Well…is it?   Really, any other argument, point, fact, issue or topic is absolutely irrelevent to the debate as I will demonstrate below.  This divisive, painful and avoided question is both the alpha and the omega of one of the most fundamental defining choices confronting mankind.  Think I am over-stated it or being melodramatic?  Then consider that if the answer is ’yes’, we are condoning (and subsidizing) the gruesome, agonizing murder of the most innocent and helpless of human beings.  If the answer is ‘yes’, we as a society support killing babies.  If it sounds harsh to be put so bluntly, that’s too bad.  Euphemisms like ‘terminating a pregnancy’ allow people to hide from the real question.

On the other hand, if the answer is ‘no’, then there’s no problem and abortion could be fully embraced, even as a form of retroactive birth control.  Why not?  If it’s not murder, then it’s nothing.  Big deal.

But the question needs to be asked and, in discussing the matter, we should not deviate into tangential arguments that are meaningless given the underlying issue.

http://drivenunderground.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/is-it-murder-the-heart-of-the-abortion-issue/

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