Monday, June 29, 2020

Why is the focus on protecting human life only about the period before birth?

Today I got to thinking (I'm always thinking, some people say "overthinking"). I got to thinking about the human life / abortion issue. I tend to side with "liberals" on that. I'm not for outlawing it.

I put all of the "value of human life issues" into the same basket; so to speak. Whatever jeopardizes life is similar in my way of thinking.

Lack of laws against abortion can be viewed as jeopardizing life. A border wall that forces children back to places of danger, jeopardizes life. Lack of health insurance jeopardizes life. Poverty can jeopardize life. Overpopulation and environmental degradation can as well. It all seems similar to me.

It just seems like focusing only on protecting life during pregnancy is strange. If one values life, shouldn't it be important after birth as well?

It's true that we can't take all precautions toward protecting life. Life has to go on. People drive cars, thus jeopardizing life. We have other priorities besides just protecting human life against all risk.

It's all in a grey area as far as I am concerned. I guess we just have to do the best we can. It's not always cut and dried.

Then there is the question of when human life begins. During pregnancy, that's a grey area as well. There's early term and late term pregnancy. In nature, it seems like things are basically grey areas.

I guess I'll say this. Wearing a mask is something simple one can do toward reducing a risk to human life.

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