The Real Meaning of “Choice”

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I had an experience recently I will not soon forget.  I had a conversation with a woman with whom I’ve become quite friendly who told me a fascinating story.
    
She was adopted.  Although she is very close to and loving with her adoptive family, she was quite interested in knowing something about her birth mother and father - for medical history reasons (I never quite believe that, considering the technology available today for diagnoses) and for curiosity’s sake.  She realized and accepted that there would probably be “the good, the bad, and the ugly” to learn, and she was right. Continue reading The Real Meaning of “Choice”…

A Moral And Ethical Dilemma For Abortion Rights Supporters?

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What a conundrum for liberals who support any and all abortions at any time for any reason under the rubric of “pro-choice” freedoms.  Liberals are also supposedly for diversity.  Well, here’s the problem:  If a woman is free to abort the human being developing in her body for any whim, shouldn’t she be able to abort the baby if it has been genetically tested and the results are not “pleasing?”

The New York Times  “Week in Review” “Prenatal Tests + Abortion = ???” (May 13, 2007) dealt with this growing concern about pro-choice abortion morality and ethics:

      “Abortion rights supporters - who believe that a woman has the right to make decisions about her own body-have had to grapple with the reality that the right to choose may well be used selectively to abort fetuses deemed genetically undesirable.  And many are finding that, while they support a woman’s right to have an abortion if she does not want to have a baby, they are less comfortable when abortion is used by women who don’t want to have a particular baby.” Continue reading A Moral And Ethical Dilemma For Abortion Rights Supporters?…

Making Judgments About The Supreme Court’s Latest Decision About Abortion

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I just about lost it reading Linda P. Campbell’s syndicated column (www.realcities.com/mld/dfw/news/columnists/linda_campbell/17137857/17137857.htm) about the Supreme Court’s abortion decision not being simple or neat. Let me take some of her points one by one, as she explains her abhorrence of any controls over any abortion, in addition to the barbaric sucking out of a baby’s brain after the head emerges from the birth canal (partial birth abortion). 

First, she says “And of course, a woman who’s about to undergo an abortion ought to understand the details, risks and implications just as much as she should before a tummy tuck, hip replacement, or appendectomy.” Continue reading Making Judgments About The Supreme Court’s Latest Decision About Abortion…