From the desk of Rex Mortar:
I’m Hank Mortar, and I’m a University-educated redneck. Most of the people I know don’t really care about elective surgical abortion, because it doesn’t affect them. But there are strong advocates on both sides of the issue!
From a legal standpoint, if a drunk driver strikes a vehicle carrying a pregnant mother on her way to have an abortion, but the collision kills the child, the other driver would be charged with vehicular homicide!
If a doctor kills that same child with a forceps, then it’s perfectly legal. At most the drunk driver should be charged with practicing medicine without a license. It is this type of legal inconsistency that proves legalized abortion simply does not fit into our legal framework.
Killing must always be wrong. It cannot be dependent on who does the killing. From the perspective of sexual morality, abortion is the direct result of fornication. Yes, some married women have abortions, but they fornicated at some point.
If girls remained virgins until marriage, there would be no need for elective surgical abortion. I’ve read some justifications women have used to legitimize abortion.
- I got drunk! It was a terrible mistake! I don’t even know who the father was! I can’t remember a thing! I blacked out! I called the clinic. The woman said it would be easy for me to just continue on in school, and forget the past. So, I had an abortion.
- I slept with a guy. I got pregnant by him. And I got AIDS from him. I didn’t want my baby to be born with AIDS, so I had an abortion.
- I was thirteen, dating a forty-two-year-old guy. He got me pregnant. He said I wouldn’t want him to get in trouble for having sex with me, because he really loved me. We went to the clinic, and they took care of everything. No parents. No cops.
- I always imagined being in love and committed to my soul mate, and being financially stable, before having a kid. It was just the wrong time in my life. And the father wasn’t the one for me. So, I had an abortion.
- After my first period, my Dad took me out into the street and sold me some guy for ten dollars. I got pregnant. My Dad said I couldn’t keep it. So, I got an abortion.
- My boyfriend said he’d break up with me if I kept the baby! So, I had an abortion.
Clearly, none of these women (girls) would have needed an abortion if they hadn’t gotten pregnant in the first place!