On the topic of abortion.

I have tried to stay away from the topic of abortion until now. Few things have divided people the way the topic of abortion has in recent years. Admittedly, the conflict generally comes as a fight between religious views and non-religious views.

What happened today has managed to push to the forefront the argument between the two mindsets once again. An abortion doctor was murdered in church. He performed late term abortions and had received many death threats through the years.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/01/kansas.doctor.killed.charges/index.html

As you can imagine, being that I have made it very obvious that I'm a Liberal, I support abortion.

Before anyone flips out, let me explain please.

I support abortion only during the first trimester or in cases of severe deformity or if the mothers life is dependant upon it. I fully believe that a fetus is not a child until it can survive without being attached to the woman's body.

For those bible thumpers out there, Leviticus 17:11 states that Life is in the Blood. According to biology, a fetus does not have a functioning circulatory system until the second trimester.

For the rest of us, the already living must take precedence over the potential life. We willingly kill parasites like tape worms because we consider ourselves of more importance than the parasite. It is no different except that the fetus has human DNA.

Most people who have abortions don't do so "just because they don't want it". And its never an easy thing, no matter who the person is. For most women, it scars them for life for ever having had to make the choice in the first place.

Killing him was just as wrong as killing anyone else. And oddly enough, most pro-lifers only seem to be pro-life when it comes to a fetus but are gung-ho about sending grown men and women to die in foreign wars trying to push their lifestyle on others.

But I can hear the cries now. The screams of how unfair I'm being to the fetus and that the fetus would choose life. How can you be sure of that, exactly? You can't and thats the problem.

But listen, I implore you.

I know that, for me, I'd rather die than live mentally or physically retarded for the rest of my life.

On CNN today there was another article posted in the blog section of Anderson Cooper 360 that you should really read about a woman who had a late term abortion 13 years ago and why she did it. I decided to look up the word "Anencephaly" that she talked about and I think I've come away scarred. This is going to give me nightmares for days. Its like some horrifying movie and something more terrifying has the feeling of being dreamed up by Hollywood in an effort to sell their product.

http://iowaindependent.com/2565/open-letter-to-obama-a-personal-perspective-on-late-term-abortion

And yet its real. Horrifyingly real. The stuff of terrifying dreams the likes of which you cannot even imagine.

This is the link...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anencephaly

And you people would rather that a person give birth to this than to abort it? Whats wrong with you that you would ever ever do such a thing?

This is why I support abortion. I don't think it should be used as birth control, but I also don't think that anyone should ever be forced to give birth to this.

Read it. I guarantee it will change your life forever.

I think I'm going to be sick.