Abortion

It is election time, and it wouldn’t be like me to not talk about something politically related. Today’s hot button issue – abortion.

Let’s start off with some “facts”. I use the quotes, because you never know how much of what you read online you can trust. That being said, here are the following facts I discovered over the last few days.

Fact #1: According to the Guttmacher Institute, 1.29 Million abortions were performed in 2002. It seems they don’t have the most recent data, but that will suffice. This comes out to an average of 3,534 abortions PER DAY for each day of 2002. Projecting those numbers of a period of 3 years, and you get somewhere around 3.25 to 3.75 million abortions.
Fact #2: According to Iraq Coalition Casualties, 2816 U.S. soldiers have been killed during the war in Iraq since 2003. This averages out to roughly 2 deaths per day during that timespan.

Combining Fact 1 and Fact 2, we have a ratio of 1767 to 1 for abortions per day vs. U.S. military deaths per day in the war in Iraq.

First of all, let that statement sink in for a moment.

I think abortion is wrong. Period. End of story. No room for debate. You will have a hard time convincing me otherwise. Danielle and I talked about it the other day. We went through the typical scenarios. What if you were raped? What if your life was in danger?, etc., etc. We came up with the conclusion that we still wouldn’t opt for an abortion. Of course this is only hypothetical and circumstances sometimes effect decisions, but we still reached the same conclusion.

It makes me so angry to think that people can justify the killing of unborn children. Please tell me how to rationalize that decision. Why is it illegal to kill a child the moment after it’s born, but you can abort a baby in a horrific fashion during the actual delivery process (aka Partial Birth Abortion)?

Sometimes the whole issue makes me so angry I can’t even think straight. I know it is an emotional issue for many people, and I do not judge people that have the decision one way or another.

I guess the point of this post is this: put some thought into why you believe what you believe? Is it because your parents do? Is it because it’s the right thing to do? Why do you believe it?

The second point is, get out and vote, but before voting, do some research at places like Project Vote Smart. This site has lots of useful information, including voting records of just about any candidate you can imagine.

Use your vote to voice your opinion. It’s pretty much the most effective tool we have to get our voice heard. Don’t become one of the people who says, “my vote doesn’t count.” If everyone thought that way, our country would be a much different place.

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