This business about "Abortion"

[Maxmars]

An interesting tidbit on the news is that the majority of abortions are done using a pill, if this is the way of the future, namely abortion through drugs, then I foresee the act as becoming a very private personal matter if these pills are easy to obtain, such as over-the-counter. Unless Big Brother red states with strict anti-abortion laws begin to surveil drug stores and the like, but just like any other illegal drug, they too are easily had.

I think any proposition about banning abortion outright is a fast-aging fantasy.  I imagine the authoritarian traditionalists like to clutch at the idea like a morality cudgel, a social 'lever.'

But as technology changes and younger generations face new social realities, the 'wisdom' of this kind of "control" of the human condition will simply render itself extinct.

And like I said before, being inclined to value the lessons of the past, I am conflicted in this regard. 

I suspect that choosing to protect one person (save an abused innocent) after the fact is not an entirely satisfactory and suitable justification to destroy the 'literally' innocent (before their birth.) 

I reject the license to 'arbitrate' a persons' right to live based upon transient, externally imposed, 'metrics,' and cannot divorce my compassion for the unborn circumstance - choosing one over another with any casual ease.  We were all 'unborn' once.

But I also refuse the idea that any personal feelings I might have should bear precedence over the life situation of a stranger, sight unseen.  I do not envy the circumstance, and know that were I in their shoes, I would reserve the moral authority to make my own decision, and likely refuse the judgements of someone outside the situation.  

Call it murder?  That's hyperbole of the activist order - relevant only as an external imposition. 

But such hyperbole manifests frequently on both sides of the argument. 

Calling a person "unviable" seems basely inhumane, considering there are many, dying, aging, or ill, who fit that description, and thus become equal candidates for "summary elimination."  I'm sure they would make all efforts to refuse calling that "murder."

Given how personal the condition, the state coming to be 'within' this argument is tragic.  I would call it 'activism,' 'politics,' and 'marketing.' Enter the "show."

Whatever we call it, it is undeniably profitable.  Where there is profit ... notions of 'humanity' will almost always be tossed aside as "irrelevant and inconsequential," or characterized as repugnant 'ideology.'