First up is some wannabe actress and full time abortion counselor Emily Letts. Ms. Letts thought it would be a good idea to film herself having her own abortion which, when one considers that she's a former actress, is only natural. For those who missed it, here's her fifteen minutes of fame:
Aside from the imbecilic stupidity of not using contraception despite working as an abortion counselor, Ms. Letts decides that she's going to film her own abortion because there are no positive films about abortion available for public consumption. Apparently, she feels that her own video is positive. She's more caught up in the aura of her video than the implications of her actions, aside from those that cast her as some sort of champion of abortion rights. At one point, she even says that she was awed by the fact that she can create life. She gave an interview wherein she said that her sonogram would be the first thing she'd retrieve were there a fire in her dwelling. By implication, despite the fact that she refers to her baby as potential life, she implicitly admits that it was a life she was terminating.
The other breathlessly callous comment came from the irrepressible Sarah Silverman. It's so stultifying I'm just going to provide the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHyV7D-jXKA
Ms. Silverman bravely, as Bill Maher chided her, admitted that she'd never had an abortion and wasn't sure she ever would, but still stood by women and their right to have an abortion. She went on to explain her vegetarianism and referred to fetuses as nothing more than goo.
Again, I could argue the abortion debate all day long, never be persuaded to change my opinion and at the same time never raise my voice. If any dissenters out there want to throw the usual arguments at me about rape and imperfect babies, know this: One of our sisters became pregnant by virtue of a date rape and the other sister had a baby born with osteogenesis imperfecta. Both the nephew and the niece have enriched our lives, and we came together as a family to help our sisters raise their children. It wasn't always easy, and it was a challenge beyond our imagining, but it got done. So don't lob those arguments at me because they'll fall on deaf ears.
Instead, I return to my bottom line argument: What do these women think is growing inside them? A penny? A tree? A car part? It can be one thing and one thing only: A human life. To callously and cavalierly view the termination of a human life similarly to the removal of a bunion or as some annoying outpatient procedure is galling. For a woman to refer to her potential baby as goo or the pregnant woman to refer to her fetus as a potential life is appalling. Have women -- feminists, really -- become so desensitized and misinformed that they believe this line of reasoning? It's beyond sickening.
One other argument is never answered by the pro-death side: If a woman should have the right to make choices about her own body, shouldn't that child have a similar right? Given the fact that the woman and the child have somewhat competing interests, it would seem that a guardian ad litem might be in order. And what of the father's input? Since he had a share of creating that life, and will most certainly be responsible financially for the life should it be born, why does he not have any say in that child's existence?
I'm saddened that this issue continues to confuse some people. They'd do well to listen to the former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor who, in her dissent in City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc., suggested that the viability argument clung to by abortionists was on a collision course with technology. It is not inconceivable that with technological advances, the point of viability may well be conception itself. At that point, the arguments that it is only potential life or goo would no longer be viable themselves.
And then, much like blacks weren't regarded as whole persons earlier in this country's history, we'd have a line of demarcation between fetuses that weren't considered human lives and those that are now considered human lives.
If that were to happen, I wonder if we'd look back at history and mourn all those babies who were denied life by selfishness and sophistry.
(c) 2014 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles
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