It sounds sad I know, but this was inspired by the murder of Doctor George Tiller. No actually, its been a long time in the making. As I read news articles and listen to the talking heads argue back and forth about why abortion should or shouldn't be legal I can't help but wounder at what the right answer is.
I'm creating this blog with the hope of sparking serious Civil, GROWNUP debate. I hope that this isn't to lofty an idea in this era of "written in stone belief". I choose the name Brownism from the what my Grandmother used to call "the since to come in out of the rain" common since by another name, which seems to be lacking from our dealings with one another these days.
Here's the Brownism
Pro-Choice
As I understand it, is the right of the a women to make her own decision about her reproductive freedom. Ranging from how she would prevent pregnancy all the way to how she would terminate pregnancy.
Pro-Life
The position that all life has the inalienable right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness. The belief that life begins at conception and terminating a life before it is born is murder and should be illegal.
Does a woman have a right to terminate her pregnancy? I don't know. Here's what I do know. As a man I have never been nor will I ever be, barring a kidnapping and experimentation by a mad scientist, pregnant. As a man my body will never change because I'm pregnant, I will never run the risk of becoming a single mother nor will I ever risk my life to give birth. Man that's heavy, and makes me appreciate my testicles even more. As a man my DUTY is to take responsibility for my child. DUTY however is a choice, I know at this point someone wants to point out that sex is a choice also. I would have to agree but more on the duty and sex later. Does a woman have the right to choice to terminate her pregnancy is the subject of this discussion. Considering property law answer must be yes. One of the rights of property is the right of disposal. As an owner I have the right to disposal of my property as I please. This sounds like I have just reduced children to the level of a ham sandwich. I haven't, you see we have the right to do to our bodies what we want. Piercing, coloring, altering and changing our sex as we can afford to. So why then is abortion different, because we BELIEVE that life begins at conception. The argument that life begins at conception is flawed and rendered moot by the word BELIEF. Belief is a dangerous human condition that can and has enticed us to do the most uncompromisable deeds to one another. It was a belief that people of African decent had no soul and thus perfect candidates for slaves, It was a belief that German Jews had a conspiracy to rob that nation of it's wealth and sovereignty that lead to the holocaust, it was believed that by killing a Hollywood couple in their home and blaming it on African-Americans that would start a race war, it was a belief that Americans would invade the Holly Land that led to the killing of over 3000 people and it was a belief that led to the killing of Doctor George Tiller. The problem with belief is that it is not based in fact. A belief is conjecture, a feeling that something is real. Sometimes feelings are correct and at other times they are not. We all have had these feeling and have tried to no end to discern when they are right or not. The vast majority of us have decided not to live our lives solely by these feeling because of there unpredictability. We don't belief that the table is solid we KNOW the table is solid because of the evidence that the table itself gives. We cannot easily pass object through it. We belief that the sky is blue because of our perception but the reality is that it's not blue we are wrong to believe so but we do anyway. Now a person that beliefs that life is precious has taken a life, please read that bit again. If life is so precious then why do we still have a death penalty? Why does not every parent less child have people stepping up to be their parents? Why do we kill over a belief? Just some food for thought
