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The True Cost, and Sin, of Abortion:
As I sit here writing this article, I am
drawn to how to present this in a manner that isn’t preaching, but showing
fact, not about abortion being murder, or any of the Republican or Democrat
talking points, but as to the real cost of abortion that has, and is, crippling
this country.
Most will take this to be of a faith based
nature, and as far as that goes, abortions are between those who have them,
those who perform them, and God. I do not judge either way, but let’s look at
what abortions have cost our country.
FDR had a great experiment with our country,
and part of that was Social Security,
a great ponzi scheme if you think about it. Each generation would pay for the
generation before it. Sounds good, because abortion was not in the mainstream,
and wasn’t something that good old ‘Progressive’ President worried about. We
had a robust country, and with the growth potential, we could do anything,
achieve greatness.
Then we run into Roe vs Wade, the 1973
Supreme Court decision that gave women the right to ‘control their reproductive
systems’ and get abortions when they wanted. Abortion on demand if you will
accept the use of that term will always be a bad form of birth control.
So we now see that abortion has had dramatic
financial effects on the United States. With all the ‘baby boomers’ set to
retire, those who should have been paying into the system to keep it afloat, no
longer exist. So, exactly how many abortions have been committed, legally,
since Roe v Wade was passed? I have seen estimates ranging from 39 million to
54 million
which breaks out to 1,350,000 a year or 3699 a day. (Almost 1,600,000 dollars a
day) THERE is one of the main reasons that abortion providers fight so hard to
keep them legal. Planned Parenthood may be screaming that they aren’t making
money providing the services for low wage income females who can’t afford the
services, thus they get federal money. There is money in genocide, and it seems
to pay well.(And
contrary to the hype from the liberal left, Planned Parenthood DOES NOT do
mammograms, they are not licensed to do so.)
Now let’s look at the societal effect of
abortion, and to me, this is where it really hurts us a country. I used the
term Genocide, and let me back that up. [Martin Luther King, Jr.] once said, “The Negro cannot win as long as he
is willing to sacrifice the lives of his children for comfort and safety.” How
can the “Dream” survive if we murder the children? Every aborted baby is like a
slave in the womb of his or her mother. The mother decides his or her fate.
Even though we see where abortion rates have
dropped for White and Black, markedly so, ‘Others’ as the next graph shows have
dropped, but they were nowhere close to where Whites and Blacks were.
So, some will say that all we have lost are
some gangbangers, prostitutes, drug abusers, sellers, and the ‘dregs’ of
society, but we have lost a human toll. Think about how many people who would
have made a change in this country, undoubtedly abortion has cost us a couple
of Presidents, members of Congress, Judges, Police Officers, Military
Personnel, Firefighters, civil servants of all branches of local, state and
federal government. We have also lost scientist, teachers, those who could
really make a difference in our world. Some woman who decided that a child
would screw up her life and had an abortion, she may have killed a child who
would have found a way to make fuel out of algae or salt water. We may have
lost an engineer who could have discovered ways to build bridges with a slower
rate of decay, thus not needing to replace our infrastructure as fast as it
should be done and maybe stronger for less.
Let’s talk for a second about the mental toll
on women who have had the procedure for rape, or incest. This is a travesty of
justice that also needs to be addressed. Yes, people are guaranteed the right
to face their accusers in court, but why do we victimize those who are attacked
whether by date rape, or molestation, or just a crime of opportunity? The
damage done to their psychology is almost beyond repair, and then they face the
trauma of going after the person who perpetrated this crime, as if they asked
for it! Unless they are into S&M, or along that ilk, I doubt if it was asked
for, yet these women who are brave enough to stand for their rights get
shunned, and I cannot imagine the horror that runs through their minds for the
rest of their lives. We need to change our laws to go after those who commit
rape or incest, and bring it upon them, not their victims, as a very close
friend of mine had been molested from 6 months to 12, when she found out it was
wrong. All her father got was a warning to stay away from children, but no jail
time. If congress can pass a flawed Lilly Ledbetter law, for a woman who sued a
company that fired her for cause – 28 years AFTER she was fired, why congress
can’t take care of this horror of our society is beyond me.
So, unlike a number of my Republican brethren
and Christians on the right, I do feel that abortions are something that we
need to stay out of. Yes, it seems we are waging a war on the productive rights
of Sandra Fluke, who can afford her own birth control, and the press blew up
something that didn’t exist to make a mockery out of health care. Should we
fight for the rights of the unborn? Yes, but we need to do so offering condoms,
counseling, care, friendship; not scorn or judgment. Only by changing the
hearts and minds of those who see abortion as the only answer can we change our
country, and put it back on a track of greatness, or, if you will, exceptionalism. We deserve it; we owe it to those who came before us, and those
who will come after us.
