Re: To Nancy

Am I one of those guys who sits at his keyboard and talks big about saving unborn children? I don't know. To tell you the truth this isn't really my idea of fun. I mean I enjoy the art of debate, but I'm finding that I'm debating a bunch of people who are alien to my sense of reasoning.

There for a while I found myself getting upset about it, but now I guess it's resonating what I'm up against. I can't explain it, nor understand it. I especially cannot understand being ambivalent about pictures of death -- real or unreal. (To me even ficticious pictures portraying death are disturbing.)

I do understand, however, your side. Trust me I do. I try to visualize myself as a woman who has a living being inside of me that I don't want. I'm not an idiot...I can see how SOME people may consider abortion. But you have to understand I see this through different lenses. I look at it from the standpoint of that child -- a new human life. I try to see that person as ME. I see life as precious. When someone has an abortion they're putting an abrupt end to a life that will never ever be formed again. This child will never get to see the light of the beautifully-created day like you or I have. Death is permanent. This is pretty powerful if you think about it.

I used to rationalize early-term abortions....up until a couple months ago even! But the more I study biophysics and cell biology (I'm quite the investigator, by the way) the more I learn that there is something MAGICAL created at inception that is unexplainable by science. There's a physical body there, of course...but there's something else too. There's something going on that makes us all human. We aren't plants. We all have a conscience...we all have a soul that's uniquely created, which thirsts for life and love....we all have an inner spirit that knows just how to assemble the beautiful house it will live in.

Unfortunately this new life collides with a woman's "right" to have an abortion. Something has to give. Something has to take priority. I just think as horrible as it is to have an unwanted pregnancy, it's more horrible to destroy a new life.