Cynthia Buchan (Edison) Abortion (Response to Kurtis Mullaney)

Its hard sometimes for myself to determine when it is exactly that a “fusion of cells” can or should be considered a human being. Is it at the time of conception? Is it at the moment of brain activity which mind you comes after conception? Is it a state of consciousness that the fetus reaches? Like the comment said about this post; a human being is a being that is aware of itself and the enviornment around them. Does a fetus have this ability be aware of its enviornment (the womb) or itself while still in the whomb; or is it taught this after birth? Is it subconscience within the mind once the brain waves start? I’ve always thought that these are all questions for God! Not things that we can answer because we are not the ones who created the human race; according to your typical Christian befliefs anyway. Without all these questions being answered, how are we supposed to know or even take the liberty of making the assumption that we know that abortion is or isn’t murder? It’s strictly opinion at this point and has been for many years. Think of it this way, it might have you think again about the whole debate? Why, if abortion or the “act” of taking the life of a fetus within  the womb is wrong, then do women have miscarriages? If we want to talk about the spiritual aspects of this phenomenon then my question is “why does God allow this to happen, why does he allow so many other horrible things to happen?”. If the reasoning behind abortion being so horrible and “against religion” is because God and/or whatever your religious beliefs are tell you that it is wrong than why does it still occur. Does this mean that God or whomever are allowing it to happen?

I had a g/f of mine that ended up in a situation such as unplanned pregnancy. She had a choice to make that most would not even dare consider as an option. Taking into consideration her age, goals, and religious beliefs, there were options; thanks to Roe v. Wade. Her goals were to make something out of herself, go into the military, graduate from college, have a very deserving career! Her thought was that none of these things would be able to occur if she were to continue the preganacy, because the stipulation was that “If you get pregnant at a young age there is no way you’ll make anything of yourself, look at those who got pregnant had the baby and went nowhere with their lives!” This type of stipulation came from her parents believe it or not. The warning she got when they found out that she was sexually active was “Be careful, you don’t want to ruin your life!” It’s been many years since her final decision took place in that icy cold clinic. I am still friends with her because she is a wonderful person that just so happen to get caught in an unlikely situation. Her beliefs were like many of those similar to pro-lifers, though she was scared and very young. When in a situation like hers with the factors of age and fear rational decisions are hard to come by she is in a way thankful that she had the “freedom” to make that decision for herself and that the government of her country wasn’t preventing her from taking her own life into her own hands.
She will occasionally bring it up just to vent and I can tell that it’s more than on occasion that she’s really truly thinking and reliving what she’s done. I can see it in her eyes that she feels the pain of her decision everyday. She looked over at me one day while we were on the beach sunbathing and said “you know, if I hadn’t done what I did I bet you I wouldn’t be out here sunbathing and living life at my own age. Could you imagine me having a 4 year old right now to take care of?!?! I wonder if it was a boy or a girl? What would the name have been?” The emotional damage is permanent but such a young innocent little girl isn’t going to realize that until it’s too late, just like the girls that give up their virginity and end up regreting it later, we don’t realize the pain and damage we are all doing to ourselves and to the ones we love around us. They are the ones (like me watching her do what she’s done) that have to sit back, give their two sence when they think they should but witness the mistakes, vulnerability, and pain their loved one places upon themselves.

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