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.

From Jill Stanek:

Politically correct personhood

This spectacular Time magazine photo, posted November 21, is of a human embryo implanted in the wall of the uterus.

Except Time called it "[a]n implanted fertilized egg." Judging by the number of cells and placement, this human embryo was about 1 week old, far older than what Time called an "embryo" a day earlier in another article on embryonic stem cell research.

To MSM, agenda drives terminology. And when speaking of human personhood amendments, which Time was in the first article, "fertilized egg" suited the agenda.

Read the rest of her thoughts here.

First of all, this picture is amazing. The idea that we are so helpless early in life—so dependent on a being much greater than we—puts the fear of God in me. The idea that we so easily destroy these tiny lives for our own selfishness also causes me to fear for those who would do it.

The reason Time wrote about this is because there is an initiative in Colorado that will declare that a "fertilized egg" is, in fact, a person. In other words, it will declare what should be obvious. I'll write more about what I think of the initive later, but I wanted to make a prediction that the biggest argument against this initiative will be that birth-control will be made illegal. (It won't, of course.)

As most of you know, hormonal birth control sometimes works by blocking a "fertilized egg" (zygote) from the uterine wall. This means that the tiny life will die right within the mother. Most women are under the impression that the pill (and every other hormonal birth control out there) only works by preventing conception. Interestingly, even Christians don't seem to care when you tell them that they could be killing life within them. Their deluded idea of "waiting" to have kids while they are in a marriage relationship is much more important to them than actually carrying through the purpose of sex.

But the resistance against the truth about birth control pills has been so strong in the past, it will be interesting to watch it come right out now that the agenda is different. As Jill quoted Keith Mason of the CO Personhood Initiative: "Pro-aborts have either been lying for 40 years that the birth control pill doesn't kill a baby or lying now that it does. Does it or doesn't it?"

My thought exactly.