Some Wounds Last for Time Immortal

It has been a while since I last posted on a live political issue - about one semester actually and I don't believe that I have done so here on the Blogger since I started posting on this particular page. I've done so on Xanga because I wanted to only write about religious and faith-based issues here.

Proposition 85 will make it illegal for an unemancipated minor to have an abortion until 48 hours after the attending physician is able to notify the minor's parent or legal guardian except in medical emergencies or parental waivers. The minor is able to get a court order waiving this notice based on presentation of convincing evidence that the minor is mature, or that failure to notify would be in the minor's best overall interests. This proposition mandates the physician to keep records stating how many abortions he/she has performed on minors; any violations by the physician results in monetary damages. There are legal consequences if the minor's consent to the abortion is coerced.

Literally: a minor can be authorized to kill another minor; children killing children.

Prayers can be found here.

Look, I know the issue is politically charged; when is an issue in American society not politically charged? I have more difficulty in these issues to argue with fact than with emotions. I do not not know how to emotionally withdraw myself from the argument long enough to have a coherent, factual comeback.

What I think abortion is:

• cowardly - to think that a child is a major problem, therefore a woman scapegoats a blameless child. The child is not the issue at hand, it is the mother who decides to be impure, to make it a financial convenience for herself, who gives into the social pressures from her family, or the father.
• murder - life begins when the soul begins, both of which begin with conception. Therefore a mother is killing her child.
• cheating/theivery - it robs siblings, period cohorts, family relatives, etc from getting the chance to know this child; it acts against God's will and plan for the child's life. Who is the mother to get in the way of the Lord's plan?
• evil - it counteracts God's will. It's full of death, loss, grief, pain; none of which can be consoled or healed by time. It haunts the mother, and later, those who become aware of the person they were refused to become acquainted with.
• making the rest of us born after 1973 survivors.
• a topic that I keep revisiting since I found out 3 years ago about my brother. In a need to make him human, to add dignity to the life that was taken from him by our parents, I named him: Joseph. I will not be made quiet on this topic. I will not be silent: emotionally, mentally, vocally, actively. It will never end, unless abortion ends.
• a preemptive strike on a life before "it" has a chance.