Abortion -- The Right Answer

Contrary to those who live in the fuzzy logic of the gray, there are some life questions which demand a "right" and "wrong" answer. Whether to support or to oppose abortion is one of these questions.

And, contrary to Justice Blackmun's refusal to "resolve the difficult question of when life begins" each of us must, individually, resolve that very question. Indeed, it is the only question which needs resolution as every other question involved in the abortion controversy logically flows from its resolution.

We know that human beings give birth to human beings (and "persons" within the meaning of the 14th Amendment). A belief in any other reality is insanity.

It, therefore, follows that a pregnant human female has in her womb either that which is a human being or that which will become a human being. There are no other available choices.

Thus, when confronted with the choice whether to support or to oppose abortion, a moral person must first answer for himself whether that which would be killed is or is not a human being.

The failure to directly confront this question is the act of a moral coward.

There are three choices: 1) The unborn child is a human being; 2) The unborn child is not a human being; and 3) We don't know whether it is or it is not.

The first two choices require proof. Unfortunately, there is no definitive proof as to when a human being becomes a human being -- except at the moment of birth.

So, we don't know. It's "above our pay grade."

Therefore, if you support abortion, you support killing what might be human beings. (This is akin to a hunter shooting at a rustle in the bushes -- uncaring whether what he shoots at is a person or a deer. He doesn't know, and he doesn't care.) If you oppose abortion, then you oppose killing what might be human beings.

Of these two positions, only one has any moral authority and is the right answer.