There is a blog swarmy thing going on today. Organized by the usual suspects, it is on the topic "Abortion is a health issue not a crime".
Well they are right about the first part - Abortion is a health issue, the most immediate health issue is to the baby, the baby indeed dies! Abortion the is clearly not good for the babies health and no amount of sophistry such as using the term "fetus" in place of "baby" will obliviate this fact.
Did you ever hear an expectant mother say "the fetus is kicking"? You did not. It is always the baby that does the kicking, And indeed each unborn develops his/her own recognizable personality.
And abortion is not so good for the mothers health either, in extreme cases she may loose her life, become sterile or become seriously ill. It is only in extremely rare cases the mothers health may benefit from an abortion, Few and far between.
And of course many, not all, women who have undergone abortions later regret it and grieve for the child or children they lost to this barbarity. Sometimes to the point of developing clinical depression. Anecdotally I have known several women who have suffered so, grief for the children that denied their birthright and guilt for what was done.
Nor for the second part: "Abortion is not a crime". Strictly speaking an abortion performed under the existing regulations of this country in this country is not a crime - that's by definition.
But many bad things that were not crimes under the laws of Nazi Germany, the Japanese Empire, the Independent State of Croatia during WW2 or the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin where later deemed to be "crimes against humanity". We are certainly killing off our citizens at a similar rate to the Ustaše at their peak and have kept it up for a far longer period than they managed.
Abortion is a crime, it is a crime against humanity and it takes some pretty agile mental gymnastics to convince yourself it is not.
Well they are right about the first part - Abortion is a health issue, the most immediate health issue is to the baby, the baby indeed dies! Abortion the is clearly not good for the babies health and no amount of sophistry such as using the term "fetus" in place of "baby" will obliviate this fact.
Did you ever hear an expectant mother say "the fetus is kicking"? You did not. It is always the baby that does the kicking, And indeed each unborn develops his/her own recognizable personality.
And abortion is not so good for the mothers health either, in extreme cases she may loose her life, become sterile or become seriously ill. It is only in extremely rare cases the mothers health may benefit from an abortion, Few and far between.
And of course many, not all, women who have undergone abortions later regret it and grieve for the child or children they lost to this barbarity. Sometimes to the point of developing clinical depression. Anecdotally I have known several women who have suffered so, grief for the children that denied their birthright and guilt for what was done.
Nor for the second part: "Abortion is not a crime". Strictly speaking an abortion performed under the existing regulations of this country in this country is not a crime - that's by definition.
But many bad things that were not crimes under the laws of Nazi Germany, the Japanese Empire, the Independent State of Croatia during WW2 or the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin where later deemed to be "crimes against humanity". We are certainly killing off our citizens at a similar rate to the Ustaše at their peak and have kept it up for a far longer period than they managed.
Abortion is a crime, it is a crime against humanity and it takes some pretty agile mental gymnastics to convince yourself it is not.