Submitted by piratechick123 on 10/11/2008 03:20 PM Flag This Paper
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Liberty versus life, at what point do the two collide, and of the two, which ends up on top, with priority? Our constitution, through its practical application, seems clear enough on this. The extent of one’s liberty stops dead at the point where it would infringe upon others. And yet, this seems forgotten when the victim is unable to cry out, our inconvenience made more important than their single most basic of rights, the right to life. Abortion continues.
This clearly black and white issue, literally life and death, gains it’s skeptics at its foundation. Where the definition of life is painted gray? There are those that would argue that the baby isn’t a person at all, thus has no rights, others still say that it is only a person once it reaches a certain level of development. So when does humanity kick in, when is it a person? Well it is at the very moment of conception. What else is it, what is the difference between it and us? Is it the level of development, because if such is the case then one could argue, on the same basis, that anyone under the age of 21 is not a person, considering they are not fully developed. No, the level of development is irrelevant, and not well founded. “The Silent Scream†a real-time ultrasound movie of an actual suction abortion of a 12-week old baby, narrated by Dr. B. Nathanson, a former abortionist, depicts the struggles of this unborn baby as it tries desperately to dodge the suction instrument, as it is ripped limb from limb. In the end the babe is merely able to open its mouth in a inaudible scream of pain. Indeed by the 3rd week of conception the fetus, as pro-choice advocates would have it called, is alive from the beginning.
Now one must ask themselves, at what point can collateral damage, that damage being the deaths of innocents, be justified for convenience, well it can’t ever be. However there are other scenarios to be considered, such as possible birth defects, maternal morality risks, and...