind. Why do you think it's so much fun! I can tell you that the human race would be doomed if sex were like say, plucking nose hairs, or bikini waxing or some such thing. As a society we have so totally lost our way when we can go straight to abortion as the other option while skipping over completely the fact that we should have just kept our trousers on in the first place. I am not a prude, just practical. I am totally fine with pre-emptive birth control in theory, but none of it is fool proof.
So the bottom line is... If you are not prepared to face the fact that you may become pregnant, carry and deliver a baby your "choice" is simple. Do not have sex! This is not a debate about abortions or no abortions, it is a debate about responsibility or blatant irresponsibility.

Here is the article link

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