.............legal murder...
by Jeremiah T.

      The newest addition to mankind had been waiting nine months for this moment. He didn't know it yet, but he had the potential to affect lives, be a leader, and change the world. He could be a straight "A" student, a college graduate, a success. But this would be later in life; right now he was experiencing the sensation of air on his skin. He prepared to take his first breath, fingers twitching in excitement; there was a sharp blow on the back of the head, and then, darkness. He fell limp on the operating table, damned from the start. He was now an it- #37849-908 to be precise; a mere mess on the counter needing to be swept in the plastic garbage sack. #37849-908 was the victim of another legal murder.
      The abortion rights activists go out on a limb and say that they believe in the right to choose. They are not for everyone's right to choose, but for the woman's right to choose. The choice is life or death. The decision is eternal, and, unfortunately, the person who is going to live or die is the one who doesn't have a choice. What if the child was capable of speaking at birth and we could ask them if they wanted to die? Would they really say yes? Many people who support abortion were born before the Roe vs. Wade decision was ever made. What if their mothers had a choice and decided that it was too much of a hassle to have and raise children? We would likely find that most people would be against abortion if they were the ones who would be potentially aborted.
      In a legal abortion, nearly any method of extermination can be used. You may suffocate the embryo, puncture the back of the head, leave the child writhing in pain after a salt injection, or just let it die in a spare room from a lack of heat and nutrition. Suicide is considered a tragedy. Euthanasia, or assistance suicide, is downright illegal. These are major catastrophes, but the victim expresses a definite wish to die. How much more of a loss is an abortion, where the child is slaughtered with neither consent nor condemnation?
      If one person killed another person, he would be sentenced to life in prison and possibly death. If one killed an elderly person, he would be sentenced life in prison and possibly death. The same would apply to the murder of a child, or even the murder of an unborn child, provided the mother wants the child. If the mother does not want the child, no one would necessarily be charged for killing her child. In fact, she can hire someone to murder her child for a modest fee. All she needs to do is to go to the local government funded child-killing center, otherwise known as the friendly abortion clinic nearest you.
      If you want to kill your child, time can be a serious obstacle. For example, if you wait one year until the murder, it is technically considered to be illegal and you will be charged with manslaughter. This is also the case if you wait six months, three days, or even seven hours from the birth. This is because after a child is born, he is generally accepted as a separate being, instead of a thing. However, has the child really developed substantially enough in a few hours to be regarded as something different than it was before birth?
      Abortion is a truly hypocritical right. To have the right to abort is to have the right to kill. Are the scales not slanted if we say it is right to kill one organism, but it is wrong to kill the same organism when it is older? Age is not a qualifying prerequisite for the acceptability of a murder by any standard.
      Perhaps the greatest offense to the public is that while we may all not agree with the philosophy of abortion, every American citizen supports it. Through taxes we sponsor the twenty-first century holocaust; by our silence we become swallowed by the sweeping sea of political correctness.

Jeremiah for President
Campaign Speech #6/....legal murder