Abortion - Roe vs Wade ended June 24 2022

 Abortion? To abort is to stop something already in progress.

Many missions are aborted if, once under progress they are deemed to be too dangerous or counter productive. Roe/Wade https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/410/113  asserted that the rights and services afforded to a female in one state should also be provided to her in her own state ie Texas. Roe did not want to say that she had been raped. Which would have made her abortion legal. She did not want to lie. This was granted under her rights to privacy. I think that the Pro Life advocates could have pointed to the Declaration of Independence assertion of a persons right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. That calls into question the definition of the term  person or even more broadly, human and ‘given by their creator’. So in this debate who is the human? Arguably both mother and fetus. Who is the citizen? The mother. Who is the creator? Mother and father or God? And I think this is why they make it a religious argument. Because they have made this a religious argument they also insulate it from logical debate. Rape, incest, that does not prohibit the fetus God given right to alive. It will also likely spur them to move from states rights to a constitutional amendment on the grounds of making us a moral country. Pro choice is clearly focused on the inalienable rights of the mother where Pro Life leap frogs the mother in favor of the yet unborn. As a father or as a husband I am clearly focused on the needs of my daughter and of my wife. When that baby is born, he or she becomes the focus of all of us. It has been pointed out that technology has redefined pregnancy and viability. Ultrasound has made the unborn more human and other technology has made the premature more viable outside the womb. Can or will technology make babies without mothers and will these, clearly man made creations be the objects of Pro life? Right now, how many babies would nature self abort and mothers would die that are saved by technology?

No one is Pro Abortion. That is my opinion as is the opening definition mine. When a woman learns that she is pregnant it can fill her with joy and or dread. The Female is uniquely bonded to conception in ways that the male does not and cannot imagine. A male can deny paternity and often does, per Maury Povitch, where a woman cannot. A woman via biology and instinct is bonded with and loves their baby before birth and often before conception whereas for a man it is a learned response. It is my opinion that men are the motivators behind abortion. They can begin with denial and then put pressure on the female to  take care of the problem. To counter the impact of forced birthing I think genetic testing at birth to identify the father followed by the assignment of financial responsibility for the next 21 years of the child’s life would be a start towards leveling the playing field. It must also be noted that a human female can conceive at age 12. She is a child and remains a child for the next 6 years. The male can impregnate a female at age 12 as well so two kids fooling around can create a baby that neither one is prepared for. In those cases it should fall upon the parents until the boy comes of age. Incest, rape by a family member or rape by a friend or stranger should incur the same financial responsibilities as well as criminal prosecution.

I have heard pro life females advocating for providing a quality of life for mother and child rather than abortion. Yes, sounds nice. I suspect that welfare roles will rise. Welfare, childcare. WIC, food stamps, public housing… I hope our society cares as much about the child as they do the fetus. 

This is and issue that I have never had to deal with on a personal level. At age 74 the situation will likely never cross my path as is the situation for most Americans but if my daughter was faced with making a decision I would support her decision.

It follows that Pro Choice is intrinsic to my position. I would want the law to protect my daughter’s right to privacy. From prying eyes including my own if she wanted to keep it to herself. I would hope that she would know that her mother and I would both be supportive throughout the decision making process. I would not want her forced to have a baby that she did not want. Hence Pro Choice. On the other hand she might support this Supreme Court decision and I suppose her right to do that.