An Argument Against Abortion

When I hear anyone (especially Christians) defend the legality of abortions in America (or anywhere else) I want to puke. We have this idea in America that even though the vast majority of us don't think abortion is right, it's not really our place to tell someone else they can't have one (and by "have one" I really mean kill their baby). This is a ridiculously weak argument though. The vast majority of Americans believe raping their neighbor is wrong and the state should act by throwing rapists in jail. We all made a moral judgement about rape and realize rape deserves jail time. Abortion is no different. If we shouldn't make abortion illegal because other people might not think it's wrong, then murder, rape, theft, etc should not be illegal. We should have no moral laws.

I also hear the argument that making abortions illegal would cause many women to die in "back-alley" abortions done by non-professionals. Sure, that would happen. But since abortion was legalized in 1973 over 50 million American citizens have been slaughtered before they were even allowed to leave their mothers' wombs. That's over 5 times the amount of people killed in the Holocaust. As I recall, we don't take the Holocaust lightly. Neither should we take abortion lightly.

Another argument is that abortions don't kill living human beings; humans aren't alive and viable until they exit the womb. The problem with this is that children have been born exceedingly early and have not immediately died. There is no particular date that scientists can set as the ALIVE moment. We know that beginning at conception new cells are created and compounded. Thus, life begins at conception.

The idea that children in the womb are not viable is also a terrible argument. By viable I mean that they could live without help from the womb. In that case, yes, unbirthed babies are not viable. But then again, neither are birthed babies. Leave any baby alone without supervision for a few days and it will starve to death (or freeze, etc). A two year old cannot take care of itself. It is certainly not "viable". Beyond the spectrum of babies, some severely disabled people are not "viable". Some mentally and physically handicapped people are unable to feed themselves, clothe themselves, or find shelter. Without outside help, these disabled people would certainly die quickly. Yet, do we consider these people to not be alive because they are not "viable".

Anyway you look at it, abortion is cruel, immoral, and disgusting. And anyone who supports killing babies should be ashamed and change their ways. Just 150 years ago slavery was widely accepted as a normal practice. Most in the South enjoyed the use of it and many in the North didn't think it was their place to stop the practice. Yet looking back on it, we would be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn't think slavery was despicable. Hopefully it won't take 150 years and hundreds of millions of babies to come to the same conclusion about abortion.