Legal or Illegal: Abortion?

[Bond]

Traditionally, I watch on television and see the issue of abortion broken down into two polarized viewpoints: those with strong religious views on God’s power of creation vs. those with strong views for “women’s rights.” I view this sensationalized debate as a fallacy.

I will now attempt to make an argument against the legality of abortion, without evoking God in the slightest. In fact, I will argue that it is any modern government’s responsibility to ban abortion.

We must first examine the role of a modern government. In the most basic sense, its role should be to protect its citizen’s civil liberties and security. The government, in order to be impartial, must protect the civil liberties of all of its citizens. Encompassed among this phrase “all citizens” is the least among us – the poor, the disabled, and the unborn. In fact, if the government cannot protect the least among us, how can we have confidence in our government?

I know the argument is often made as to when precisely this mass of cells becomes a true human, but I find this argument irrelative. The truth is we just don’t know, and frankly, we don’t need to know. Having unprotected sex is a risk. It’s a risk that could produce a human, and that risk must be accepted, in fact, it is the responsibility of those engaging in unprotected sex to be aware of the possibility of a child – there is no excuse.

When a woman conceives – she is now not only in charge of her fate, but also the fate of an unborn human. This unborn human, being among the least of our citizens, must be entitled to his or her own destiny. Modern governments do not allow murder. Murder is a direct a violent compromise of one’s own destiny, and a violation of one’s liberties – this is abortion.

I will intentionally keep this brief so that we can continue the conversation with points left out, but allow me to also add a personal note. Have you ever seen an abortion performed? I have… thankfully on videotape. It is a horrible act. Murder.