Picture these three scenarios:
1. A pregnant woman is on her way to an ultrasound when her car is struck by a drunk driver. She and her unborn child are killed in the accident, the police rule it double vehicular homicide and the offender is to go to prison for it.
2. A pregnant woman decides she doesn't want her unborn child, she goes to an abortion clinic. They give her the information they are required to and in the end she still decides to go through with it, nobody does/can do anything about it.
3. A pregnant woman is on her way to get and abortion and is struck by a drunk driver. Her unborn child is killed.
What happens in the last scenario? Do they say "Well, since she decided she didn't want the child it's not considered a living being and you get off without a homicide charge." ? When is a fetus considered a child in the eyes of the law? Only when the mother decides it is?
Biologically life begins at conception. When an egg is fertilized it becomes a zygote and the cells begin to multiply. Not only do they multiply, but they differentiate, some become cells for the heart, or the skin, or the brain, etc. At this point, this baby is alive.
Yet a mother can choose to dispose of it because it's "their body" No. It is not just their body anymore. Inside of them is a second, completely separate body. A separate being, a separate mind. A potential. Something that could be someone big. Someone who has the potential to come into this world and make a huge difference someday.
What if Einstein's mother had gotten an abortion? Or Martin Luther King Jr? Or Abraham Lincoln? Or Mother Teresa? Or Gandhi? Or Benjamin Franklin?
We give this choice to women to change the future of this world. And often times, it's for their own selfish desires. They don't want a child, they got pregnant too young, they don't want the damage done to their body, etc.
So prevent it before hand, go on birth control. Use a condom. Do both! The chances of getting pregnant are extremely slim with either of these, and practically nothing with both. If you are that worried about having a child then do something about it before you conceive one.
Feminists are in an uproar. Trying to prove some point that women deserve the choice to choose, trying to say men are against them and that people who are anti-abortion are anti-women's rights. Stop. Please stop. Because if men could have children, people who are against abortion wouldn't want men to get them either.
Hobby Lobby is still covering 16 forms of birth control under their health care, isn't that enough? Why should anyone have to pay for you to kill a child. No matter how you "look at it" science wins out, after conception it is a living thing. You have to be completely self absorbed to think that someone should pay to kill your child for you.
I've seen comments and tweets about Hobby Lobby covering Viagra and Vasectomies and how that is "completely unfair." No it's not. That has absolutely everything to do with the man in question and in no way affects another living being. And they never said they wouldn't cover a woman getting her tubes tied or female hormone enhancing drugs. Those would be the equivalents, abortion and morning after pills are not even close to the same thing as Viagra or a vasectomy.
I'm a scientific person, not a religious one. And science makes this wrong as much as any religion does.
Go ahead and do what you will as long as it's legal (even if it shouldn't be) but do NOT criticize me or anyone else for refusing to pay for your decision.
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