To continue the discussion that came to the present author as a result of doing research for his Trojan Horse in the Belly of the Beast Trilogy, every day, we are bombarded with scenes of murder and mistreatment of women and children in the entertainment and news media until we have become desensitized to the gravity of what is being inserted into our minds. In an extraordinary extension of that desensitization, a significant majority of Americans and other members of Western Civilization have come to accept the wholesale massacre of innocent human beings as being politically correct, as important “women’s rights” and as acceptable choices—the pro-choice movement. This blog post is written to convey what the author attempted to do in his Trojan Horse Trilogy regarding FGM as it pertains to abortion—the horrific truth from which we turn our eyes and accept the pablum of “a woman’s choice”. In truth, the mortality rate in abortion is at least 50%–one of the two human beings in the pregnancy dies.
The author is indebted to a young girl living in his community for her comprehensive and insightful dissertation written as an assignment for her high school—The American Heritage School. The facts and figures regarding abortion speak for themselves, all political correctness and fatuous excuses aside.
Worldwide, 55 million unborn children are killed every year. Of those, more than 150,000 unborn children are killed every day; over 6,000 are killed every hour; and more than 100 every minute. And that grim set of statistics neglects the incidence of unreported abortions.
Various anti-abortion laws were in place in every state of the American union since at least 1900. Abortion was outright prohibited in thirty states and legal only under certain circumstances—including pregnancies resulting from rape, incest, and date drug-rape drug in 20 states. The 1973 United States Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade invalidated all of these laws in one fell swoop, and launched a slaughter unprecedented in the United States and eventually the world. This is the result: In America, one baby is killed by abortion every 26 seconds; 137 every hour; 3,304 every day; 23,196 every week; 100,516 every month, 1,206,192 every year. Mind you, that is in the one country—the United States of America—alone. In Russia in 1957, there were 3,407, 398 abortions reported. By 2012, that number fell to only 1,070, 980 as a result of the availability of better contraception. In the United States in the year 2000 alone, more children died from abortion than all of the Americans who died in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the War in Vietnam, and both Gulf Wars combined—55,772,015 abortions. The numbers are so staggering that we have lost sight of the fact that we are speaking of nearly 56 million people. As disturbing as it may seem, we have descended into a level of acceptance described by Josef Stalin, the late mass murderer of the Soviet era: “The death of a single person is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.”
Americans and other “civilized” nations have come to accept as a matter of course four spurious arguments to salve their consciences about what is going on in the dark corners (legal hospitals and clinics) where these infanticides are carried out: “The fetus is not a human being.”; “No one is injured.”; “A woman has a right to what goes on in her own body.”; and “No woman should be obligated to loan out her body to a mere fetus.”
First of all, despite all of the biological/legal nonsensical arguments to the contrary, everything in the adult human is present at the moment of conception. If there is a soul, it came to be at that instant. The milestones of first fetal heartbeat, first intrauterine movement, first point of viability outside the uterus, and delivery of a live infant are all only steps in the developmental progression of a human being. There is one aspect of law in the United States that recognizes that fact: murder of a pregnant woman is a double homicide. Illogically and ignominiously, we have a schizophrenic approach in the law: the killing of an unborn infant is acceptable if done as a legal abortion.
The thought processes that govern acceptance of abortion of otherwise entirely healthy unborn children carry impairment of thinking to an historically unprecedented level of mass indoctrination. Joycie Arthur, writing on Personhood, 2007, put it succinctly: “The status of a fetus is a matter of subjective opinion, and the only opinion that counts is that of the pregnant woman.” Apparently, a majority of Americans buy into that unthinking and spurious argument. The same author in 2001 put it another way: “For example, the state cannot force people to donate organs or blood, even to save someone’s life. We are not obligated by law to risk our lives jumping into a river to save a drowning victim, noble as that might be. Therefore, even if a fetus has a right to life, a pregnant woman is not required to save it by loaning out her body for nine months against her will.” [Emphasis, the present author’s].
Those arguments fly in the face of our national cooperative agreement: we spend huge amounts of the citizens’ money to save one pound premature infants; we expend fortunes every year to rescue fools who disobey all measures of commonsense and the law and ski or snow mobile into prohibited territory, to locate missing children, to combat forest fires, floods, and other natural disasters even though most of those contributing have no association with the unfortunates involved. Dr. Kavorkian was roundly condemned as being “Doctor Death” for performing assisted suicides in people–many of whom were just sad—and he went to prison. Abortionists, however, are respected members of the medical community. It seems to this author that there are few more glaring examples of illogical thinking than that. It is easier to make reference to the unborn as an “it”, “a fetus”, rather than as a baby, a human being. That way we can justify failure to include our helpless unborn into our national cooperative agreement.
Let us be clear on one thing: the babies being killed are healthy and would live normal lives if allowed to be born into a nurturing family with a caring mother. Far less than one percent of abortions are performed for pregnancies resulting from rape, incest, high risk to the mother, or for serious deformities of the developing infant—more aptly distinguished as therapeutic abortions. That is, the vast majority of abortions in the world are induced abortions–purely elective. In China and India, most abortions are performed to kill girl babies, because of the prevailing concept that boys are more valuable. Taking the heartless objective approach that Josef Stalin or Mao Tse-Tung espoused regarding the sanctity of human life, especially including the value of the unborn, we can ask, “Does it really matter? Is society as a whole benefitted or harmed” Or for that matter, is the mother—who has become the focal point of our protective involvement—harmed by abortion? Those questions will be considered in blog post three of this series of Friday blogs. continued…