An Issue of Rights
I woke this morning thinking about abortion, a subject I post and tweet about occasionally. For some reason I cannot fathom, I went back into the heightened feelings about the subject that I experienced while writing my novel “A Halo of Strawberries” (2012).
This time, what got be going, was the human rights aspects.
Wikipedia defines human rights as follows:
‘Human rights are moral principles or norms, which describe certain standards of human behaviour, and are regularly protected as legal rights in municipal and international law. They are commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being," and which are "inherent in all human beings" regardless of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnic origin or any other status. They are applicable everywhere and at every time in the sense of being universal, and they are egalitarian in the sense of being the same for everyone.’
Women’s rights are, on the otherhand, described by Wikipedia as:
‘...rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls of many societies worldwide, and formed the basis to the women's rights movement in the nineteenth century and feminist movement during the 20th century.’
The summarised case for abortion as a women’s right is made at this web page: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%2...
I understand the arguement. I researched it thoroughly as the author of “Halo of Strawberries”.
To me, it’s the human cost of the women’s right that makes it unacceptable. For every exercise of it a human life is forfeit. Mothers-to-be are parties to the legalised genocide of millions of unborn children annually; an appalling moral crime.
People can blind themselves to it. Societies can condone it by majority rule.
I’m all for women having reproductive rights (including birth control and abstinence). I can’t condone women who get pregnant by consensual sex (in general) making up for their mistakes at the cost of the lives of their unborn children. They use abortion as the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.
I had to again post about this out of shame for mankind’s worst legalised crime.
This time, what got be going, was the human rights aspects.
Wikipedia defines human rights as follows:
‘Human rights are moral principles or norms, which describe certain standards of human behaviour, and are regularly protected as legal rights in municipal and international law. They are commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being," and which are "inherent in all human beings" regardless of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnic origin or any other status. They are applicable everywhere and at every time in the sense of being universal, and they are egalitarian in the sense of being the same for everyone.’
Women’s rights are, on the otherhand, described by Wikipedia as:
‘...rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls of many societies worldwide, and formed the basis to the women's rights movement in the nineteenth century and feminist movement during the 20th century.’
The summarised case for abortion as a women’s right is made at this web page: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%2...
I understand the arguement. I researched it thoroughly as the author of “Halo of Strawberries”.
To me, it’s the human cost of the women’s right that makes it unacceptable. For every exercise of it a human life is forfeit. Mothers-to-be are parties to the legalised genocide of millions of unborn children annually; an appalling moral crime.
People can blind themselves to it. Societies can condone it by majority rule.
I’m all for women having reproductive rights (including birth control and abstinence). I can’t condone women who get pregnant by consensual sex (in general) making up for their mistakes at the cost of the lives of their unborn children. They use abortion as the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.
I had to again post about this out of shame for mankind’s worst legalised crime.
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