I've always been pro-choice -- for the baby. The baby
is the one who should get to choose.
The fact of the
matter is: Abortion is the torture murder of an unborn
child.
Protesters from the Pro-Life Action League holding
"Baby Malachi" signs outside the American Medical
Association
convention in downtown Chicago on June 15, 2009.
Photo by Sam Scheidler of Pro-Life Action League.
The reason that abortion is legal in this
country is that unborn children don't vote, and they
don't make campaign contributions, so they don't have
the political clout to get their safety protected.
That's the same reason why there in no law
requiring seat belts on school buses in Illinois and
most other states.
Another reason why abortion remains legal is that the
murder is committed in secret. Nobody is allowed to see
the baby writhing in excruciating, searing pain and
mind-blowing agony during the heinous act. Nobody hears
its desperate, silent screams.
Until unborn children do have political clout, I will
be the babies' clout, amongst a handful of other
atheists, and a whole lot of conservative religious
people, too.
This is a completely separate question from whether
women should have the right to choose what goes on in
their bodies.
The last thing that women need is for a
group of men to make women's decisions for them, so I
don't do that and I don't support laws that would do
that.
Then, what's the solution?
Sex education, from a very early age, to prevent
unplanned pregnancies to the greatest extent possible.
We need to teach girls, starting early in their
lives, Rob Sherman's Top Three Rules regarding sex:
Rule Number 1: Boys lie to get what they want when
it comes to sex. They'll say anything -- ANYTHING! --
to get laid. Don't believe a word of it.
Rule Number 2: Keep your knees together! Under no
circumstances should you allow a boy to get between your
legs unless you are willing to become pregnant with his
baby or are on RELIABLE birth control.
Rule Number 3: Repeat after me: "No, No, No, No,
NO!" Don't explain it. Don't justify it. Don't debate
it with him, because he may be able to easily out-debate
you. Don't provide him, or his thing, with any wiggle
room. The answer is, "No," and that's it.
OK, then, when?
From an early age, I repeatedly told my daughter,
Dawn, who is now 16, the following:
At some point, either in middle school, high school,
college or later, some boy is going to put pressure on
you to have sex with him. Here's what you should tell
him:
If you want to have sex with me, you must do four
things:
"First, you have to get a good EDUCATION.
"Second, you have to get a good JOB.
"Third, you have to promise to LOVE ME, FOREVER.
"Fourth, you have to MARRY ME.
"Then you can have sex with me, but if you ever hit
me, I will never have sex with you again. EVER!"
So far, Dawn hasn't gotten pregnant, so the plan
seems to be working. As far as I know...
The
Pro Life Action
League is currently conducting it's annual Face
the Truth public education tour. PLAL is based in
Chicago, and they are the world leader in providing
information to the community on the tragedy, the
catastrophe, of abortion.
