Worshipping at the Altar of Abortion

Abortion is a really ugly sounding word, isn't it- as if the word origin was planned to sound gross? But the worst of it is that it seems to be an issue that women use as a pseudo-religion. The "right to abortion". The fact is that it is the law of the land- though it should be the right of the state to decide, but that's another issue. The fact is that abortion is, under most circumstances, legal. The fact is that if "abortion rights" were to be truly threatened, the demonstrations by women would be so vast (I assume) and the fall out so punitive to politicians, that no one will ever attempt to over turn Roe V Wade. (Never mind that Ms Roe has regretted that decision with all her heart.)

The current problem with the religion of "abortion rights" is that obfuscates all other issues. It becomes the sole decision determinant at the voting booth. It becomes the issue that makes other women distrust and dislike other women. It becomes the "if we lose the right to abortion then we will be pregnant and in the kitchen again" issue. SO if you are a female candidate who does NOT believe abortion is a good thing, but you have left the kitchen anyway, then the fact that you are an achiever is lost. The fact that you may have, say, been a mayor, governor, and are now a VP candidate- that all becomes of no value. Because you do not worship at the altar of abortion. And for THAT, you are labeled anti-woman, For THAT, you are labeled anti-female. Of course, the one thing you ARE is "pro-life". In the religion of the Church of the Holy Uterus, you are not entitled to believe that those cells are human OR alive. You must learn to hate the women who struggle with the issue of abortion. On the one hand, it isn't fair that women have born the responsibility for the life of the unborn child. That's the negative view that some people have, but to some women that idea would seem totally backwards. But that is the way it has always been and will always be. I don't know a woman who has ever bragged about her abortion(s). I have very few friends who will admit that they have had one. So, despite the screaming for the rights, it is obvious that it was deeply painful, and somewhat shameful for a thinking, loving, caring woman to have an abortion. But whether abortion is right or wrong is not the issue. The issue is one of women who believe that an embryo is merely uterine content versus woman who feel that an embryo is a human in development. With the advent of ultrasonography, we know that the human embryo is an explosion of growing cells following an innate blueprint unique to a humam being. If we take the DNA of the zygote, it is DNA that is unique to that zygote- not another one has or ever will have that particular genetic code. If it is not human, then WE are not human.

Keep in mind that I am not telling any woman that she cannot have an abortion. I won't rally in the street to be the voice of your child. It isn't my conscience that would hurt- and maybe the women who have abortions don't actually hurt anyway. I don't blame them for what they do, and I don't seek to change laws that would be pointless to change. It doesn't mean that I believe in abortion- or that I wouldn't understand an abortion if circumstances were dire. But I personally don't approve of it as a method of birth control. I don't approve of it because it would hurt me far worse to know I could do that to my own unborn child. And I couldn't qualify it by gestational age. Or by the status of the father in my life. I couldn't. I have had a child that was a "surprise". I had many choices. How it turned out is my story, but it is important for anyone who reads this to know that I HAD a choice, and the choice I made was to have my child. Why? Because whatever it is inside of me that makes me respect the right of that human to live made me, through great stress, give my child his chance. He is grown and happy and we have a bond that cannot be broken.

This isn't about whether or not someone has that inner voice that tells them it would not be an option to take their unknown child's life. This is about what the argument of abortion rights does to the future of WOMEN in politics. There should be NO Church of the Holy Uterus- or Altar of Abortion Rights. Women need to respect ONE another- a HUGE order since most women are just always SURE they are right. I cannot understand how the National Organization for Women- which has become truly the Holy Grail for the CHU members- can say a women who believes in the value of a human embryo is not competent to hold public office- as if she would be the uterine thief and nothing else. As if only NOW decides how woman can feel. If we, as women, supported women with unplanned pregnancies- if we welcomed their children, helped them find safe and loving homes for the children they cannot keep, didn't deride them or call them names, supported birth control for OUR daughters, then we would have made real progress. But as long as the CHU and NOW say that a woman cannot be president unless she believes in abortion as birth control- well, those aren't my kind of women. At all.

And remember - it is the law of the land now. It isn't an issue. But it is the "boogah boogah" for liberals to scare women. If Reagan and Bush didn't get into it, then I would think that though it would sadden her, Sarah Palin won't touch it either.