06-30-2022, 11:18 AM
We can all accept that there is no valid pretext for doing an armed robbery. Armed robberies are comparatively rare, but they are one of the most common circumstances in which murder happens. Danger of death to a victim is enough reason to treat any armed robbery as attempted murder, as is reflected in the Michigan penal code, The sentence for armed robbery is the same for attempted murder or second-degree murder" 25 years to life with no possible parole for 25 years, with parole not a certainty after 25 years. Michigan's long, bleak winters alone are good reason to not put one at risk of such a penal term in Michigan.
Abortion is far more complex. Some abortions are medically mandatory even for a woman who truly wants her baby to be born. Some involve an underage child (and sex with a minor is rape!) or some form of rape. I'm guessing that single mothers are particularly vulnerable to acquaintance rapes. A child of a rapist will carry genes of its siring rapist, and those genes are more likely to contribute to sociopathy. I think that we can all wish that Charles Manson, Saddam Hussein, and Ted Bundy, all of whom came into existence under shady circumstances (most likely some sort of rape), had been aborted.
I think that we can all imagine abortions that we consider objectionable -- anything done under economic duress, as abortions necessary to keep some job in a vile sweatshop, let alone being able to survive as a slave laborer in a Nazi "labor" camp instead of being sent to the gas chamber. In such cases abortion is literal murder. Selfish reasons may be discerned in some cases (a chorine must abort the child to not have a break in employment as a danseuse) or because she refuses to "look fat" at the expense of her lucrative career as a model. Through some selfish choice one can debase anything in life, and not only pregnancy. We find that automobiles are essential tools in some armed robberies, which does not result in their being banned.
Abortion is far more complex. Some abortions are medically mandatory even for a woman who truly wants her baby to be born. Some involve an underage child (and sex with a minor is rape!) or some form of rape. I'm guessing that single mothers are particularly vulnerable to acquaintance rapes. A child of a rapist will carry genes of its siring rapist, and those genes are more likely to contribute to sociopathy. I think that we can all wish that Charles Manson, Saddam Hussein, and Ted Bundy, all of whom came into existence under shady circumstances (most likely some sort of rape), had been aborted.
I think that we can all imagine abortions that we consider objectionable -- anything done under economic duress, as abortions necessary to keep some job in a vile sweatshop, let alone being able to survive as a slave laborer in a Nazi "labor" camp instead of being sent to the gas chamber. In such cases abortion is literal murder. Selfish reasons may be discerned in some cases (a chorine must abort the child to not have a break in employment as a danseuse) or because she refuses to "look fat" at the expense of her lucrative career as a model. Through some selfish choice one can debase anything in life, and not only pregnancy. We find that automobiles are essential tools in some armed robberies, which does not result in their being banned.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.