Simple question. We know that it is possible for a baby born at 21 weeks to survive. It has happened. If that is the date of viability, is an abortion after that date murder? Murder here is a non-legal definition - simply defined as "the killing of another human being."
If a woman has an abortion at 21 weeks, and she says
1) I am a murderer - I would agree with her
or
2) I am not a murderer - I would also agree with her
Something I taught my godson when he was young was that he was not responsible, nor should he put himself in a position to be responsible, for other people's "bad life decisions".
I'm not saying this to be callous but people have their own problems and their own lives and their own struggles. I cannot even begin to understand the deep matrix of someone's life in context before they made that decision to abort at 21 weeks.
If she, the woman and potential mother, is willing to live with that decision, then so be it. I won't interfere. She has to carry that weight and burden alone. I don't. My godson doesn't. My employees don't. The rest of society doesn't.
One of the things I notice about many Pro Life people ( not all, but quite a large number) is the unshakable feeling as if the person having the abortion is somehow " Getting Away With Something Bad " Now how people want to define "Bad" for themselves is up to them, but I can assure you, across my long life, I've met and encountered many women who have had abortions and none of them have come out the other side whole. Not a single one. Nor have any of the women I knew that were molested as children. Nor any women who have had a miscarriage ( or multiples of them) Maybe some do a better job of hiding it in public or in some situations, but the carnage is there.
My Body/My Choice, to my viewpoint, exists until the infant/baby is outside the womb. I know some people will not agree and some will aggressively oppose that viewpoint, but it's not my burden, it's not my pain, it's not my choice.
Now if the Cyclons show up and blow up Caprica and Picon and Sagittarius and all the rest, and now humans are down to 80 thousand people left period, then you have a different situation. But even in that scenario, I would still push for My Body/My Choice.
Maybe the mother having the abortion won't see it as " bad life decision " OK, that's her choice too.
But here is where the rubber meets the road for me - If you make a choice, even if you regret it later, eat the pain in silence. If it's your body, your choice, your burden, then carry it alone. I don't want to hear it. Again, not to be cruel, but I have my own problems in life. Everyone has their own problems.
Where I think the best and practical argument against abortion is via tax dollars. My property taxes pay London Breed's salary. She came up with the genius idea to pay street thugs 300-500 a month NOT to shoot each other in gangland disputes in public. She's a complete and total idiot. I also don't want my tax dollars going to reinforce the "borders" in foreign countries when our own borders are a swinging gate. Because that's also happening right now. You can't scream for silence if you are taking other people's money. In any manner or methodology where tax dollars are funding abortions by proxy, then that's a legitimate gripe in my book. If it's "her burden" then she and her partner can go pay for it themselves. I'm sure saying that will start to piss some more people off too, I really don't care.
If it's your body, your choice. Then it's your problem all the way to the bone. Own it. Own all of it and everything that comes with it.
