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» We Are a Species That Kills Our Own Young | ABQ Journal

by Sid Gutierrez – Retired Astronaut

The issue of abortion really comes down to two very basic observations and the answer to a single question. First, the observations. If an abortion really involves the removal of nothing more than growing tissue within the womb, then no justification is necessary. If abortion actually involves taking the life of an innocent unborn child, then no justification is sufficient.

So the only question that needs to be resolved is whether that which is growing within the womb is tissue or child. Arguments not addressing this question are irrelevant.

Krueger provides the answer to this question in her article. She describes the proposed requirement to “view a play by play obstetric ultrasound and listen to the heartbeat of the unborn child” as a “gruesome experience.”

Why would it be gruesome? I recall my wife and I listening carefully in the doctor’s office for the heart beat of our unborn children. My grown daughters now proudly place ultrasound images of their unborn children on Facebook for all of their friends to see. These actions are viewed as beautiful and joyous, not as “cruel.”  Click to read the full article

 

3 thoughts on “» We Are a Species That Kills Our Own Young | ABQ Journal”

  1. I like Michael’s point. It shows the need for people to be grounded in Thomistic philosophy – especially our children who are going to have to continue the battle with the world when we no longer can.

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  2. Good article. Its a valid point that once the value of life is determined the solution is easier but the sacredness of life in its earliest development is a basic human good and we are obligated to not interfere with it. So, even if it was a blob of tissue, it would be wrong much like contraception is wrong. Justification would be necessary.

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    • I see what you mean, the process is sacred unto the Lord. Still it’s impossible for it, the result of conception, to be just a blob of tissue. It is what it is.

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