If you believe in God, you must ask why God creates a defective egg, or why would he abort a life he had just created. And, why God infuses a soul into the fertilized ovum of a raped female. Doesn't he know that rape is immoral, and that no child should be its product?
Also, ask yourself, is it moral for God to let so many children be born into poverty and injustice? My answer is this: nature is in charge, not God... and nature does not know the difference between a good man and a rapist or between moral and immoral or between just and unjust.
Those who believe in nature instead of God, know that nature operates through "trial and error". Thus, it aborts what it did not make right; the defective egg, the embryo, or the fetus. Understandably, the nature does not abort a fetus conceived through rape.
A fetus is a potential citizen, not a citizen yet. In fact, the mother can deliver her baby in another country, and obtain citizenship of that country for her child.
The fetus is the natural citizen of the mother, and the mother is the only one with jurisdiction over it until she hands over that right to a government by obtaining citizenship of that country for her child. Having no jurisdiction over the fetus, the government has no right to protect it or otherwise.
Once a citizen, the child can receive legal protection and human rights from that government if it provides any. Until then, the mother is in charge, and we can do nothing but to let her abort her embryo if she wishes to do so. What we can do is to convince her to respect the life of her fetus if its brain has already grown to a point that can feel pain.
The government must govern according to the scientific facts in contrast to the church's operation which is based on beliefs. The separation of church and state makes it illegal for the religious groups to seek favorable legislations as a way to impose their religious agenda on everyone else.
The Government must consider abortion from the scientific point of view as to whether an embryo is a human, and let science decide as to when the embryo becomes a fetus, and then a human.
A pregnancy resulted from a rape deserves an immediate abortion before the fertilized ovum turns into an embryo, and certainly before the embryo turns into a fetus that can have feelings. Moreover, the availability of the birth control measures should make it a crime for a willing female and a male to end up with an unwanted pregnancy.
The fertilized human egg has the potential to grow into a human being. But, becoming a human is a gradual process. The new born is a human animal with the potential to grow into a human being. Proof: consider the human babies left in the wilderness, grown there, and then captured by someone, and brought into a civilized society. They all have shown to have grown as animals. The older they were when captured, the harder they could learn to behave as human beings.
Every person is born illiterate, cultureless, and uncivilized. It takes much education to turn the human animal into a human being, and often this is not fully accomplished. Even then, it is the individual's choice as to whether to behave as a human being or not.
Birds and bonobo chimps walk on two feet; apes, dogs, and elephants are conscious; and every animal species has its own language and culture. The only thing that is exclusively human is one's impartial judgment upon which one's behavior must stand. The less just a person is, the less of a human being he/she is.
I make a distinction between human being and human animal, and behavior is the difference. You are a human being if you behave as a human being must, you are a human animal if you don't. In my judgment, those who deliberately behave sub humanly, deliberately give up their human rights.
DATED: 9 October 2000
NOTE: The article above is from "Thus Speaks Zarathustra", a 4-volume book (presently not available) by Behrooz Bassim, MD. This book is a 21st century sequel to Nietzsche's 19th century masterpiece. Other pages from it on the internet are:
Abortion
Artificial
Color & Flavor
Capitalism
Civility
Darwin
Was Right So Was LaMarck
Democracy
or Isocracy
Etymology
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God,
Who?
Guns
in USA
Homosexuality
Honesty
Me
Intelligence
Monetary,
A Unique Unit, A unique
Particle
Physics, Grand Spectrum
Plight
of the Mice
Politician,
The American
Race
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Sermon
Sham
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Soul
Is Mind
Unidirectional
Competition
Universal
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Universal
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