January 9th 2009
Convenient abortions
By Marie Alena Castle
It is absolutely despicable that these anti-abortion letter writers (the latest being Hale Meserow on Jan. 2) get so misty eyed over the abortion loss of an unfeeling, unthinking, partially formed fetus, yet dismiss the fully sentient woman as a self-centered airhead acting only out of “convenience.” Such heartless contempt for women is appalling! Without safe and legal abortions, hundreds of women have died in this country, and still do around the world every year from illegal and self-induced abortions. Doesn’t it ever occur to these tunnel visioned sadists that, just maybe, these are desperate women facing severe and very personal physical, economic, social and psychological challenges that none of their “pro-life” insultingly trivial promises of a year’s supply of diapers, or whatever, can lessen?
If Meserow and his fellow misogynists succeed in making abortion “a sad memory,” it will not become “unthinkable as slavery,” it will BE slavery-reproductive slavery for women, no longer able to live as free, self-determining human beings. Given that illegal abortions will certainly continue, so will the deaths of desperate women. Will Meserow and his cohorts care about the loss of these women? Hardly. They didn’t before Roe v Wade. Women will continue to be for these patriarchal control freaks what they have always been through the ages-nothing more than vessels for childbearing, and disposable ones at that.
6 Comments »
this website is twisted on 13 Feb 2009 at 12:19am #
wow. this site makes me sick.
athinker on 06 Jul 2009 at 02:36pm #
Women make self-determining decisions days before a fetus is in her body. Once the decision is made, its made. And people can’t always have the results the way the want, but the decision was hers. But after that, another life besides hers needs to be considered. Her power over life shouldn’t be superior just because she has more years under her belt than the fetus. That is power abuse.
Scott on 25 Jul 2009 at 09:04am #
Women do not always make this decision, there is such a thing as rape. There are also circumstances where the woman’s life is in danger, the fetus is very badly damaged or mal-formed, … Who are you to decide what is right for everyone else? The name athinker is quite fitting, the a before a word usually denotes it’s opposite
Lee Shelton on 09 Sep 2009 at 12:29pm #
Who is anyone to decide what is right for the life of the unborn baby? To skirt the issue Marie and other atheists prefer to use terms like “unfeeling, unthinking, partially formed fetus.”
I’m interested in knowing how someone with a purely naturalistic worldview accounts for things like “right” and “wrong.” If we’re all just a collection of atoms, who cares?
Lee Shelton on 09 Sep 2009 at 03:01pm #
Marie, you replied via email:
“Interfering with a woman’s right to control her bodily processes is nothing more than extended rape. A rapist essentially is forcing a woman to bear a child against her will. Laws restricting or prohibiting abortion do the same thing. You may get all misty-eyed over the fate of a fetus, but it’s none of your business. Absolutely none! Especially since you cannot, and would not take over the pregnancy, childbirth and childrearing for her. You’re not better than the rapist who impregnates her and runs off.”
My wife and I just adopted a child, and we are in the process of adopting two more. Please don’t tell me that we don’t care. Just because you wouldn’t take on that responsibility doesn’t mean someone else wouldn’t. There is no such thing as an unwanted child. Our belief as Christians is that every human is created in the image of God, therefore we cannot justify destroying an innocent life because of another person’s sin.
What’s interesting is that pro-aborts always fall back on the rape issue. However, you believe that a woman should be able to abort her child at any point during her pregnancy for any reason, so don’t pretend that you’re taking the moral high ground here.
Which brings me back to my original comment: How do you account for morality? What is your basis for making any kind of moral judgment? If the fate of the fetus isn’t my business, then I could argue that the mother’s fate is of no concern of yours. You don’t believe in a moral Law-Giver, so how can one collection of atoms be deemed any more important than another?
Scott on 21 Sep 2009 at 12:57am #
If you don’t want to have an abortion then don’t. If you think it’s a sin then let your god take care of it. It really is none of your business. You must also believe, as a Christian that stoning a gay person or an adulterer is OK, after all it’s in your book to do so. If you are one of the many that claim “that is the old testament” then you should consider that so are the 10 commandments. If you claim “Jesus changed that” please state the verse.
Is it really possible for a person to have an abortion if it is not the “will of God”? Seems like it would just be unsuccessful if it were not his will. Perhaps the fetus would just keep re-appearing as if nothing happened. It seems like an all powerful God could manage that. It would certainly make me re-think the whole thing.