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Vitriol from Both Sides (or A Touch of the Abortion Dilemma)
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Vitriol from Both Sides (or A Touch of the Abortion Dilemma) While catching up on the latest news regarding the recent terrorists in France (does anyone say this when asked whatcha been upta?), I read a comment by someone I suspect was well meaning in her comparison but who made me question her facts. She said that the terrorist attack on the cartoonists in France was similar to the killing of abortion doctors, in as much as both were falsely attaching religious reasons for killing people. It made me think. I hadn't heard of an abortion doctor killed in years. The research I made into the topic (while perfunctory, online through a search engine) showed the last abortion doctor murdered by a pro-life affiliated (as we are to suspect due to the actions) individual was in 2009. The target was not, as one might initially suspect, a typical doctor performing these procedures. This doctor was one of the few remaining doctors who specialized in late term abortions. Not to say that certain life is more of value than others, but late term abortions can result in the terminations of fetuses that could have survived being born at the time of the procedure. This is where the idea of abortions will stick in the throats of the less than firmly in the woman's choice regardless theater in this particular war. If the baby could have lived, why not let it? And why not a threshold for termination that allows for only those fetuses that could not survive, except in cases of dire medical necessity? Roe v. Wade was the first legislation to put these limits on late term abortions. But not everyone sees that. But the people who see a baby at the time of conception will most definitively see these abortions as murder, and the doctors who perform them as mass murderers. But murder is against the Christian principles of the groups that called the murder of an abortion doctor a hero. That much can't be argued. Though killing someone who purposefully kills babies might be seen as a rationale, it certainly doesn't trump a commandment. And the pro-choice advocates, when the murder was caught, did they advocate mercy? Understood. They weren't proclaiming to be Christians or bound by anyone's commandments. They could demand blood and attempt to invalidate the arguments of their adversaries on the other side of the argument by claiming hate crimes. The remaining doctor who specialized in late term abortions (imagine waking up in the morning with that being your sole goal in life?) claimed that the killing of doctors such as himself was political assassination, the result of hate speech and incitement to violence. Republicans may not be fascists, but they are tools to the fascists. He went on to name three prominent ministers and one blow-heart of a political commentator (not Limbug, though he is my favorite to lambaste). Being of the opinion that life has value (the argument a pro-life individual would propose) is seen as a hatred of freedom (the right to choose as a pro-choice individual would counter). The article went into the back-story of the remaining late term abortion specialist. Before he had medical school, he became vehemently anti-Christian. He wrote about how, to hear the service, you need to pay. A very negative experience in a certain church predisposed the doctor towards a loathing towards Christians. The abortion doctor in question wasn't pleasant during the interview with Esquire magazine, but it was in 2009 and a good friend and colleague of his had just been murdered. His paper comparing humanity to a cancer wasn't. The man wasn't pleasant as a rule, and tolerance was what other people should have. All of that said, one might wonder how I would suggest that late-term abortions be performed if not by individual doctors who specialize in the procedures. The matter, one could imagine, could be simplified by assuring that the procedures are performed as any other outpatient surgical procedure is performed. Hospitals should have surgeons on staff to perform the procedures to receive credentials. Abortions are not cosmetic procedures, after all. They do this in Canada. But they are also much more clinical about it. The abortion doctor in question apparently has a kinder, gentler procedure involving seaweed. Here, some might balk at the idea. What if a doctor is morally opposed to terminating a fetus? Most would not have that issue, but those who did could avoid surgical practices at hospitals. The idea that a woman should travel to Colorado to end a pregnancy where the fetus has no brain (though perfectly acceptable in a political commentator from either side of the aisle, not an ideal scenario) is ludicrous. And at what stage could this fetal abnormality be determined? How soon could you be certain that you were aborting a political commentator? For my part, I'll stand up for a woman's right to have an abortion, even a late-term abortion, until she no longer has that right. I won't sign up as a pro-choice advocate because people should be responsible in their reproductive choices, starting with using protective measures that may prevent the spread of disease as well as unwanted pregnancies. But who wants to be unwanted? I won't sign up as a pro-life advocate either. Don't tell my dad. (Don't worry. He isn't on here.  )
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