October 14th, 2012
Silent Day of Solidarity.
As someone who has many pro-life friends, I've been hearing about this for weeks. It's a day for people who stand against abortion to show their support for the pro-life movement. They tape their mouths and wear red armbands to identify themselves.
I've also seen arguments about abortion. Many arguments, and debates, that get heated very quickly. Abortion is a sensitive issue, and an extremely personal one. I saw a blow-up recently, because one of my friends called abortion murder, and people thought that she was jumping the gun.
So I would like to explore this issue with you today.
The definition of murder as given by The Free Dictionary is this:
1. To kill (another human) unlawfully.
2. To kill brutally or inhumanly.
3. To put an end to; destroy: murdered their chances.
4. To spoil by ineptness; mutilate: a speech that murdered the English language.
5. Slang To defeat decisively; trounce.
For our purposes, we will use the second and third, since abortion is legal in the United States.
There are people who say that a fetus is not human until birth, or until a certain point in their development within the uterus.
Citing definition three, 'to put an end to; destroy.' An abortion is ending something that, if left alone, would develop into a human child. Citing definition two, abortions done after twenty weeks cause pain to the child, or, if you prefer, fetus, and could possibly cause pain earlier than that.
However, even without the pain issue, this fetus would grow, without the intervention of an abortion, into a human child. Abortion is ending this life, in that it cannot continue, again, citing definition three.
But some kind, loving people ask about women pregnant as a result of rape. Some people, due to their protecting nature, don't want to heap guilt upon these women by calling abortion murder. And yes, they have been violated. They have been hurt, and taken advantage of. The questions are these: if abortion is murder, then which is worse: the rape that caused the child, or to punish the child for the sins of the father? And if abortion is, by definition, murder, then why sugar-coat it? Surely these strong women can handle the truth.
Two wrongs don't make a right, as the old saying goes. Is the presence of one egregious wrong, the rape, making it the right thing to do by taking the life of the resultant child?
As someone who has many pro-life friends, I've been hearing about this for weeks. It's a day for people who stand against abortion to show their support for the pro-life movement. They tape their mouths and wear red armbands to identify themselves.
I've also seen arguments about abortion. Many arguments, and debates, that get heated very quickly. Abortion is a sensitive issue, and an extremely personal one. I saw a blow-up recently, because one of my friends called abortion murder, and people thought that she was jumping the gun.
So I would like to explore this issue with you today.
The definition of murder as given by The Free Dictionary is this:
1. To kill (another human) unlawfully.
2. To kill brutally or inhumanly.
3. To put an end to; destroy: murdered their chances.
4. To spoil by ineptness; mutilate: a speech that murdered the English language.
5. Slang To defeat decisively; trounce.
For our purposes, we will use the second and third, since abortion is legal in the United States.
There are people who say that a fetus is not human until birth, or until a certain point in their development within the uterus.
Citing definition three, 'to put an end to; destroy.' An abortion is ending something that, if left alone, would develop into a human child. Citing definition two, abortions done after twenty weeks cause pain to the child, or, if you prefer, fetus, and could possibly cause pain earlier than that.
However, even without the pain issue, this fetus would grow, without the intervention of an abortion, into a human child. Abortion is ending this life, in that it cannot continue, again, citing definition three.
But some kind, loving people ask about women pregnant as a result of rape. Some people, due to their protecting nature, don't want to heap guilt upon these women by calling abortion murder. And yes, they have been violated. They have been hurt, and taken advantage of. The questions are these: if abortion is murder, then which is worse: the rape that caused the child, or to punish the child for the sins of the father? And if abortion is, by definition, murder, then why sugar-coat it? Surely these strong women can handle the truth.
Two wrongs don't make a right, as the old saying goes. Is the presence of one egregious wrong, the rape, making it the right thing to do by taking the life of the resultant child?
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