An Unaborted Rationale

I've been exasperated of late trying to understand the thinking of pro-abortion folks. Unfortunately, I don't know many people who have an articulate position for abortions.

I know the foolishly ignorant who are for it – non-thinking, head-in-the-sand types who don't ask questions and actively refuse to learn. But if you can get them to stop long enough to broach the topic, they'll wither under the bright light of rational conversation.

I know the pathologically selfish who are pro-abortion. They regret their own children and resent any kind of intrusion into their lives. If push comes to shove, they don't deny that abortion is killing a child… and that's scary.

I know one-track activists who are for abortion. To them abortion is not a real subject in and of itself but a pawn on the chessboard of politics and/or feminism. They don't see a child at all, they only see the mother's body, which is an unscientific and unsupportable claim.

At the moment of conception, a new and unique strand of DNA is created. It's not the mother nor a part of her body, in fact in may even have a different blood type. It is not a fish or an animal or a virus, rather it is human DNA, unlike any other that has every existed in history. It is truly one of a kind, already containing all of the code it will ever need to be a complete and whole person. It is nourished by nutrients and oxygen as it will be for many decades to come, and though is it dependent on its mother, that dependency will fade as time passes (hopefully before college).

What possible justification exists for killing this person? If you are not ignorant, selfish, or distracted, what rationale do you have for killing these children?

Population control?

Racism or some form of elitism?

I'd really like to know.