Posted on 07/24/2015 9:33:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
A series of videos from the Center for Medical Progress has exposed Planned Parenthood for selling the body parts of the fetuses they abort. Not only is this sickening, it is a federal offense.
While many are calling for the investigation and defunding of Planned Parenthood, I believe this is just a drop in the bucket in regards to how the pro-life right should combat the abortion industry.
A bad product or practice will not become extinct until a better product or practice comes along to replace it.
For example, horse drawn carriages are now extinct, with the exception of nostalgia. They were replaced by steam engines, then the combustion engine; thank God for automobiles! Washboards and clotheslines have been replaced with in-home washers and driers. Beepers are now considered “retro” as we use our iPhones. And candles? A sweet smelling, decor accessory, not a heat and light necessity.
In the same way, if we want to end abortion, a newer, better option will have to replace it. Like any other good or service, abortion is subject to the laws of supply and demand.
While I personally believe that abortion is never a “good” option and many would argue adoption is a “better” option, we must acknowledge that many find abortion to be the most convenient, cheap, and quick fix.
Abortion is one of the cruelest, most gruesome and primitive practices of today’s modern man; participation in the free market, on the other hand, is one of the key defining traits of civilized human interaction.
Viewing any industry from a free-market lense, government regulation and condemnation won’t bring about a new service. It will only regulate - and therefore muck up - the current practice.
While putting a damper on the abortion industry through government regulation might be a step in the right direction, it is unrealistic at best. Our own government has taken the reverse role and has subsidized groups like Planned Parenthood to the tune of $46 million in federal grants, just this year alone. In fact, since 2012, Planned Parenthood has received more than $207 million in federal funds.
One must also consider the effects of the black market - if you outlaw abortions, some women will seek them illegally - in dirty, dark alleyways. Planned Parenthood is already dabbling in the black market, as displayed by the undercover videos exposing the federal offense of selling fetal body parts.
So while defunding, regulation, and even criminalization may be a hinderance, it is not a solution.
Compassionate, pro-life, free-market capitalists need to focus on the product or procedure that will make abortion an irrelevant, outdated practice. Just as the invention of the thumb drive has saved more trees than any government regulation, a for-profit invention would save more lives than the government ever could.
We must rid ourselves of the government-is-the-solution mentality and start fighting for life via the free market. We must practice the approaches that we preach!
So, what is this new product or procedure that could make abortion a thing of the past?
Different scientists and doctors will give you different answers. One that has peeked my interest is the concept of ectogenesis or eviction incubators.
Ectogenesis, simply put, is the development of an embryo or fetus in artificial conditions outside the uterus. This requires an artificial uterus - something medical technology has yet to perfect. But as technology progresses, so will the range of fetal viability.
In non-scientific terms, women, who do not wish to be pregnant, give up their child during the stage of fetal viability. The young fetus is then transferred to an artificial, replacement uterus. From there, the fetus grows to full-term and is birthed artificially. Adoption agencies, who have a high market demand for more children, can then care for the child and place it into a loving home.
Now I’m the first to admit, growing fetuses in medical boxes and giving them to the highest bidder sounds uncomfortably similar to the plot of a new-agey, sci-fi flick. But research in this area is proceeding apace and once perfected, would bring happiness to families who so wish to adopt. Most importantly, it would save millions of lives.
Ectogenesis is just one example solution. Time and time again, the free market has created products and solutions that just years before no one would have ever imagined. If we do not invest in free markets as the solution, we will never stamp out the genocide of the unborn.
The alternative is the backwards, primitive, and barbaric option of killing the unwanted unborn. When you must choose between the two, those who align themselves with free-market and pro-life values should be wholeheartedly on the side of progress. In the years to come, new medical technology will “solve” the abortion problem.
With all these $billions you would think they could find out what causes pregnancy and how to avoid it before, you have to murder a baby
Babies are routinely slaughtered. Ho-hum. Somebody is making money from it and folks are outraged. Making money is one of the last sins.
Naw....They’ll just raise their prices on parts.
There will be women who would not want this because they don’t want a child of theirs out there somewhere. Just like the women who say they could never give their baby away (adoption). But they have no problem aborting it.
Abortion is not an “industry,” any more than pornography is an industry.
An industry is a productive enterprise, or a way to refer to the collective productive business activity in a given field.
When an abortionist collects a fee, the national well-being goes down.
Abortion should be excluded from measures of GNP and GDP, or maybe even entered as a negative number.
The baby mothers aren’t getting a piece of the pie. Where is the economic justice.
Interesting concept.
If the Rats have their way, “baby parts” will find its way to the Commodities Exchange, like pork bellies.
Still, if our civilization survives long enough, all abortion will eventually become late-term abortion.
This doesn't address the market for tissue, however, as misguided, unnecessary, or as inspired by plain wickedness as that quarter continues to be. That is the sin of Moloch; the practice of the Carthaginians, centered upon child sacrifice for the sake of communal and familial fortune, or simply for sick someone's "jollies."
More to the point, the couple that sacrifices a child for career, for their own quality of life (not to mention the horrible idea of evaluating an unborn human life based on some vague and uncertain imagining of it's potential "quality")is "passing their child through the fire" to please "Fortune," whether or not for the sake of a good harvest or a fulsome career.
Like it destroyed Drug Abuse, Murder, Rape and Homosexual Sex?
I think not. People will engage in these things EVEN if they are unlawful. A Utopia created by planning, regulation, funding, and control is a Leftist myth that is a premise for government control. Throwing good money and resources into negatives produces more negatives. For example; there would be less abortions if they were not funded by government and not legal. Abortions are not good and do not contribute to society -- PERIOD. Regardless, there will never be no abortions...
As far as causing a near end to abortion I cannot believe we have not done this:
Music!!! I think music is an important tool and the a key to opening up the heart. The subject is in fact heart wrenching so very emotionally charged music and songs should not be hard to write and sing with the help of God. I have written a song but am not much of a singer and not a professional. The music should be raw, charged with feeling and cause the listener to want to cry.
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