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When a society ACCEPTS that an individual has a RIGHT to position an unborn baby in the birth canal with only the head remaining inside and then allows the puncture of the skull with a pair of forceps and then the insertion of a tube to evacuate the skull (removing the brain) and collapsing the skull, then that society is no longer a civilization!

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This is a significant article that requires careful reading a couple of times followed by serious contemplation of what the inferential consequences may be of what I suspect is a perpetual watershed event. The legitimization of abortion is not going to be ended. At most it will be returned to the individual states purview. There will always be somewhere (San Francisco for instance) that will welcome abortion and its providers.

The most significant effect of abortion legitimization, to me, is the blurring of the line of the individuals right to life. If the mother can elect to destroy her offspring for any reason she sees fit why do not other players in society possess some right to do the same. Disabled children or adults are a serious drain on the resources of the community. Why should completely unproductive lives be extended. What are the rights of a child's life versus the consensus of the community or state on the reduction of greenhouse gases or carbon footprint reduction. These are not meant to be absurd remarks. Once the threshold is crossed many possibilities suggest themselves to those who would shape and manipulate the population. If life has no intrinsic value than it can be considered as a husbandman considers the development of his/her herd.

In America, all our constitutional protections rest on the Founders' premise that all human beings are "endowed by their Creator" with rights to both life and the liberty to "pursue happiness." That is the sole reason those rights are deemed unalienable--because they are derived, not from another human being, not from a government, not even from the mother, but from God.

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." - Thomas Jefferson

That understanding underlies every other consideration embodied in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. It is the very basis of our rights to life, liberty, and laws to protect them.

Since the 1970's, technological advances have enabled us to observe God's tiniest creations in the womb. We no longer have an excuse for imagining that these are blobs of tissue labeled "fetuses." They are living babies who will have life and liberty if we do not "destroy" them.

At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC on February 3, 1994, Mother Teresa stated: “And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"

Indeed, if we cannot protect the life and liberty of these smallest versions of ourselves, even with their so-called "imperfections," then Mother Teresa's words take on significant meaning.

I understand that the article is sociological rather than spiritual, but the two cannot really be separated.

The primary spiritual damage that the current abortion regime did is that it made all Americans, as citizens of a republic supposedly run by the people and for the people complicit in murder of innocents.

The abortion regime also deprived us of the safety of knowing that the government we live under is legitimate. If they can do abortions in our names, what other legislation is out there in our name that is equally illegitimate? Why should we afford any authority to our government?

This part embraces insane falsehoods:

If an unwed couple find themselves pregnant, the man, rather than taking responsibility and marrying his girlfriend, feels that he can just pay for an abortion and be done with “it,” leaving the girlfriend to feel the loss, pain, and guilt.

The reality is that it is women who are killing the children by abortion, not the fathers of those children. in every case the woman, and the woman only, is legally authorized to sign for the abortion. Fathers of babies aren't looking to "be done with" fatherhood; fathers of babies are looking to protect their children from the women willfully killing those children via abortion.

If the woman decides to have and keep the baby, she is now left alone to raise a child and the man is free to live his life as he pleases.

Also completely opposite to actual reality: in most cases, the woman GETS THE PRIVILEGE of raising the couple's child while the father of the child is deprived of his right to live with his own child and parent.