by Diana Isham
A note to you, the Reader:
I was listening to a talk radio show one morning wherein the three commentators were discussing a womans ‘choice’ on whether to have an abortion or not.
I really wanted to call in and share my thoughts with them but was unfortunately unable to do so at that time, so I shared my thoughts later via the following, now somewhat revised e-mail which I addressed to ‘Bab’s’ as she was the most outspoken of the three commentators.
Dear Bab’s,
We are daily bombarded with this question and I personally am amazed that it is even a question at all. I would like to share a childhood experience that has been seared into my mind that SHOULD, but probably will not, put this question to rest…
I was somewhere between the ages of 7 and 9 years old when I and my family visited some close friends of ours. I and 2 of my friends and their cousin were out by the neighbors pigpen. Inside was a sow that had recently given birth to at least 8 very cute little piglets. They were all seemingly very healthy, very cute, and running all over the place. We were disarmed by their cuteness and just HAD to get our hands on them and hold them so we proceeded to catch the cute, wriggling, squealing little creatures.
All of a sudden the mother, who had been laying there calmly nursing her babies, stood up and began squealing and grunting.
She then began stepping on and squishing every piglet in her path. She also began rolling others up the wall, angrily squishing the breath out of them with her snout!
**In that particular moment my youthful, inexperienced mind was unable to grasp or comprehend what was happening. I saw it but my mind did not grasp the fact that she was actually killing them until a short time later when the very angry owner came and yelled at us for ruining his chances of raising and selling them at the market.
I was horrified when reality struck and I realized that our touching the piglets had set off this awful scene.
Needless to say, I never forgot what happened and have since come to realize that there are lessons to be learned about the unmistakeable differences between Pigs and Human Beings:
1. TYPICAL MATURE PIGS (and their less mature offspring) are basically mindless creatures that do not act or make their choices through REASONABLY intelligent thought processes.
MATURE HUMANS (and even their less mature offspring) on the other hand are typically or basically the Highest forms of intelligence on the face of the earth AND MOST OF THEM ARE FOR THE MOST PART — SEMI-CAPABLE OF INTELLIGENT REASONING!
2. A typical MATURE PIG will not think but will act out in typical PIG fashion when given typically stressful or unusual circumstances. (A good example would be to either kill, push away, or ignore their runts or imperfect offspring.)
A typical, MATURE HUMAN BEING (and even most immature ones) would at first, have all kinds of questions about their (perfect or imperfect) offspring. Then they would typically consider the MORAL consequences of aborting their (perfect or imperfect) offspring.
I AM NOT SAYING THAT THERE ARE NO NECESSARY ABORTIONS…
My oldest sister had a tubal pregnancy that threatened both hers and the baby’s life. Abortion in this case, was unquestionably NECESSARY as the child had no chance whatsoever for survival and the mother would very possibly also have lost her life.
And I am fully aware that pregnancy through rape and incest sometimes threatens the lives of even very young or handicapped girls and others whose bodies and/or mental stability and/or maturity levels renders them to weak to handle a pregnancy. Abortion in such cases, is heartbreaking but very often necessary.
THERE SHOULD OTHERWISE BE NO QUESTION WHATSOEVER, ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT TO ABORT OUR BABIES FOR THE SAKE OF THEIRS OR OUR CONVENIENCE!!
THE REAL QUESTIONS WE NEED TO BE ASKING OURSELVES ARE:
ARE WE HUMAN BEINGS, GIVEN INTELLIGENCE BY GOD WHO HOLDS US ACCOUNTABLE AND RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR ACTIONS? OR ARE WE MINDLESS SWINE WHOSE OFFSPRING ARE DISPOSABLE ACCORDING TO CONVENIENCE?
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