Pray to end abortion, the road side sign says 🙏

You sometimes see that sign nailed to telephone poles or strapped on the porches of rundown rural homesteads way out in the country. Liberals like to dismiss these folks as brain washed “fundies”, they American Taliban. But when you hear these folks talk, they are deeply held in their convictions.

While my views have evolved, I support safe and legal abortions as it’s a relatively low cost medical procedure and it can make a women’s life better by having the choice between carrying a pregnancy to term or not.

Now I don’t approve of recreational sexual activities or one night stands. The risk of sexually transmitted diseases that can have life altering consequences like HIV remains high even if many are very mitigable. I don’t like how television promotes casual sexual activities or sex for fun or reasons other than having a child. Contraception isn’t perfect.

Any society with the creation of life is going to have the destruction of life. But a child yet born is going to have none of the experiences of life, none of the colors, the smells or the tastes of life. They might have the beating of a heart but it’s the meaningless contraction of muscle cells, much like a recently slaughtered chicken might flap around after his or her head is chopped off. But those contractions are meaningless.