For 40 years now, I’ve been Pro-Choice on the issue of abortion.
I’ve now changed my mind.
It makes no sense to me that a zygote is a person. The idea that abortion if awful from the moment of conception makes no sense to me. For a really good case for the Pro-Life side, watch this Dave Rubin show. I personally don’t buy it–the woman rests her pro-life case on the sanctity of the zygote. Sorry, a blob of two cells who just happened to merge up doesn’t make a person.
I recognize that as these cells grow they at some point become a person. We can keep arguing about when. Looks like 20 weeks is the current consensus. Certainly a random third semester abortion is murder.
So, I have no scientific reason to not be Pro-Choice, up to a point.
I’m becoming increasingly Pro-Life because of women. I know a lot of women who have had abortions. Few of them have any moral clarity about it. Listen to them talk. It’s all crap like it’s their very first therapy session.
They get abortions because they really need them. They are in bad circumstances–mom is going to be mad, dad is going to be mad, their education is interrupted, boyfriend is totally mad. Our society teaches these women that abortion is just fine. It’s their right, they need it, it’s made an easy way out.
I know a perfectly lovely church woman who has has three abortions. Actually, I don’t know the bell curve, but I bet a lot more women than not have had more than one abortion. After all, we have a million abortions a year in this country. So much for safe, friendly, rare.
What is the effect of having an abortion on most women? It’s a lot worse than we think it is. Because most women who get an abortion do it in haste and have to think about it for the rest of their lives. Most women in America who get abortions really have no idea whether doing it is right or wrong.
Here’s my theory about female morality:
Let’s say you can measure morality from 1 to 10. At any given age point on that scale, women are at least 2 points behind men. The notion that women mature morally faster than men do is idiotic. Women are passive, women need men and so women appear to be more morally advanced, unless they’re sluts. But women nearly completely fail to understand the hard and fast situations that men encounter that make men grow up morally. Men are confronted far earlier and far more often with corruption and temptation than women are. It is quite an achievement for a man to make it through his early twenties with his morals intact.
For women, they are much less often abandoned to making hard moral decisions on their own when they are young, and often the first hard moral decision is whether to get an abortion. Because women are less morally independent than men, and more “socially oriented” in making moral decisions, they are at very big risk when making this decision. As they look for guidance in killing their baby, they take in all the feminazi propaganda that says, it’s fine, it’s not a person, your rights, your body, your life.
As women mature, this rationalization nags at them.
That baby is dead. They killed it. For convenience. They sense it was wrong, and they build a wall of rationalization around their gut feeling that what they did was wrong. They hadn’t developed any decent moral clarity before they went for suction. They sense they killed a baby every time they see another family with a baby. So what they do is become ever more feminist, ever more defensive of what they did, and ever more alienated from reasonable moral thinking. They drag a plethora of other stupid feminist ideology into their brains as a defense.
Getting an abortion deadens them morally. The Left wants more women to get abortions because after you’re a tacit Lady MacBeth, you’re easy to manipulate.
There’s some feminist broad running around right now bragging about having 30 abortions. I’m surprised her uterus hasn’t fallen out on the ground. Tell me, how defensive is she?
Young women shouldn’t get abortions. Or, if they do, explain to me exactly why it is OK. Because if you don’t know why it is OK, you have some serious haunting to deal with the rest of your life.