So Muslims murdering an entire race of people in cold blood is a "cultural thing...."
Yes, the killers believe that for infidels and [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth]s, this is even the right and moral thing to do.
And women having abortions is not a "cultural thing?"
On no, it
is a cultural thing.
It is the culture of death, spoken of by both the the late John Paul II and American President George Bush.
And if a fetus is nary but a blood clot, it is the right and moral thing to do as well, especially if the goal is to free a woman away from her biology.
I think that they both have to do with cultures, considering that not everything about a culture is positive.
Calling something positive or negative involves exercising moral judgment, doesn't it? Are we really ready to go there?
The cultural norm in the West is the idea that women can control their fertility, having the number of children they want to at the time when they want to.
As I have already stated on these threads, yes, for 50 to 60 million people it is not normally a case of life versus death, but of life versus inconvenience.
I could be wrong -maybe it is only 30 million.
The cultural norm in the West is that stay-at-home moms are out of fashion, and that women must be able and ready to contribute to the support of their families, and even to be the sole support of their families.
Forgive me, as a male, for having missed the importance of the fashion statment to the female psyche of this generation.
Me bad.
When women find they are unable to live up to this cultural norm, some, not all, may have abortions.
My recollection is that the some that have opted for the legal abortion option in America is in the range of 50 to 60 million abortions.
Maybe it is only 30 million. Out of a population of 300 million, of which the female half would be 150 million, this is definitely a part of the cultural norm.
The solutions vary:
- encourage abstinence (or periodic abstinence for the married.)
NFP, and fidelity to marital vows, in Catholic terms...
- make safe methods of birth control available and affordable
.
As if a rubber is outside of the budget of the typical American? For less that the price of a beer at a pub, anyone can buy enough condoms to satisfy even a large libido for the entire evening.
- make it easier for women who do have children at inconvenient or financially stressful times of life by providing convenient, inexpensive child care; flexible work hours or job sharing, telecommuting, etc.; educational grants or loans, etc.
For sure, children can be a major inconvenience-much more than 50-60 million decision on behalf of Americans have considered them to be worth.
For those women that consider the fetus to be tissue however, this is simply not a moral question anynmore than liposuction would be and, outside of morality of the thing, there would be no abortion problem per se. there is a problem with low birth rates, but this is a matter of an economic and cultural concern, rather than morality.
For those women, however, that
do consider a fetus, or an embryo, to be a vital, human life, to the extent that they would even consider having an abortion anyway, they have become so morally compromised as to be make the question moot.
There is a fourth option of course, which is already playing itself out, and that would be that the ovaries of average American woman are rapidlly shrivelling with the advancement of years. Just as the murder and crime rates are now being solved with the declining numbers of young males prone to such behavior, so too will the abortion rate decline as the population of women of child-bearing years likewise shirvels and dies.
This is just the simple demographics of the matter.
Unless the young jihadi women and women of other cultures start to admire (and emulate) Western liberal society as much as American liberal society admires and values those of the jihadis, within the problem of the abortion rate lies its own solution.
The culture that choses to abort itself, whether by abortion or by birth control or by spending one's life force over the pages of ones favorite inappropriate contentographic site, etc., etc.;
the culture that chooses not to procreate, chooses its own death.
It is all very rational as to why Americans-and Canadians and Europeans, and Japanese and Australians, etc., etc. - would chose to abort the next generation. The wealth normally that is rolled over into sustaining that next generation is leading to an unprecedently luxurious lifestyle in these countries. To have children will certainly
inconvenience this lifestyle.
Women especially in this society are enjoying a prestige a wealth and a sense of their own power unlike any other female segment of any society in any place or in any time in all of recorded history. Freed from their own biology, there is now such promise in creating wonderful pages for their own biography. As has never, ever been the case before, women are using this freedom.
Unfortunately though, that this freedom and this power and the prestige- (all very admirable things by the way)- have only come about with Babylonish harlot becoming so wonderfully drunk on the blood of the Innocents.
But as long as a fetus is merely a blood clot, as medical science prove to us, any question of morality really need not enter the picture. It's all just Economics 101- nothing that a little largesse from a big brother patriarchal government can solve, or a more generous student loan, or....
