(8) Increased illegal immigration.
Since abortion has been a legally accepted form of birth control, the US has gone steady downhill, coincidence ... I think not.
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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.
"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?
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.