O{There's a consistent feature in mainstream news in America these last two years, all Palestinian-caused violence in the Middle East is described as an attack, all Israeli-caused violence is described as response, retaliation etc.
Once or twice is a ruse, all the time is brainwashing.
If you can frame the debate and choose its terms you win before you begin.
Abortion is argued around two main, dissimilar points, one that life is sacred, that the fifth commandment's injunction against taking a life is violated by abortion, and two, that a woman's body is her destiny, and she should have the final say on medical decisions concerning it. Both these points are presented by their respective sides as being the crux of the argument.
I can remember being stuck in a moving image of procreation as a teenager. There's two people, they have sex, there's a third person. Way down in the cells of the woman there's this seed thing like a bean sprout, then there's a baby. So that the logical place where life begins would be the entering of the ovum's cell wall by the sperm, the tip of it. The first nudge through. Right there.
But that's ridiculous, not to mention the trouble it would cause the Recorder of Beings, because there are millions of penetrated eggs washing through the sewer systems of the world every day, spontaneously, unknown to the mothers involved.
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The thing about the sword of Solomon, the sword he raised above the baby in that famous case, is, he didn't use it.
You can't cut this problem down to the facts, there's a miracle in the middle of it, and you can't take that miracle apart without killing it.
Lives are begun in just this way, yes, but they are begun in the bodies of women. And that's where I go sit on the one side as opposed to the other.
Having an abortion is an extremely serious thing, the decision itself is not cosmetic, or a matter of convenience. But the wrong people are involved. From the get.
That's what needs to change, and certainly if any group is going to decide whether a young woman should abort a living child, and yes that is what it is, it should be a group of women whose wisdom and whose hearts transcend the absurd and dangerous alloy of religion and politics that is the foundation of this debate at the present moment.
It is a women's thing. Not for women in isolation, and not for women who have made a profession of being women, but the female, the mother side of what we are.
I do not believe the men who dominate this question are honest as to their motives, and I believe that that dishonesty has crippled us as a people.}
