Abortion: Pushing the Line of Liberty

Rebecca Smith, staff writer

Abortion: One word can bring chaos to a normal conversation. Today, I am opening the door to that chaos.                          

Our society has become more and more liberal throughout the last forty years. Some of those changes were for good and wholesome reasons. However, some, like abortion, have begun to corrupt American people.

For those who stand for pro-choice in a situation like this, isn’t it hypocritical to say that the woman has a choice, but not the baby? First of all, the act of having sex, for some, was a choice. That choice involved the decision of whether or not to become pregnant. Therefore, the woman already had a choice.

Life is life, no matter who wants to say when it begins. When a woman becomes pregnant, hasn’t the life already began?  Sure, it’s easy to say no, if that helps cope with the selfishness of the act.

A mistake made by having sex and causing pregnancy is not the mistake of the child, so why punish him/her for it?

As for the pregnancies caused by a horrible, inhumane deed, I understand there was not a choice for the woman. In these cases I stand looking at the argument in both ways. However, the just side to take on the argument is that the child had no opinion or say in any of the matters at hand. Therefore, why punish an innocent, helpless victim for the horrendous acts brought by the father. An alternative to consider here is that of adoption, giving the child a chance for life.  It grieves me to think that we now have to consider these situations. For those who have encountered such horrible crimes, I am truly sorry.

According to WordNet, pregnancy means “being about to produce new life”. Justifying that the life is only a fetus, proves faulty here.  Therefore, “terminating a pregnancy” is ending that child’s life. It is murder, the worst murder one can commit, of an innocent child who has not even entered and been corrupted by our society.

Another aspect of the argument is why God or nature is unable to handle the situation. Isn’t it reasonable to believe that which ever doctrine you believe in would be ultimately responsible for deciding if the life should be carried out? However, today sometimes those beliefs are pushed aside whenever something like this comes into play. If God or nature had it their way wouldn’t many more be born? Things happen for a reason, and that reason was destined by a higher power. So, what gives us the right to play the part of deciding when life should be taken?

Those who have had the child, should be highly regarded and respected. They have given up so much to do what is right and just. Yet, so many times they are talked about and ridiculed. Their courage should be taken with awareness that life resides over selfishness.

 Babies are the purest form of love in a world that has forgotten the true meaning of love. It is hard to imagine life without them. As more and more discover that the boundaries, which our fore-fathers have marked out, can be pushed and pulled until they no longer exist, what will happen to the purest example of life?