The Year is 1861 and America is at war with America.
Brothers are fighting against brothers and the North and South – side by side –
couldn’t be much further apart. There was a lot more to the Civil War than
simply the rights of the states and the rights of black human beings, but those
are the two things I am focusing on for now.
There are two reasons I bring up the Civil war. One reason is because I
believe there is a significant tie from the inhumane slavery done in our nation
to the murder of millions of unborn babies.
Slaves in 1861 were viewed as property, not as individuals with rights.
They were thought of by many to be less than human. Babies in 2013 are viewed
as property as well – property of the woman who is pregnant based on the
argument that the baby is part of her body. They are thought to be less than
human because of the argument that they are only tissue or “potential” person
until birth. We’ve already discussed why
a baby is not the woman’s body – part of her body in a unique way –yes, but her
actual body, no. We won’t go over all that again now, so we’ll just assume you
understand that fact ;) A second reason for bringing up the Civil War is the
issue of rights. The southern states were not going to stay in a union where
they would soon have to give up their way of life – slavery. They felt that the
state had the right to decide for itself what was and wasn’t right in this
issue. The same can be said of a woman
today in her “rights”.
Now let’s hash out the issue of “Women’s Rights”. I just
happen to be a woman and I am very thankful that I have the rights I have as an
American citizen and as a person. I have the right to vote, to work, to be
treated with respect and dignity. This was not always the case. I believe the
feminist movement, if I can call it that, began with very noble intentions.
Women should be treated with equality in the right to vote, to have a say in
things, to go to work if so choosing, to go to college and be educated to
whatever level desired, etc….however, somewhere along the way women forgot that
they are women and not men. We are very different from each other – beautifully
so. Men and women have unique and distinct characteristics – physically, emotionally,
and mentally. We were created equal in
some sense, but very different in another sense. For example, my printer is a great machine –
it has ink and it has paper. They are equally important, but they do very
different things. Without the ink, the paper is blank and without the paper,
the ink has nowhere to go. Or the sun vs. rain – equally important, but very
different. It is the same with men and women. In our day, however, women seem
to think that we aren’t just equal in our importance, but that we should be
treated the same exact way – which I think is ridiculous. And actually it seems
more and more that die-hard feminists seems to think that women aren’t equal,
but better. Anyway, abortion supporters are constantly saying that if abortion
is outlawed, women lose their rights. I don’t think so. What right do women
have to kill another human being? Why do women feel that by having a baby they
are losing their rights? Rights aren’t being lost; you are being given the
opportunity to give life to another. And how many of those millions of babies
are girls? That certainly seems ironic – she is losing her rights before being
born, but where is the feminists’ outcry on that? And I know someone is saying, yes, but what
about the rape cases and the incest cases or when a woman’s life is in
jeopardy? Well here are some very interesting statistics on those very
concerns: According to the CDC about 1%
of abortions are due to rape or incest and about 3% are due to concern for the
life of the mother. This is an
astonishing percentage to me considering how often these 3 concerns are brought
up in arguing for abortion rights. And how many of the women who are in these
percentages go through with an abortion simply because they’ve grown up being
taught that a baby is only tissue anyway.
So if only 1-3% is for rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother,
that means that 97% of abortions are for other reasons. What are those reasons?
Here is a list from sources such as the CDC, planned parenthood, and Johnston
Archive: too young, too immature, not
enough money, not responsible enough, would interfere with education, not good
with relationships, pressure from parents or partner( very small percentage on
this one), not married or don’t have a support system, too many children
already, sex selection. Every single one
of these reasons can be answered by either not being selfish or by means of
adoption. So in the end of all this feminism and pushing for women's rights, women actually end up on the losing end. We have turned ourselves into men - instead of embracing our femininity and actually being women, we try so hard to not be seen as women. (I could go into so much more on this topic, but that is for another post.)
So I believe abortion is wrong and I believe women have a
choice – the choice to give life, to allow an innocent child the chance at
life. Who are we, as women, to say who does and doesn’t deserve that chance?
