Posted on 07/26/2006 5:33:50 AM PDT by Numbers Guy
Conception — the point at which life begins. At least it is according to the fundamentalist community, anyway. The stance of Right to Life supporters is that abortion is outright murder and deprivation of life. I disagree. How can you kill something that is not yet living? Besides, banning abortion deprives the mother of her rights to property and to the pursuit of happiness. A fetus is not a living human, and the mother has the right to decide to abort it.
During the first trimester of the pregnancy, the fetus is merely a wad of cells. A mere wad of cells doesn't equate to a fully functioning, living human being. A wad of cells cannot make its own cognitive decisions. A wad of cells doesn't have the capability to inhale or exhale with its lungs. A wad of cells cannot survive independently, as it relies completely on its mother for all its nutriment.
So why would anyone provide a wad of cells with the outrageous status of a living human being?
The point I am trying to make here is that a fetus is not a living human, and therefore, an abortion is not responsible for annihilating a human's life. Besides, in legal terms, the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade concluded that human life does not begin until life can be sustained outside of the womb. Medically speaking, premature fetuses can very rarely be kept alive if they are born before the pregnancy's sixth month, or the end of the second trimester.
The mother deserves every right to make a decision to abort her fetus. The supreme law of our land, the U.S. Constitution, guarantees Americans have the right to their property. Are pets not considered the property of a human? Humans provide pets with food, water and a habitat, just as a mother provides a fetus a habitat inside of the womb, along with food and oxygen.
And because mom houses the fetus — that not only required her X sex chromosome, but also gained half its chromosome pairs from her ovum — the fetus should be considered property of its mother. Not to mention, the wad of cells inside her doesn't have the ability to choose for itself.
Banning abortion would be a greater deprivation of basic human rights than continuing to uphold it. So why not allow the mother her innate right to decide whether or not this wad of cells will grow into a human?
If anything, a fetus is merely a parasitical creature that uses the mother as its host.
Tapeworms are parasites that house themselves in the intestinal tracts of humans, feeding off the food the host consumes. Comparatively, a fetus is little more than a tapeworm. It is quite common for humans to annihilate parasites with medications or toxins, so why not allow for fetuses to suffer the same fate?
Now let's compare the Right to Life stance of abortion to the tragic fate of many fertilized eggs.
Fundamentalists fiercely oppose abortion because they believe it is murder. They often recognize those who are "slaughtered" by holding vigils and other ceremonies.
Do any of these individuals realize that according to the National Institutes of Health, 25 percent of conceived embryos perish within the first six weeks due to complications such as failure to implant to the uterus wall? That's right — a quarter of all "humans" conceived end up "dying."
It would appear that the "loving" God of these fundamentalists is many more times guilty of murder than all the human race's abortionists combined.
If life begins at conception, why is it that Catholics and other fundamentalist groups don't have funerals for all these dead "babies"? Why not hold candlelit vigils for all who fail to implant themselves? Or wait, better yet, why don't we supply a birth certificate to all those embryos who died shortly after conception? Why not make them legal citizens too?
Do these last few statements seem absolutely asinine? Then some of you are in dire need of rethinking your anti-abortion stance.
Life begins when the baby is passed through the birth canal and exits the womb. At this point, the baby is no longer physically connected to the mother and no longer freeloading its nutrients and oxygen from mommy.
Shane Krouse is an MSU sophomore and State News columnist. Reach him at krousesh@msu.edu.
These are the "magic talismen" that are supposed to make everyone whole and well, and even Senator Kennedy would cringe at the idea someone would describe them as a mere "wad of cells".
My prediction is this kid will not succeed in his chosen field of Democratic party propaganda ~
What is the difference between the spark and the fire? Merely time and opportunity.
hmmm....Well a 4 year old can't survive independently either. So, a 4 year old is not a living person?
I get the impression that Shane is dealing with a touch of guilt of his own... maybe a little carelessness with a girlfriend...
I believe the 11th through 13th amendments deprive the mother of this particular "property", and "pursuit of happiness' has never been a defense to murder.
Imbecilic. Really unconscionably stupid. Blitheringly so.
The self delusion and myopia of the death cult is breathtaking.
Young, angry, stupid, void of logic, compassion, and common sense. This angry lesbian conveniently fails to mention any part a father plays in conception. She has probably been freeloading off her parents at home for all her life and, according to her, can still be aborted. Take a shower, and shave those hairy armpits, Stupid.
Yeah, and abortion might tend to interfere with the pursuit of happiness of the fetus.
Ouch..I didn't even look at the article before I replied. SHe is a hairy lesbo! They really are that transparent.
When reading this article, I kept wondering how young this person was. I was honestly thinking about 12 or 14.
Whoops again..That's a guy?! YICHHH!
A 12 week wad of cells (first trimester)
Succinct summation of the pov of this pos.
Someone better get a refund for Shane's tution. Cause either he is too dumb to be in college or the college he attends is encouraging his stupidity. Why do I have a sinking feeling it is the latter?.
As for parasites, maybe Shane should look in the mirror and be grateful that retroactive abortion is not legal (yet).
They used to. They would retrieve the baby bodies from the dumpsters and give them a proper burial.
So the abortuaries stopped dumping the baby bodies into dumpsters and began grinding them in garbage disposals. Idiot.
You can hardly blame a kid for a perspective that has been supported in his secular education. He has been perfectly indoctrinated, and perfectly misguided.
But he can be reached. I was once one of those women who thought women should have the right to abort. And I was totally closed to any other opinion. In fact, I didn't think that men had a right to an opinion in the private or public decision-making regarding abortion. I was nutso.
But my heart was changed. And this man's can be, too.
What terrible things our children are being told. Right to life denied to one group, sooner or later, leads to any group at risk.
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