{"id":367,"date":"2009-01-01T19:20:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T19:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menandabortion.net\/?p=367"},"modified":"2015-10-16T19:24:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T19:24:43","slug":"flashpoint-a-womans-right-to-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menandabortion.net\/index.php\/2009\/01\/01\/flashpoint-a-womans-right-to-choose\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashpoint! A Woman\u2019s Right To Choose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"style5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/menandabortion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/Gary_Graham.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-369\" src=\"https:\/\/menandabortion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/Gary_Graham-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Graham\" width=\"150\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/menandabortion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/Gary_Graham-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/menandabortion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/Gary_Graham.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m not a person filled with hate. I don\u2019t brew strong stomach acids when I hear\/see things I think horrendously idiotic or unjust in the news or on the street. Initially, my reaction is to laugh. The irony is simply too much, and I crack up. Generally, it\u2019s either laugh\u2026or cry. And who wants to spend the day in tears? For I would, were I to give in to that option of dealing with the utter, naked insanity in our midst on a daily basis. I\u2019m not just talking about something that \u2018isn\u2019t quite right\u2019 or\u2026 \u2018is just a tad out of whack\u2019\u2026I\u2019m talking about the United States of America in this year of 2009 being completely off its moorings and slipping into the abyss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"style5\">\u201cWhat the hell is Graham on about now?? What momentous, screeching rant is he conjuring up now; can somebody put him on a stupid TV show so he\u2019d shut up already??\u201d \u2013 Your name here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">No. I\u2019m going to say it. I\u2019m going to say what millions know in the front of their brains, and many, many more millions know in the depths of their hearts\u2026but won\u2019t allow themselves to think it, much less feel it. And believe me, I know I\u2019ll be hated for saying it, I\u2019ll be hated by people who don\u2019t know me, have never worked with me, have never golfed with me, had a drink with me, shot the shit with me. They\u2019ve never met me, don\u2019t want to meet me\u2026but they will hate me. I\u2019m going to say it anyway: Abortion is murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">Screams, bomb blasts, machine-gun rounds rip through plaster, I duck, but the copper-tip spears tear into meat, I run, the fire sears flesh, more screams, are they coming from me, or are they my head being torn from\u2026my\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">In the sixties and seventies I was a proud part of the peace generation. Long-haired hippies, rocker-lovers, lover-rockers, music festivals, drug explorations, peace not war, and there\u2019s this cute piece right next to me, I\u2019ve got a sleeping bag, would you like to get warm, and there\u2019s a little hash left, you\u2019re so pretty\u2026 Hey don\u2019t laugh, we thought we were changing the world. Free love, baby, do it if it feels good, don\u2019t look back, power to the peeps, and do your own thing. Wow, really? You mean you can be cool, have a lot of sex\u2026and save the world all at the same time? Damn this is so f*cking bitchen! Ooh, my hair\u2019s getting really good in the back\u2026 (Brown shoes\u2026 don\u2019t make it! \u2014 F.Zappa)<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">But wait \u2013 I\u2019m in college. I\u2019m on a fast track to jump into the business world. I\u2019m going to be some stick-up-the-butt loser in some establishment straight-ass job, when I really just want to party. Oops, I mean\u2026 I want to help save the world! Through drugs, sex and rock and roll. All right, we don\u2019t really have a solid business plan made up yet\u2026but we\u2019re working on it. Of course I\u2019m a Democrat! Duh!<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">End of flashback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">I have been on all sides of this issue for most of my life, and I can simply not escape the logic. That fetus a pregnant woman is carrying inside of her, regardless of the gestation stage, is a living, breathing human being. Yes, breathing \u2013 the amniotic sac forms 12 days after conception, and in the second trimester the baby is actually breathing the amniotic fluid. It\u2019s not an \u2018unviable tissue mass.\u2019 Not a wart, a mole, a skin outcropping, a boil, or a bundle of uncoordinated cells. It\u2019s not just a \u2018fetus\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">It\u2019s a baby. Not fully developed, true. Like an infant is not a fully developed and mature adult. But it\u2019s a baby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">And the first time I got a girl pregnant, I would have wrestled you to the ground for saying that. How f*cking dare you? You don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about! You piece of crap, you don\u2019t know!