By Matt for the TIB Network:
Okay, it's lunchtime, so I did do a little BlogExplosion surfing...On Continuum: From Left To Right, the proprietor, one Craig Harmon poses this question:
Is ending abortion altogether a practical or even desirable goal to achieve in America and why do you think so?Really, what we have here is two questions: one regarding the practicality of ending abortion, which is a political question; and the other being the desirability of ending abortion, which is a moral/ethical question.
My answer is yes and yes.
The Political Question
Politicians can accomplish whatever the constituency clearly stand behind. If we are to be a "culture of life" in this country, we must face the abortion issue head on and have the debate. It will be, as the President has been heard to say a lot lately, "hard work." But it is important work.As an aside, liberals tend to be the abortion advocates. Their numbers are slowly but surely dwindling. Think about that for a minute...
The Moral/Ethical Question
The much more interesting question is whether or not it is desirable to ban abortion in this country.Most abortion advocates tend to also be animal rights people. A generalization, sure, but one I'd be willing to accept as an axiom (especially since I'm the one who came up with it!). Isn't it curious that some liberals will will have a cow if a monkey gets killed (think evolution here), but can't understand that killing a fetus is killing a baby.
I don't think anybody is going to advocate taking the doctors ability to do what is neccessary to protect a woman in harm. I have never bought that argument. Extenuating circumstances aren't a reason to prevent the slaughter of the unborn. No one is going to charge a doctor with murder if he kills a baby in order to save the mother.
I'm a spiritual, but not religious, guy. I believe that God created man (and women too). Somehow. I think science is nothing more than an exploration of the methods God used to create. I have yet to hear a scientific reason for abortion.
