GaryK wrote:RZehr wrote:Here’s a thought experiment. If I believe all abortion is murder, why is this law worse than the previous law?
If abortion is the same as murder, if life begins at conception, why is there an increase in wickedness from killing at 1 week vs 42 weeks vs after birth?
There probably is no difference. I think one thing that may make this seem so shocking is that many states have been trying to implement laws that go the other way in order to get as close to outlawing abortion as possible.
Looking at the bigger picture however, a question arises:
is it unreasonable to believe that the next step may be a push to legalize outside the womb killing of unwanted babies and if so, is there a convenient stopping place after that?
This is a reality, thankfully, not seen in widespread news. It was discussed a bit on MD.
If i recall, some call it,
“post-birth abortion.” (no. it could not be more grisly.)
There have been some cases in Europe.
i’m foggy on details. Possibly, within the baby’s first year after birth??
Another related thought on this.
Each year, there are isolated instances of (usually young mothers) who kill their newborns.
Wow. Do these young women get the HARSH treatment in social media. Sheer hatred, no punishment too great.
i grieve for the infants.
i also grieve for the mothers. their raging hormones. possible mental illness. certainly, huge social problems. terror. anxiety. desperation.
at the moment of conception, the mother’s body+mind are set on a certain course to create new life. the science of it is incredible. a molecular explosion of life. at conception.
this is no small matter. science reveals a lot, but evermore is yet to be learned.
babies do not just appear out of the blue!
the design, when working correctly, prepares the woman for motherhood, both during gestation, and following birth. hormones affect women mentally and physically.
The world wants to ignore all this.
It purports pregnancy as just some inconvenience that can be prevented or undone, at will, with no ramifications. This is convenient for what they are selling, both conception prevention, and, ending “POC / products of conception” AKA, premeditated for-profit destruction of human life.
sometimes, hormones “get it wrong” and women can be set on a bad path to depression, even psychosis. infants, children, sometimes are killed as a result. their mothers routinely go to prison.
My bugaboo.
i would like to see a
MORATORIUM placed on these tragic cases until it becomes settled about what to do about FOR PROFIT CORPORATE ABORTION.
In my mind, how can the state legalize and fund FOR PROFIT corporate premeditated murder, while demonizing the odd exceptions of undeniably (insane, or temporarily insane) individual cases, that have nothing to do with profit?
Historically, in murder cases, the courts look for intent.
They look for insanity. They look for profit. If someone kills “in a fit of rage,” this is judged much less harshly than paying for a hitman, or showing deliberate premeditation and planning.
Outside of abortion, premeditated murder, esp FOR PROFIT murder, are judged as particularly heinous crimes. Yet, where is a more vulnerable, defenseless victim, than an aborted victim?
As it is, consider how these few young women must feel in prison, other women asking, “why didn’t you get an abortion?!” .. i have not experienced this, but, how would this not happen?
i cannot accept punishing these teens/children/women like this - while knowing the rich rewards and public respect medical professionals enjoy, for doing the very same thing (only far worse).
Yes. In an imaginary world that bothers to think, there is much to think about.