<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">Well I do know. And I stand condemned. I\u2019ve paid for three of them and was responsible for probably several more, I\u2019m not really sure. But it breaks my heart. Because I\u2019ve been convicted in my soul. It took years after the fact, but I was shown the Truth. And not to get mumbo-jumbo, oogly-boogly on you, but it was a spiritual awakening that did it. It happened unexpectedly, and it threw me to my knees in sudden tearful epiphany of what it meant for a man to be with a woman, what sex was really designed for by our Creator and\u2026 what abortion is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">And up until that point, I was completely \u2018Pro-Choice\u2019. I had bought the whole \u2018women\u2019s rights\u2019 thing, completely agreed with \u2018the constitutional right of a woman\u2019s freedom to choose\u2019\u2026and I was just fine with that. Sure took the pressure off of me, a guy, interested in sex who had been raised in the era of, \u201cHey, you get a girl pregnant, you marry her!\u201d But times had changed. Now abortions could be had legally if a doctor determined the life of the mother was in danger. Girls in college told me what a joke that was. They\u2019d go in to see a doctor, tell him they\u2019re pregnant, and the conversation went like this:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">Doctor: \u201cYou\u2019re feeling suicidal?\u201d (hint hint, wink nudge.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">Girl: \u201cOh. Yeah\u2026 suicidal. I\u2019m feeling suicidal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">Doctor: \u201cAll right, then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">Abortion as a method of birth control became the norm. I knew a few girls who had had as many as five of them by the time they were twenty-five. And they seemed fine on it\u2026mostly because everyone around them was telling them that they should feel fine about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">So this abortion thing was pretty damn convenient for a guy. And for a time, I was quite the Lothario. I kept a roster of seven girlfriends. Why seven? I don\u2019t know\u2026maybe Lucky Number 7 (yeah maybe)\u2026or seven days in a week (more likely). But I would meet someone new, and I would simply go through my list\u2026and kick one girl off. I would simply stop calling her. And to my great shame\u2026this was my chosen method to \u2018decathect.\u2019 In retrospect, I wish I\u2019d had the balls of utter honesty in my early relationships; but I was a drug-addled, post college idiot and that was the best I could muster. This was my m.o. and I knew I wasn\u2019t alone\u2026not by a long shot. We were proud products of the Love Generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">Jump forward thirty years and Nancy Pelosi tells us yesterday that \u2018family planning\u2019 is now a fiscal responsibility to \u2018reduce costs.\u2019\u00a0Her defenders will say that NO, she\u2019s talking about condoms and sex education. But anyone with a mind who\u2019s been around for a while knows that \u2018family planning\u2019 is code for abortion. She is asking for 200 million dollars for Family Planning Services to \u2018expand the economy.\u2019 These are taxpayer dollars, dontcha know. Your money. She says states are in terrible fiscal crisis and it\u2019s \u2018part of what we do for childrens\u2019 health and education\u2019\u2026\u201d I\u2019m trying to figure out how ripping an unborn child from it\u2019s womb is aiding in it\u2019s health or education, but maybe I\u2019m missing something here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">I\u2019ve heard it argued that a fetus is not a baby because it could not survive outside the womb on its own. But what about three-day old baby? Or even a two week old baby? If you set it down on the floor and leave it alone\u2026will it survive on its own? Or will it die? So what\u2019s the cut-off for determining whether it\u2019s a baby or not?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">It really comes down to this: when does life begin? When is it a baby? At the point of conception? First trimester? Third? At the point of actual delivery? When the umbilical cord is cut? Two weeks afterward? When?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">I\u2019m telling you, once you draw that line and say this is the moment it\u2019s a human being\u2026you\u2019ve lost the argument. Because it\u2019s arbitrary. On this date it\u2019s a baby, but yesterday it was just a bunch of cells\u2026this blob of a nothing and you can do anything you want with it, it\u2019s okay. Babies have been born premature in the second trimester and lived. Happens all the time. So please, somebody tell me how is taking a baby and delivering all but the head, then plunging a tube into its skull and sucking the brains out\u2026how is that not murder? This is what happens in partial-birth abortions, and unfortunately, this happens all the time, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">And we as a nation\u2026as a people\u2026are all right with this?