A subject I’ve thought about broaching here, is Abortion. Its a mess, its a nasty polarizing issue, and frankly my position on it is a total fucking mess. Let’s start with what got me to decide to drop this one:
Now that’s a GREAT video and it covers a wealth of bases about viewing abortion through a Libertarian mindset. I’m of the mind that human rights should be honored, and babies, even those in the womb have rights and should not be killed for personal convenience. Also I fully believe that the idea of “Viable Birth” is constantly evolving.
That’s me over 30 years ago. Amazing that I turned into this:
It was touch and go for the first few days of my little life, but I made it.
These days 4lbs 4oz isn’t a big deal, and Ambulance Driver’s little girl was quite a bit smaller than I was.
Needless to say defining “when life begins” at anything but conception doesn’t really carry much weight with me.
So Abortion is murder…there you have it! Right?
*sigh* nope, we haven’t even started yet. As disgusting abortion is to me, I’m also a realist and a scientist and I know it doesn’t take much to kill a fetus. Moreover if done early enough its easy enough for somebody to terminate a pregnancy and CONCEAL it.
Also here in America abortions are done in clean operating rooms with surgeons in good standing attending.
When was the last time you cracked over a bottle of booze from a common brand and got a batch of bad stuff? And by “Bad Stuff” I mean “It was Poison”. Probably never. Wild Turkey couldn’t sell a bottle filled with methanol and have it not be both a national news story, and the end of Wild Turkey as a company. Yet this stuff happened all the time during the prohibition of alcohol. This stuff happens all the time in the illegal drug trade. Somebody gets a needle full of bad shit, and the modern day temperance movement clicks their tongues and proclaim that we should “Just say no to drugs”.
You see when the bootleggers and drug dealers run the show, not getting caught is the biggest priority, and lawsuits are the least of their worry as their trade will land them in prison if they do a safe and conscientious job or not.
You think this would be any different if Abortion was rightfully declared murder? Well you can’t end the procedures because its relatively easy, and easy to conceal. What WILL happen is those clean operating rooms, and skilled surgeons will dry up, and we’ll start getting abortions that are of the same quality and safeness as a dime bag of coke bought out of the trunk of a car from a gang member. Also all the black market violence that comes with that drug trade will come with black market abortions.
So there’s my thoughts on Abortion. Abortion is Murder….but prohibition of abortion is prohibition which will result in the death of many in the name of the protection of a few.
Man, that’s a shit deal, no matter HOW right it is. So Abortion IS Murder, and I’m pro choice.
Told you it was fucked up.
