Our modern society promotes a free flow of information. Some topics, like hate-material, of course, are excluded. Some other topics are officially permitted, but really just shouted down in any kind of debate.

Out of curiousity, I checked out the Waterloo Student For Life presentation this afternoon. It seemed like lots was said both by the presenter and a very vocal heckler, but ultimately it boils down to a single issue: Whether or not a baby before birth is a human. In one case, it’s a medical procedure, in the other, it’s murder.

I haven’t really had the time to research the whole matter properly and form an opinion, so I can’t and won’t say.

But I do get very frustrated by the amount of the debate that’s just plain appeals to emotion. Is it the child’s right to live or the woman’s right to choose? How come the question isn’t just ‘Do you support legalized abortion?’, rather than ‘Do you support the murder of unborn babies?’ or ‘Do you support medieval ideas about women?’

At the moment, it’s just one more issue that I can close the book on for now. I do know, though, that I could never go to sleep at night having been a doctor involved in an abortion procedure. And it’s more than just the blood.

Mike

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