Roe v. Wade

Roe v. Wade. Everyone is talking about it today. I truly don’t understand why ending the life of a verified beating heart is such a controversial topic. It seems pretty simple to me. My God-based feelings of course say abortion is wrong, but setting that aside for a moment, it’s illogical just based on science alone.

When someone’s heart stops beating we declare they are dead. That is the singular event that ends a life, right? The brain or lungs or kidneys or legs can stop working and we have medical technology to step in to assist in those functions. But, when the heart stops, the life is over. We have a funeral and we bury or cremate the physical body and that’s that. The heart beat ends, and that triggers us that life is over.

I am going to hope and assume we can all agree to that universal scientific fact.

On the front end, when the heart starts beating, life should be starting. Right? If the heart stopping ends life, then it stands to reason a heart starting begins life. Life begins on heartbeat #1 and ends with heartbeat #__________ (who knows).

Life is life.

An unborn person cannot walk or talk or speak. They are still in the womb growing up — to be old enough to survive in a new environment. A 14-year-old doesn’t typically enroll in college and move into a dorm on campus. They are still growing up — to be old enough to survive in a new environment.  

Many born people cannot walk or talk or speak. But we don’t end their life just because it’s inconvenient to care for them.  

That’s my take.

P.S. You don’t just randomly get pregnant, you know. In most cases you can plan ahead, be responsible and this won’t even be a thing.