Pro-choice Hypocrisy
February 28, 2012 2 Comments
Just a quick thought…
Last week the Daily Telegraph, in an impressive journalistic scoop, managed to uncover the fact that not only are some women seeking abortions because of the gender of their baby, but that health ‘professionals’ are obliging in this illegal service. You can find the evidence here.
Now we can understand those who are Pro-Life being offended by this, but abortion in general is offensive to such. But why is it that those who are ‘Pro-Choice’ are so appalled at this? If a woman entered a surgery and said she wanted an abortion because of social circumstances or even just because she ‘had her reasons’, then the law (or the way the law is applied, see below), and therefore the physician, would recognise this as her inalienable right and proceed. However when the request is on the basis that she wants a son instead of a daughter then there’s outcry. I don’t understand why anyone is surprised that this is taking place and the further report which suggests that this practice is widespread should come as no shock. When we have it drummed into us that pre-24 week life in the womb is dispensable if inconvenient, then why not terminate the unborn if they have been as inconvenient as to be the wrong gender?
David Steel - A man with a 45-year-old burden on his conscience?
Also, I would encourage all citizens to look at what the Abortion Act of 1967 actually says about the conditions under which an abortion is permitted – you might be surprised at the latitude with which it is interpreted. It won’t take you long, check out the Act here and for interesting comment on this see here. Bad (and, yes, unrighteous) laws have allowed this scandal to emerge and I dare say the implications for where this denigration of the worth of life shall take us as a society still has a long way to run yet.
The original Hippocratic oath didn’t get it too far wrong:
…I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give a woman a pessary to produce abortion…
Beginning of December, a program aired on ABC 20/20 about India’s deadly secret. It was about 40 million girls who have vanished. All aborted before they could take their first breath. Their crime was that they were girls. As you know the gender ratios is India are terribly skewed about 914 girls per 1,000 boys. In Punjab it is about 833 girls per1,000 boys. Unfortunately this happens amongst the privileged and the educated also. The only woman who has brought cases against her in-laws and husband is Dr Mitu Khurana. Please watch her story and sign her petition for justice. Please give those 40 million girls silenced forever, a voice. Please forward this to as many friends as possible.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/a-mothers-fight-to-save-her-daughters/
http://gendercide.epetitions.net/
After you sign the petition, there will be a request from the site for a donation. This donation is totally discretionary and does not in any way or form affect or benefit Dr Mitu Khurana. All she is asking for is your support (signing this petition) so that pressure can be put on the Indian authorities that the whole world is watching them in total disbelief as they make a young mother run around in vain for four years in search of justice
Insightful comment – this post is aptly titled. Personally, I believe its a classic case of man’s idolatrous attempt to erect and maintain a “self-righteousness” when he dispenses of God’s righteousness. Hence, committing murder is right at times, and wrong at other times. They’ve dispensed with “Thou shalt not kill,” replacing it with “Thou shalt not kill…because of gender”.