Hormonal Birth Control and When Life Begins
When not cleaning my gun or sewing up the rips in my KKK uniform, I sit and think about my current beliefs about life, death, religion, God, etc. Of course, as many of you know, one of the most important issues with me is the abortion issue, which really is a cumulative mixing of a bunch of terrible shit going on in the world.

I am actually quite surprised at how few of my political/social views have changed since I've given up trying to practice Christianity. The two biggest that I can think of are gay marriage (and trust me, I'm not pro-gay marriage in the traditional liberal way: by having courts give it to us) and the use of contraception.

When I say "contraception", however, it's only non-hormonal contraception that I approve of due to the precise reasons I was against hormonal birth control pre-secular days. I have to ask myself, "When does life begin?"

It's hard to keep track of what the pro-choicers believe these days in regards to personhood. One minute they seem to insist that a conceived child is not a person and therefore can be removed without any moral question whatsoever, then the other they're saying that yes, it's a life, but it doesn't matter, because that life isn't worth as much as, say, a homeless person. I find this perennially intriguing--but that's another issue.

If we're looking at things in terms of personhood, why is it that we, as a society, don't believe that pre-implantation lives are actually lives? What is the significant difference between traveling up the fallopian tube and actually being attached to the uterine wall? There isn't really that much of a difference, when looking at the development of that human life. But in order to make ourselves feel better about pumping fourteen year-olds up with hormones, we say, "Actually, life begins at implantation! Anything goes up to that point!" Unless of course you're Obama, in which case it's OK to slaughter an infant in the third trimester with a pretty damned good "health" reason!

I guess all of this to say that I still believe that life begins at conception. This hasn't changed, and I doubt that it will.