That is not up to us. There is a simple cure, by the way, for women who feel
they are too young to have a child. Don’t have sex. It is that simple for them.
If you aren’t married, don’t have sex. Our culture thinks this is the most
restrictive, old-fashioned thing to say, but what is so incredibly awful about
abstinence? Nothing. Why do parents not only think their kids are going to do
it anyway, but now they arm their kids with condoms and talks on how to be “safe”
when (not if) they engage in sexual activity. (To me it is as crazy as not wanting your kid to go kill someone, but they will probably do it so we might as well teach them how to use a gun properly.) This is a ridiculous mindset.
There was an article in the local paper not that long ago about this uproar
over a local pro-life organization that was in the schools teaching kids about
abstinence. One of the kids was excited about this concept and when he told his
mother, she was up in arms – furious about it. What?! Are you kidding me? So
parents WANT their kids to be sexually active? Besides avoiding pregnancy when
it is not desired, you also avoid a myriad of STD’s and emotional baggage.
Please – inform me of just one positive affect premarital sex has on our kids,
on our families, on our society, because I can’t think of a single one. There was a time when pregnancy was kept hush
hush and sexual activity was not talked about. I am not naïve enough to believe
it wasn’t happening, but there was a general disdain for it. Now we not only
talk about it, we flaunt it – flashing our so-called “sexual freedom” in
everyone’s face. There really ought to be a balance here. Parents of the 50’s, for example, were
ashamed of their pregnant teenager so much so that they would at times send her
away - a “confinement” for the duration of her pregnancy – anything to hide the
“shame”. I believe this way of thinking was a critical part of leading up to
abortions being performed left and right. If you can just “get rid of it” then
no one will be the wiser. And we justify
our actions with lies like “it is only tissue”; it isn’t really a “person”. And this is so easy to do when the life
inside is just that – inside. You can’t see it and we all know that seeing is
believing. Which explains why ultrasounds are so very powerful! So we went from a wrong attitude toward
pregnancy in the 50’s (example, I realize there are other decades with the same
attitude) to a just as wrong attitude in our current time. Now it isn’t a “shameful”
or “disgraceful” thing to be pregnant. Not it is “inconvenient”. And no wonder we don’t view the baby as a
baby because we’ve spent years justifying abortion. The word abortion is a
nicer word than what it actually means. Stop. Cease. End. Cut off. This is what
abortion does – stops a beating heart, ceases to allow life to continue, ends a
life - cuts it off.
I know many are aware of President Obama’s recent speech
supporting Planned Parenthood. He pledges that he will stand behind them and in very strategic
rhetoric makes us believe that Planned Parenthood is in the business of giving “health
care” to women. Baloney. They are in the business of killing babies – plain and
simple. Sure, they provide health care to women, but what is being "backed up" isn't health care, it is the abortion aspect. Abortion is a multi-million dollar industry. And like it or not, abortion has very much
become a political issue. And even though President Obama asked God to bless
Planned Parenthood, I am pretty sure that is not going to happen. God is
pro-life and PP is not. How can we possibly think we can ask God to bless
something completely and totally in opposition to His Word?? Don’t get what I
am saying wrong. I am not trying to say that God will bring down fire on their
clinics or anything of the sort, but simply that we can’t expect God to “bless” (meaning allow them to prosper and flourish)
that organization as our President apparently expects. I would say God bless
those who work there and show them the truth of what they are doing.
Anyways, I am going off on a bit of a bunny trail. The point
of this entire post is to try to point out to you that women do have rights,
but those rights should not interfere with another individual’s rights in the
case of pregnancy. If you are pro-life, then speak up! Say what the truth is
and do it in love. If you are pro-choice – well, this is America and (as my Dad
would say) you have the right to be wrong.
;) Just kidding. If you are
pro-choice I hope you will open your eyes and truly try to see the truth of the
lives that are being snuffed out by the hundreds of thousands each year. And one more thing – the Civil War, in the
end, decided that state’s rights didn’t trump human life. A slave was a human
being and needed to be treated as such. State’s rights were important – are important,
just as a woman’s rights are important. But when it comes down to life, life
wins.
