I Am Not a Body Part

I never got bent out of shape over abortions because I always felt it was out of my depth. Abortions were pure women's league. Men were spectators. We could cheer, or boo, but we were not allowed on the field, (unless in an official capacity). Then, it came to me: That embryo is not a part of that woman's body. It is an entity of its own. That notion became a game-changer. That put us all on the field.  

People have abortions to save themselves from unwanted pregnancies. The actual motives vary from "saving the life of the mother," to "having a baby right now would be an inconvenience." All reasons are capped by, "It is her right to choose what she does with her body." According to the polls, most Americans agree, even when the goal of each abortion is a prenatal death. How could a species have veered so far from its genesis? This is not a matter of evolution. This is a conscious decision to kill our offspring by the millions to create more space in our lives for ourselves. 

We understand the argument - "her right to do as she chooses with her body." But, that embryo is not part of her body. Her body surrounds the embryo. Her body is designed to protect that embryo. It is a benevolent design. 

We seem to have come to accept that the embryo is part of the mother's body, even though we know it is not.  I mean, what could it be, another organ? Hear this: The embryo has its own design - to father or mother future generations. That its own parts are so tiny, we think that gives us the right to kill it? 

Perhaps a random mutation has occurred in our DNA - a modification - that allows mothers to mentally disconnect from the umbilical cord while the physical cord remains intact. What else could have short-circuited this vital reproductive messaging that has bound the female gender of all living organisms to the utter survival of their offspring? What else could have precipitated this unnatural selection?

Mothers around this nation are declaring: "I do not want this embryo n my body. I do not feel that i am bound to protect it." If not her, then who takes up that charge according to creation? When the mother refuses this sacred trust because she is an advanced species of mammal - one with such intellect and self-awareness that she can assume rights (of choice) not included in the precepts of creation, then what ensures that her most sacred duty is done? By assisting in dislodging the embryo from the womb, we sully the lines of motherhood and render the protections that make it all possible obsolete by law. Is that what we want - to undo the hand of God; to render his work passe'? Have we taken God's place in the natural order? Is this carnage of innocents the price we pay for usurping his proven plan? Whatever we think we are doing, it will not work.

Abortion is a "heads I win, tails you lose" proposition for the unborn. Regardless of the motive the adult declares, the unborn loses utterly. That is abortion's design. There are no second chances for these embryos. They cannot be the objects of pregnancies a year from now, five years, or a hundred years. They cannot be born again. What we have here is not evolution, it is devolution. At our present pace, unless there is a signpost ahead - a detour - we are headed straight for hell. 

The tendency here in America is to vilify. There is no time for that. This is the time for finding safe passage for the unborn, to make sure they make it to the promised land called "life." Nature has provided all of the infrastructures - gave the mother all of the room she needs to carry the child; designed a breathing and feeding apparatus; even given the growing tyke the reflexes, if not the self-awareness, to communicate his intentions. That is the point of those wonderful little kicks. He wants to let us know he is coming - chopping at the bit to join the race... the human race. We are the final place of the infrastructure. He/she has become everyone's responsibility. 

Where mothers declare they are neither willing nor bound to protect these fatal children, a fellowship must stand at the ready to ensure each and every life gets its chance. Without such a society, we become savages the likes of which this Earth had never imagined, and beings throughout the universe would despise.