Since I've been called a "knee jerk conservative" and a "right wing loon" (And those are the nice things I've been called), I guess it is time for me to talk about abortion. Am I against it? Yes, I am. Do I want to make it illegal? No, I do not. So let's take it one at a time.
But before I do, I hate the terms they use. Why don't they just come right out and say it? The pro-life people are anti-abortion. The right to choose people are pro-abortion. Those are the terms I use.
Why am I anti-abortion? I guess that gets us into the old debate as to when life begins. According to Weasley Clark, life begins when the mother says so. That covers a lot of ground doesn't it?
What about life beginning when the fetus can survive outside of its mother's womb? Medical science has advanced to such a degree that we find that occurs earlier and earlier. So, is aborting a viable fetus, who can survive outside of its mother's womb infanticide?
That's the quandry isn't it? And that's my problem. To me that is murder.
On the other hand, as a libertarian, I do not think the gummint should be allowed to place a gun to a woman's head and force her to carry the baby to term. I am morally against abortion, but I do not want the gummint to prohibit it. If abortion is illegal, we'll go back to the back alley abortions with the attendant risks to the health of the mother.
I want to tackle the problem of abortion another way. At least the use of abortion as a method of birth control.
What's the easiest way to prevent abortions? Easy. Prevent pregnancies. And this is where I'm really pissed off at the Catholic Church or any other religion that is against birth control. They believe that there is a God who created us. If so, that God also gave us a brain and gave us free will. We know how to prevent pregnancy and it is not the rhythm method. Do you know what you call people who use the rhythm method? Parents.
I'm for sex education in the schools and it doesn't bother me a bit if the schools give out condoms. Not all teenagers are gonna abstain from sex. Geez! At 16 I was a mess of raging hormones.
I know of women who have talked openly about sex with their daughters and have put them on the pill in high school. Yeah, they should wait until they're older, but wishing it wouldn't happen ain't gonna make it not happen.
Some say the country is getting more conservative. I don't think so. I think the Dimocrats have turned into socialists and the Republicans have turned into Dimocrats. But, if the country is indeed getting more conservative, maybe it's because all the children that would have been born to liberals and raised by liberals were aborted by liberals. It's a thought.
Anyway, here is one time that I actually agree with Bill Clinton, I think abortion
should be safe, legal, and rare.