OK, you are right..
.they have been conditioned to believe they have power over their bodies....or.
..this is only about a 'product' of conception.....or
the 'law' says we can.
Even given all those arguments....do you really believe most women have no idea their product of conception is a .....baby...
..not even a basic idea.
Do you think they believe they have a mosquito...
or a silkworm or
...a prairiedog ...in their bellies?....even when their bellies are rounding and growing at say....4 months, 6 months or more...gestation.
Yet they abort.
teenyelliott....what would you call it?...if not evil?
I really want to know.
No, I don't believe that.
I do believe that young women have no real grasp of the seriousness of their actions. They are raised in a country that tells them that abortion is just "a procedure", that it is no more serious than having a root canal.
Most young people give no weight to anything that has life and death consequences, whether it is abortion or driving drunk or doing drugs or any number of things that young people do, without regard to what might happen.
Now, I differentiate between those kind of people, who I do not judge but instead feel sorry for, as they will come to realize the gravity of what they have done when they are older, and women like those in the story who have been pregnant before, have had babies before, and choose abortion as some sort of unnatural selection. THOSE women I have enormous disdain for, and they know what they have done.
However, I still would not label them evil. The reason I don't is because as a society, the rules and laws that we make are what we expect people to follow, and that is what becomes acceptable to the vast majority, even though you and I might feel differently.
As an example, it used to be the norm that women were routinely accused of witchcraft, and either burned at the stake or drowned. We would believe their persecutors to be evil, but at the time that is how the majority of society functioned. Another example would be the convicted being drawn and quartered in the public square. Or Indians being walked down the Trail of Tears, or Hiroshima being bombed and children being incinerated, or Alexander the Great conquering territory and his men raping pillaging and plundering along the way.
All of those things are terrible, yet I am loathe to throw around the word "evil", to apply to anyone who does things I consider to be very, very wrong.
I live in Wichita, where the infamous George Tiller performs even late term abortions. THAT man is evil, and I hope that his soul pays for his deeds for eternity. He knows full well what he is doing, and counsels even the most frightened and doubtful girls to continue on the path that they have chosen. He has even done late term abortions on mentally retarded girls, one of which I know died from the operation.
Not all women are smart, and not all women think that abortion is wrong because they have been told since they were young that it is okay. If you raise a child to believe that the color blue is actually green, that is what they will know to be true. If you raise a child to believe that abortion is just a "procedure", to be used anytime a "problem" arises, then that is how they will see it.
I do not label people evil for the result of how they are raised. I label them ignorant.