The right to life or the right to choose?

It appears that the Roe vs. Wade debate is back in the public arena since the leak from sessions of the Supreme Court justices. The way the issue has been framed makes it seem that a person must choose one or the other. Those who believe a woman should have a choice about the baby in her womb emphasize the right to choose. Those who are against abortion emphasize the right to life.

Well, I believe in both: the woman’s right to choose and the baby’s right to life! Ido not think that is a contradiction.

A woman has the right to choose whether or not she will engage in behavior that may result in her having a baby. Once she makes the choice to proceed with that which could result in pregnancy, the baby has a right to life. That way both have their rights: she, the right to choose and the baby, the right to life.

Never should a person living in a civilized society be given the right to kill. It seems to me that the honest way to frame the debate is the right to life or the right to kill. When properly stated, there is no debate!

There are those who would argue that the baby in the womb is not a person. The truth is that it is a human life in the early stage of development, a process that is not complete physically until the teenage years. If the baby in the womb is not a human being, what is it? Some would say that it is a fetus. What is a fetus? Is it not the first stage in the development of a human being, something that will take sixteen years, give or take? If not considered a fetus until eight weeks, then the baby is in the prefetus stage, a human nonetheless.

It is telling how a pregnancy is framed when it comes to criminal law. I recently read in the news about an individual being responsible for the death of a pregnant woman as a result of an accident. The charge against that person was causing the death of two people. That has been the case in other states when there was a homicide of a pregnant woman. Why then is a baby in the womb victimized by abortion not considered a person?

Since our national motto is “In God We Trust,” it would be well to see what God had to say about the baby in the womb. We read this in Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed thee in thy mother’s womb.” That’s right: abortion is destroying a work of God.

Yes, women have a right to choose whether they will engage in a certain behavior; babies have a right to life. I believe in both!