Abortion: Why It Is Murder!

Strong enough title? I am not exaggerating when I use the word 'murder', abortion is murder. What is killed in the women is a very young, very dependent, human-life. It cannot be denied that an unborn baby, regardless of how young it is, is human-life.

When that life is destroyed out of selfish interests, the mother will try to dehumanize the life that she destroyed (so that her murderous act isn't perceived as such).  She will tell herself: "well, it had no soul, and doesn't look very human". First of all, being that we don't know what a soul/consciousness is, we cannot know when a human has it—all we know is that humans do have it, not when they don't (memory =/= consciousness). Regardless if the unborn baby has it or not, that does not remove the fact that it is irrelevant; the human-life would, in the very near future, have it regardless. Does this mean that if human-life is not consciously aware, that it is okay to do whatever you want with it?

Let's say a women is unconscious, and a guy rapes her. Would this be morally acceptable (assuming she truly wasn't conscious at the time)? All of the pro-lifers (I think) would claim that to be highly immoral and disgusting! But the woman that was raped was not consciously aware of anything at the time. Of course, later down the road, when she wakes up, she will be horrified by what has happened to her body (unborn babies never have the chance to wake up).

Just because something is legal, does not mean it is morally justifiable. During WW2 it was legal to kill Jews, does that mean that killing Jews in Germany during that time period was okay in a moral sense? Absolutely not! Now, obviously pro-lifers are not Nazis, but they seem to have a similar moral rational.

Just because a human life exist within a mother, does not give the mother the right to kill it because it is inconvenient. Actions have consequences, and sex, like all actions, has certain consequences. For the people that engage in risky sexual behavior, they know the risk, and should have to live with the result. If the mother does not want to raise the child, she can put it up for adoption, but she has no right to commit murder!

There is nothing more innocent than an unborn baby.