To abort or not to abort, that is the question.

Given the recent news in the local media regarding the peaceful-protests at the Albury "Fertility Control Clinic", which the media have painted in a total wrong light, I thought I might write my own piece on the topic.

I have not always been a "pro-lifer". In fact, when I was in my late-teens, thinking that I was educated enough to form my own opinion on abortion, I was pro-choice. A womans body is her business, and if she doesn't want something growing inside of her, she has every right to have it removed, right? Wrong!

Almost anyone you ask will have a stance on abortion - either for or against - but it is not often you will find someone who doesn't care either way. The problem with this however is that unless people undertake their own research, abortion remains a pretty vague topic.

No one tells you how an abortion is carried out. More or less, a picture is painted of a Doctor simply "removing" something, not killing a human life. How can killing ever be just?

There is a scary culture rife among those in Gen-Y particularly who see abortion merely as another means of contraception as though you can rely on abortions if you forget, or simply can't be bothered, to use a condom or take the pill. Young women don't grasp the serious nature of abortion and the impacts it has on their emotional and physical health. Some think that it is such a simple process, comparable to putting on a condom, that you can book in for an abortion every couple of months to have the unwanted foetus removed.

Those are of course all terms used by pro-choice campaigners to not show off the dark side of abortion. For starters, the "unwanted foetus" is actually a human being in its earliest, and most vulnerable, part of life, and it is never simply "removed" - it is killed. Murdered.

If you were to find out that your parents wanted to abort you, how much more would you value your life? How much more would you be against abortion, for if you were aborted, you wouldn't be reading this, you wouldn't have the life you live - you would not exist. This goes against nature, for human life begins at the time of conception.

Is a cake still a cake when it isn't yet cooked? Well, not exactly a cake, but the early stages of one - it has the key ingredients which when put together harmoniously, a cake is "born" from the oven. Cakes don't just "appear", they need to be made, and that never happens by some bizarre mistake, for if you put in too much or not enough flour, it won't work.

A human is not just a mistake, but a work of art - God's art - the basic ingredients being two human beings - one male, one female - and a handful of different human fluids, combined together the right way. If you leave the egg out of the cake, it won't work, so too if there is no egg in the female human, the future human life won't work.

But if you're not religious, or don't believe in God at all, then who cares what the views of a bunch of believers is! But you must care, because though you may not be of the same view that human life begins at conception, it is still a fact. Just like you may reject the notion of gravity, doesn't mean the laws do not apply to you because you don't believe in it. The entire world would collapse!

Society, too, will collapse if everyone were to stop believing in God and doing what they see to be best. "I can't support another child" is one of many reasons people use to justify having an abortion. Well, I don't like the look of your face, does that mean I can kill you? No, that is quite absurd!
"That man killed an innocent person, so let's kill him!" but have you never heard the saying "two wrongs don't make a right"? Who are we to decide who is to live, who is to die? That goes from the youngest people - those growing inside their mothers - through to the oldest living person, and every variation in between - murderers and good decent people. Every life is unique, every human is unique, and only God has the right to choose how and when we die.

As time wears on, people will be educated even less about abortion, that eventually the world will get itself into a terrible state where parents can kill their unborn child just because they are the wrong gender or have the wrong shade of hair. It could get scarier yet, governments could choose who will live and who will not even get that chance, and those who do get to live will be genetically engineered.