The "Right" of Abortion

Recently, I've gotten a lot of email about a comment I made on the air about abortion. Here's the sentence that has so many pro-choice folk in an uproar:

"On the one hand, you've got people who ... don't want to see innocent children executed for no other crime than the irresponsibility of their would-be parents."

The key word that's so provocative: "irresponsibility".

Well, I stand by that comment. The fact is that, barring rapes, which make up only a tiny percentage of abortions, the only reason for getting an abortion is because you went and got yourself pregnant. In my book, that means you've already made your "choice".

If you want to kill your own baby, you can try to justify it to yourself any way you like. But don't you DARE try to tell me that it is anything other than what it is.

There are a plethora of contraceptives available, and adoption has always been an option. There are plenty of other "choices" that could have been made, and more that are still available even after conception, but ending a life - any life - is never an acceptable option in a civilized society.

Women who get abortions, excepting medical situations, are, in the largest part, only doing so because they want a quick fix for a "mistake", instead of owning up to the consequences of their choices and taking responsibility for their actions.

That attitude is deplorable. That the exercise of this so-called "right" involves the taking of a life is beyond despicable. And I won't even talk about the potential of a life thrown completely away on somebody else's whim!

So, instead of wasting your energy trying to convince thinking folk like myself that up is down or some other such nonsense, why don't you all start exercising some self-discipline, some discretion, and show a little bit of personal responsibility, or at least maturity. Or even humanity. Is that too much to ask?

And, frankly, I don't really care if my thoughts on the matter offend anyone. If it ticks you off, maybe it'll shake a thought loose in your congealed heads. As Ben Franklin once said, the sting of a rebuke is the truth. If it hurts, maybe you should think about why before lashing out at me.