Aborting Our Future.

I’ve been advised not to write about abortion because it’s a very emotional issue on all sides. Before reading this let me tell you that I am strongly anti-abortion. If this offends you may want to move on to the funnies or want ads. If not, please follow this chronicle of the war on our future, the war on our young.


Planned Parenthood is all over the news, so you undoubtedly know what has been going on lately. A group has filmed executives of that organization apparently negotiating to sell “fetal tissue”. Selling this tissue is illegal.

If you had the stomach to watch any of the videos you may agree with me when I say the films were horrifying. These people are monsters. I can’t even fathom the inhumanity these people wallow in every day.

As a result of the apparent transgression of Planned Parenthood lots of people are up in arms. Certain Congressmen and women are investigating the outfit, and others are trying to take away their federal money.

The Department of Justice is investigating the people that made the films to determine if they can be prosecuted for revealing an inconvenient truth. I’m not surprised that they are pushing against the truth to save a political agenda I don’t want to understand.

I’ve found that Planned Parenthood does deal in abortions. They say that they don’t sell tissue; they just recover their costs for processing, and perhaps shipping and handling. Their press releases say that abortion is only a small part of their business, which is about 3%. It doesn’t sound as severe if you phrase it that way, but if you think about it, it’s still severe. If I’m the model citizen 97% of the time but rob banks 3% of the time, I still belong in jail. If I’m the perfect husband except for 3% of the time I will still have a lot to answer for and home will be a chilly place indeed. Saying Planned Parenthood is involved in abortion only 3% of the time is like saying the Nazis only spent 3% of their time exterminating Jews. It’s not a valid argument.

The best thing about this is it brings the abortion debate back to the forefront. Legal abortions have been available in this country since 1973, and in that time we’ve killed about 56 millions babies. Fifty six million lives are too many for me to fully understand. That’s twice the population of Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri combined.

We don’t talk about these abortions as lost lives. We manipulate the language to make abortion prettier. We call it “women’s health”.
Instead of talking about killing babies we talk about terminating pregnancies and dealing with fetal tissue. This technique is the same one we use to justify killing adults. To be able to kill, we have to dehumanize the enemy. During the early settlement of this continent, Puritan leaders rationalized that Indians were children of the devil, so they could be killed without remorse. Like genocide, we separate ourselves from the subject of the termination to soften the implications of what we’ve done.

You’ll know that this is true if you notice the news reports when a pregnant woman is murdered. The criminal is accused of murdering the woman and her unborn child. It’s never reported that he eliminated fetal tissue. Humanizing the unborn baby serves the purpose of those involved just like dehumanizing serves other interests.

I believe we’re hard-wired to have strong affection for and a strong need to protect infants. It makes sense that to survive as a species we have to love our young. This makes the fetal tissue language necessary.

Almost anyone that can see a life form that closely resembles a baby can’t bear to see it harmed. If I were wrong on this point then deceased infants would appear on weekly TV crime shows along with the gory remains of adults. That is not done because it’s too horrible to see. That is, unless you are without normal human feelings.

I could go on and on about abortion being a war on minorities or that we are aborting our own futures with every procedure that stops a beating heart. Perhaps that is a discussion for another time. For now, I’m just glad that so many are talking about this. I hope we stop this war on babies. They are not our enemy.