As I prepare to wander out the door to SAFECO Field to catch Seattle's Opening Day game against the ChiSox, a question has occurred to me that I can't resist asking in the short form.
• Among other things, do anti-choice religionists still hold that abortion diminishes the value of human life?
• Against what standard would we compare that?
Example, drawn from life: This involves the ongoing saga of two people of very close acquaintance of mine. E and T are your run-of-the-mill unmarried couple, monogamous to our knowledge for six years running now.
T cannot use the pill; she has never come across a contraceptive pill that does not devastate her body's necessary chemical balance. T does not like to use condoms; most brands give her an allergic latex reaction, and goat-skin condoms ... well, who isn't slightly repulsed by the nature of the things? Besides, they're not that great of condoms. There are some contraceptive options that don't have great detriment to her, but the point is that despite their best efforts, she does, occasionally, conceive. Due to Rh factor, E and T have been told that they cannot reproduce without medical assistance. This principle is, in fact, in effect at present.
Specifically, since life begins at conception according to the anti-choice religionists, I submit the following question: having watched three accidental (unplanned) pregnancies go south due to Rh factor, resulting in the death of the embryo and, in one case, the fetus, I'm curious about why God would bless a conception with the full will of not allowing the pregnancy to gestate. In this case, God is the abortionist.
Now, I'm all for the idea that when people can't reproduce without a specific degree of medical assistance, they should not. But this is ridiculous. I cannot hold that God is telling this couple to not reproduce or, given the accidental nature of the pregnancies, to not have sex. After all, isn't the murder of an unborn human being an extreme way to make a point?
Not to mention I've seen this process occur in another couple of my acquaintance once. Despite their best efforts, though, this is what we think is the third or fourth time E and T have gone through this--only two pregnancies have ever been confirmed, and T reports that this happened once before she made E's acquaintance. When it happened seven years ago, another friend of mine, S, reported that she miscarried in my bathroom while I was asleep ... I took her down to the doctor, where it was confirmed that she was in a pretty bad state because of this miscarriage, and she soon after terminated her relationship with that boyfriend.
But come on ... this is ridiculous. It looks to me like God, who blesses conception, does so for the purpose of exploiting this "human life" in a mortal example. By the anti-choice religionists' explanation of it,then, I have to ask why God is diminishing the value of human life through this manner of exploitation?
One to think on.
thanx,
Tiassa
• Among other things, do anti-choice religionists still hold that abortion diminishes the value of human life?
• Against what standard would we compare that?
Example, drawn from life: This involves the ongoing saga of two people of very close acquaintance of mine. E and T are your run-of-the-mill unmarried couple, monogamous to our knowledge for six years running now.
T cannot use the pill; she has never come across a contraceptive pill that does not devastate her body's necessary chemical balance. T does not like to use condoms; most brands give her an allergic latex reaction, and goat-skin condoms ... well, who isn't slightly repulsed by the nature of the things? Besides, they're not that great of condoms. There are some contraceptive options that don't have great detriment to her, but the point is that despite their best efforts, she does, occasionally, conceive. Due to Rh factor, E and T have been told that they cannot reproduce without medical assistance. This principle is, in fact, in effect at present.
Specifically, since life begins at conception according to the anti-choice religionists, I submit the following question: having watched three accidental (unplanned) pregnancies go south due to Rh factor, resulting in the death of the embryo and, in one case, the fetus, I'm curious about why God would bless a conception with the full will of not allowing the pregnancy to gestate. In this case, God is the abortionist.
Now, I'm all for the idea that when people can't reproduce without a specific degree of medical assistance, they should not. But this is ridiculous. I cannot hold that God is telling this couple to not reproduce or, given the accidental nature of the pregnancies, to not have sex. After all, isn't the murder of an unborn human being an extreme way to make a point?
Not to mention I've seen this process occur in another couple of my acquaintance once. Despite their best efforts, though, this is what we think is the third or fourth time E and T have gone through this--only two pregnancies have ever been confirmed, and T reports that this happened once before she made E's acquaintance. When it happened seven years ago, another friend of mine, S, reported that she miscarried in my bathroom while I was asleep ... I took her down to the doctor, where it was confirmed that she was in a pretty bad state because of this miscarriage, and she soon after terminated her relationship with that boyfriend.
But come on ... this is ridiculous. It looks to me like God, who blesses conception, does so for the purpose of exploiting this "human life" in a mortal example. By the anti-choice religionists' explanation of it,then, I have to ask why God is diminishing the value of human life through this manner of exploitation?
One to think on.
thanx,
Tiassa