Curious. . .

It occurred to me, though probably to many others as well, that the fight on the part of some for reproductive rights is, in reality, a battle for the right to be unproductive, not to reproduce, and to kill the child that is already in the womb as the fruit of a, well, reproductive act.  So, to follow the logic, it is not a cause for reproductive rights (as if anyone were forbidding them from reproducing) but a cause to prevent such.  So much for the logic behind our terminology.  It appears that the problem here is that people want to engage in the reproductive act but they do not want to have to face any consequences -- at least none more difficult than the embarrassment of facing the partner after the act is done (short of sneaking out the door with underwear and shoes in hand).

So also those who claim to be pro-choice are, in fact, decidedly against anyone's choice but their own, patently ignoring that they already made such a choice when deciding whether or not to engage in a, well, reproductive act.  There is a choice that was made long before the need or want for a day after pill or some other means to abort the child already conceived.  Now, some of you might think I am being callous toward those who are victims -- victims of rape or incest.  The reality, agreed by all but hardly mentioned by those who are pro-choice, is that very few abortions are the done by those who are victims of rape or incest -- 1% due to rape and 1/2% due to incest.  98.5% are due to choice -- after a choice had already been made but was now regretted, perhaps solely because it was neither safe nor loving.  But that is not my problem or the problem of the nation as a whole.  We do not exist to give second chances to those who made a choice and then thought better of it --- precisely when that second chance for a choice comes at the cost of the life of another.

So much damage is done by the attempt to relieve those who have made a choice of the consequences of that choice.  Abortion and no-fault divorce are but two of them.  Consequences are what informs and shapes the decisions we make.  It is precisely what happened in Eden.  We ignore the consequences of our choices in order to focus on some presumed benefit -- only to find that the presumed benefit was not without its own cost.  Wisdom is the fruit of the consideration of our choices and the consequences inherent within those choices.  To relieve us of a consideration of those consequences, to offer us an out, is to deprive us of the very wisdom that God provides through those choices.  Without the consequences, we are left prisoners of our desires and held captive by our whims.  This is surely what we want but it is the most unhealthy thing that could happen to us -- a people tainted by a choice first made by those who refused to consider the consequences.  Such are the lies behind the desire for reproductive rights that have nothing to do with reproduction and everything to do with preventing it or killing what has been born of the reproductive act or of a cause that is labeled pro-choice when it is really pro-do over -- give me a chance to redo what I did by eliminating not the act but its consequence.  Such is the mark of how far we have fallen and how easy it is for us to justify just about anything to get what we want.