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Freedom...

I just wrote my last undergrad exam last night and feel somewhat cathartic that it is over. I feel that now I can write and read without obligation literature that I want to read. And to cultivate my fiction portfolio, I asked my wife to recommend three books to read. They were Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Dostoevsky's The Idiot, and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (note: these are not her top three novels, just novels recommended for me).

This post is selfish in nature (aren't all posts though?) in that I am now accountable to read these books. Hopefully I will be posting about them in the future.

Is abortion okay in cases of rape and/or incest?

I had a recent discussion with a young gentleman on the abortion issue and heard the often used argument in favor of abortion: I don't like abortions, but if it is a case of rape or incest, then I think it is okay.

Is it okay?

Why is it that abortion is okay in these two cases? One answer is that it reminds the mother of a horrible past, and it isn't her fault that she got pregnant. Therefore, in order to help her "move on" in her life, an abortion seems like a viable option. At this point, one should empathize with the victimized mother-to-be because this is certainly a traumatic and unfortunate circumstance. No one deserves to have his/her personal freedoms infringed upon by someone else.

However, emotions aside, the argument goes like this: If someone reminds you of a horrible past, then it is okay to kill him/her.

Is this okay? Do people kill other people because of a bad memory? Perhaps some people do, but this is wrong, and it is a bad argument. This innocent human being in the embryo/fetus stage should not have his/her rights infringed upon by someone else because of a horrible event that happened in the past. There are many children that have been born from victims of rape and incest. Would it be alright to kill these children?

I hope and pray that your answer is "no."