ABORTION IS NOT MURDER

By thinking that every life matters no matter where we find it, we have created a world of paradoxes. Humankind has created our culture; therefore, we are self schooled in the idea that life is somehow sacred that we never really consider any other point of view. Any discussion about taking a life or preserving a life becomes emotional. We end up in world of associated paradoxes; the death penalties, moral groups, abortions to save the life of the mother, death verses quality of life, joy in watching daredevil stunts, not to mention willingness to fight religious wars. Perverse logic grows out of the paradoxes; life is so important the only fitting punishment for taking a life is the death penalty or symbolically eat the flesh and drink the blood of someone we worship.

If behavior is genetic and evolves from adaptation through natural selection, from where does all of this originate? Everyone accepts the idea that our prime instinct is self-preservation. Without it we wouldn’t be. Dawkins and other biologists expanded this concept to preservation of genes. However, this too has paradoxes but we can explain these paradoxes biologically. A mother is willing to sacrifice her life to save the life of her child.  So too is a father, but he can have many children (hundreds) but the mother is limited in the number of children she can have (10 to 20).  A person would prefer to save the life of a brother before he or she would save the life of a cousin. Please not that somewhere in the above sentences, I switched into a paradigm where life is no longer scared but has a calculably biological value.

Individual and legislatures wrongly decides the current abortion issue that is sweeping the country.  The deeply felt belief that abortion couched in the concept that abortion is murdering baby is wrong.  Murder is the intentional taking of a life with malice with or without forethought. To call abortion murder is biologically inaccurate; I have never heard of single abortion performed with malice. It is a matter of “learned selection”. The mother and her doctor decided she would be better off because of it: either socially or medically. Natural selection by adaptation evolved over billions of years while learned selection developed over 2.5 million years with the development of our mentality. The philosopher Herbert Spencer accurately dubbed the essences of evolution as “survival of the fittest”, which applies to both modes of selection thought modified by what we have learned.

Spencer aside, we can explain survival in human terms out of the context of a bestial existence as quality of life. Life is no longer sacred and preserved at any cost but it is a matter of striving for as many people as possible to live as good a life as possible under existing circumstances.  We could leave a paraplegic, a mentally retarded person, or a serial killer to die by lethal injection or rot in prison under the bestial rules of biology—survival of the fittest—in most cases our humanization will not permit us to allow that. It would be immoral. Thus, the same sense of humanization allows us to think of abortion to save the life of a mother as being morally correct. It also means that a woman impregnated by rape does not have to care for and support the product of that rape for the rest of her life if she chooses not to do that. Abortion, as murder, seems to violate our most fundamental sense of morality, which is self-preservation until we look at it as a higher level of morality, which is quality of life. This means that most of us, as humans, have a higher level of morality and want everyone to have the best quality of life possible. This is what being progressive means. In contrast, those who want to conserve the erroneously base sacredness of life at all cost have a bestial sense of morality. That is what being conservative means. Labeling a fertilized egg as a baby so you can call contraception murder is wrong; it is the product of a misguide mind.

This higher level of morality means one life can be sacrificed for another.

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