Nathan Sheets (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} natewillsheets) wrote,@ 2008-07-21 01:02:00 |
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Nathan's Pro-Life 101, Part One
I started writing another pro-life post a few days ago to reveal some...I don't know, "revelations" about my point of view of abortion. Bah, I don't know the word. Just that since leaving Christianity, my pro-life beliefs have remained fully the same, but within that things have changed. That's what this next series is about. I'm creating a series because 1) they're just all the rage these days and 2) I've been lacking in pro-life material and I want something that will keep going for a while.
Nathan's Pro-Life 101: Put the Coat Hanger Down, and Let's Talk
Perhaps I'm just a little bit hostile with the pro-choice crowd. Whatever; I'll try not to be, but in reality I'll probably be taking a few immature jabs at them not only because they deserve it, but also because I find myself extremely funny.
The first thing I should do is introduce who I am and my involvement and transformation in the pro-life movement. I started blogging when I was 15 or 16 years-old. Because I was all young and smart-aleky, I chose a name that I deemed "clever": godisprolife. Immediately the wrathful denunciations about my horribly offensive name started rolling in (through email, no less!) and I was forced to hit the books (or websites, rather) and start defending my theretofore unthought out views.
But that's enough of that. Back in the day I was a Christian pro-lifer and now I'm a non-Christian pro-lifer. That's pretty much all you need to know about me personally for the time being.
The second quick thing you should know is that I view the pro-choice movement as different than pro-choicers. I'll explain more later, but the pro-choice movement is lead by a bunch of extremists, whereas pro-choicers in general do not believe in abortion to the same degree. It's true! Keep reading.
The very basis of how I think about the abortion issue (and any other life-issue, really) is what is happening in an abortion. It's a blatantly violent act, wherein a fetus is ripped apart and suctioned out of the woman through a vacuum. The pro-choice movement is able to ignore the violence of abortion by insisting that 1) the fetus is worthless and/or 2) that it doesn't matter because it's a woman's choice.
Pro-choicers--both the good kind and the bad--often state that the fetus' worth is directly linked to the mother's idea of it. If a woman is horrified to be pregnant and wants to have an abortion, the fetus is not worth protecting and it may be disposed of through the most violent means possible. If the mother is excited for her pregnancy, suddenly she should be left to have her child and if she miscarries it is a sad occasion, often involving a long grieving process, funerals, etc. In a sense, their formula for the value of the fetus is "ask mums."
This logic is quickly thrown out the window when we try to apply it to...anything else. Iraqi children? WORTH PROTECTING! Premature babies? WORTH PROTECTING! Serial killers on death row? WORTH PROTECTING! So the only people--ever--to have the moral authority to take another life are...mothers! Not politicians. Not voters. Not courts. But mothers. Maybe it's just me, but I think there are other people in the world who are able to make moral choices.
And mothers come in all shapes and sizes, don't they? In the pro-choice world, suddenly a 15 year-old mother has the same level of judgment as a 30 year-old mother: both can opt to kill their fetus.
You'll begin to see (and possibly start snickering at, if you're humor is like mine) how the pro-choicers' logic starts to break down simply by comparing it to a three year-old. Rape and incest, life of the mother, health of the mother, financial situation or the mother, the mother not being able to fit into a dress: none of these seem to be good reasons to dismember a three year-old, but more than enough reasons to slaughter a fetus.
Oops, and there I go saying "slaughter" again. The pro-aborts hate it. If you haven't seen photos of abortion, you should. It truly is grotesque, comparable to photographs of the victims of the holocaust when the Allies found them. Violence, especially violence against children, is always horrible. It is my hope in this series that I will be able to speak to some pro-choicers, or perhaps some shaky pro-lifers, and get them to see: abortion is not always the exception.
I started writing another pro-life post a few days ago to reveal some...I don't know, "revelations" about my point of view of abortion. Bah, I don't know the word. Just that since leaving Christianity, my pro-life beliefs have remained fully the same, but within that things have changed. That's what this next series is about. I'm creating a series because 1) they're just all the rage these days and 2) I've been lacking in pro-life material and I want something that will keep going for a while.
Nathan's Pro-Life 101: Put the Coat Hanger Down, and Let's Talk
Perhaps I'm just a little bit hostile with the pro-choice crowd. Whatever; I'll try not to be, but in reality I'll probably be taking a few immature jabs at them not only because they deserve it, but also because I find myself extremely funny.
The first thing I should do is introduce who I am and my involvement and transformation in the pro-life movement. I started blogging when I was 15 or 16 years-old. Because I was all young and smart-aleky, I chose a name that I deemed "clever": godisprolife. Immediately the wrathful denunciations about my horribly offensive name started rolling in (through email, no less!) and I was forced to hit the books (or websites, rather) and start defending my theretofore unthought out views.
But that's enough of that. Back in the day I was a Christian pro-lifer and now I'm a non-Christian pro-lifer. That's pretty much all you need to know about me personally for the time being.
The second quick thing you should know is that I view the pro-choice movement as different than pro-choicers. I'll explain more later, but the pro-choice movement is lead by a bunch of extremists, whereas pro-choicers in general do not believe in abortion to the same degree. It's true! Keep reading.
The very basis of how I think about the abortion issue (and any other life-issue, really) is what is happening in an abortion. It's a blatantly violent act, wherein a fetus is ripped apart and suctioned out of the woman through a vacuum. The pro-choice movement is able to ignore the violence of abortion by insisting that 1) the fetus is worthless and/or 2) that it doesn't matter because it's a woman's choice.
Pro-choicers--both the good kind and the bad--often state that the fetus' worth is directly linked to the mother's idea of it. If a woman is horrified to be pregnant and wants to have an abortion, the fetus is not worth protecting and it may be disposed of through the most violent means possible. If the mother is excited for her pregnancy, suddenly she should be left to have her child and if she miscarries it is a sad occasion, often involving a long grieving process, funerals, etc. In a sense, their formula for the value of the fetus is "ask mums."
This logic is quickly thrown out the window when we try to apply it to...anything else. Iraqi children? WORTH PROTECTING! Premature babies? WORTH PROTECTING! Serial killers on death row? WORTH PROTECTING! So the only people--ever--to have the moral authority to take another life are...mothers! Not politicians. Not voters. Not courts. But mothers. Maybe it's just me, but I think there are other people in the world who are able to make moral choices.
And mothers come in all shapes and sizes, don't they? In the pro-choice world, suddenly a 15 year-old mother has the same level of judgment as a 30 year-old mother: both can opt to kill their fetus.
You'll begin to see (and possibly start snickering at, if you're humor is like mine) how the pro-choicers' logic starts to break down simply by comparing it to a three year-old. Rape and incest, life of the mother, health of the mother, financial situation or the mother, the mother not being able to fit into a dress: none of these seem to be good reasons to dismember a three year-old, but more than enough reasons to slaughter a fetus.
Oops, and there I go saying "slaughter" again. The pro-aborts hate it. If you haven't seen photos of abortion, you should. It truly is grotesque, comparable to photographs of the victims of the holocaust when the Allies found them. Violence, especially violence against children, is always horrible. It is my hope in this series that I will be able to speak to some pro-choicers, or perhaps some shaky pro-lifers, and get them to see: abortion is not always the exception.