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">I understand the hate that is leveled at someone like me who reminds people of this. To contemplate the reality is daunting. The act is horrendous and made more tragic when you consider the numbers of babies that are being disposed of every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">Our willingness to tolerate such a holocaust says volumes of how our entire culture has been coarsened. How life itself has been cheapened. We are told to have sex any time we feel the urge. Condoms are handed out in grade schools. Promiscuity is not only condoned, it\u2019s tacitly encouraged. Illegitimacy has enslaved an entire underclass of our citizens, relegating them to government assistance for a lifetime, bankrupting cities, and holding an entire subculture down in dependent despair. But if you should get pregnant and it\u2019s just not a \u2018convenient\u2019 time for you, don\u2019t worry, there are Family Planning Services, funded, thanks to the likes of Nancy Pelosi, by your tax dollars. That inconvenient fetus can be surgically ripped from its uterine moorings, ground up and tossed into the trash like so much garbage. Problem solved, and the mother can resume her egocentric lifestyle. But the scars on that woman\u2019s soul will never quite heal. I\u2019m a man, but I\u2019ve got them on mine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">I\u2019ve heard from liberals the following quote: \u201cWe want abortion to be legal\u2026but rare.\u201d And I ask, Why rare? What\u2019s wrong with abortion, that you think it should be a rare occurrence? I\u2019ve had moles removed from my skin. Doctors don\u2019t tell us that a mole removal should be rare. So what\u2019s with this \u2018rare\u2019 business? Or is it a tacit agreement that abortion\u2026is plain wrong?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">And in the double-standard department\u2026 Will somebody tell me how it is that Scott Peterson gets convicted of a double homicide \u2013 his wife, and his unborn son \u2013 and yet it\u2019s not murder if a doctor does basically the same thing in a clinic? Explain it to me; why is it murder in the one case, and totally acceptable in the other? You tell me, \u201cHEY! It\u2019s my body, I\u2019ve got the right to do whatever I want with my body!!\u201d Well, no you don\u2019t. You don\u2019t have the legal right to prostitute yourself (Nevada excepted). You don\u2019t have a right to pick up an axe and lop off your boyfriend\u2019s head if he gives you lip. You don\u2019t have the right to murder. And your anger will bring you back to the its-not-a-baby, it\u2019s-my-body mobius.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">Illogic without end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">Try this exercise: Every time you hear someone use the phrase \u201c\u2026a woman\u2019s right to choose\u2026\u201d mentally complete the phrase with the following words \u2013 \u201c\u2026to kill her baby.\u201d That\u2019s what the argument\u2019s about. A woman\u2019s right to kill her baby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">In the extreme cases of incest\u2026rape\u2026severe birth defects. Hey, I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t have all the answers. That\u2019s a tough one. But there has got to be a better way than abortion. Adoption comes to mind. With all the thousands of couples out there unable to make a baby\u2026doesn\u2019t it seem the right thing to do\u2026to give birth and give the unwanted baby up for adoption into a loving family?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">Just a thought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">I saw my daughter\u2019s ultrasound when she was at four weeks. All I saw was this little pulsating cylinder about the size of my little fingernail. Each little vibration was a heartbeat. Yes, a heart barely formed; cells still differentiating into form and function\u2026but her little heart was just wailing away. I burst into tears. And I realized\u2026 I was beholding an utter miracle. The miracle of life. And I also realized that from the very first merger of cell into cell, and the first divisions\u2026that the whole miracle of life was from that point on struggling against all odds to become a fully-realised human being.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">I don\u2019t mean to preach. I\u2019m just telling you what I have come to know, and that I know that I know. The unborn fetus is a baby in development\u2026and to end that life prematurely is to murder that life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">I truly wish that I had had this conviction way back when\u2026when I was only concerned about my selfish convenience of the day. But I didn\u2019t want to know, I didn\u2019t want to think about it. It was inconvenient to think about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">How ironic that the \u2018Love\u2019 Generation should spawn such a culturally accepted abomination as abortion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style5\" align=\"left\">May God have mercy on us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not a person filled with hate. I don\u2019t brew strong stomach acids when I hear\/see things I think horrendously idiotic or unjust in the news or on the street. Initially, my reaction is to laugh. The irony is simply too much, and I crack up. 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