Response to some Commenters

Okay, I'm not an idiot. I would just like to point out that name calling is a thing that liberals tend to resort to when they embrace a logically untenable point.

There is nothing more innocent than an unborn child or a brand new child. The child has not had the opportunity to make good choices or bad choices for its life. The death of that unborn child by abortion can be blamed on no one but the person given the responsibility of protecting that innocent life. You say the child is the unwanted result of a sexual tryst or a sexual assault. No one really wants it so terminate it. Of all of the people involved in the conception of the child, who is most innocent and blameless? Right, it is the child. But who pays with his or her life? Right again, the child.

The justification is to say that the "conceived organism" is not a human being. "Human being" is defined as whatever the legislature chooses for a definition. How can the product of the union of two human beings that is alive and growing not be a human being? There is no logic to support that.

It is indeed very sad when innocents are hurt or killed in the course of a war. However, the parent may not have the ability or power to protect the child when the evil doers of their own country choose to hide behind civilians and children or to build militatry installations among children. Moral of that: if you have children that you want to protect, don't pick a fight with a superior nation. And by the way, you throw up the war and President Bush as some sort of justification to support taxpayer subsidized abortion? How does one wrong in an entirely unrelated theater or set of circumstances justify the commission of another, perhaps greater wrong?

As for murderers and rapists (both of which are subject to the death penalty in certain jurisdictions under certain circumstances), that is the absolute worst comparison to the innocent unborn child. The criminal has chosen his path. He has chosen the commit his evil deeds, and the rules prescribing his punishment are in place when he violates the law. You can argue that the criminal may have been set on his path by the mistreatment from his parents, but at some point, an adult becomes responsible for his own path and choices. At that point, it just pitiful and pathetic to blame parents for one's poor choices as an adult. The child has violated no law. The child has had no choice. He or she was just unlucky enough to be unwelcomed and unwanted.

I understand that people make mistakes and bad choices. I understand that a person may make the personal choice to kill their child. As long as it's legal, the only consequence is reconciling with your own conscience. The government should not be subsidizing this practice. If you want one, pay for it yourself. Or if you are a teenager, ask your parents to pay for the death of their grandchild.

Where is the logic of making the unborn child pay with his or her life for the mistakes, errors, poor choices (whatever semantics you choose) of the individuals responsble for conceiving him or her?