In Case You Missed the Last Post...

I know I said the previous post was the last one, but hey, I have trouble with goodbyes.

For the last time:

My new blog is right here.

Bye-Bye, Blogger

I hate to say this, (not really) but Pro Rege Papers will no longer be hosted or serviced by Blogger. While I love Blogger's design and quick-and-easy usage; I needed a little more.

My new site, prorege.org, is my own, and I am therefore independent. The actual blog is at http://www.prorege.org/papers01. I hope you enjoy the new format, which includes trackback capabilities.

The blogging software I'm using is WordPress. WordPress is a great blogging tool that has many really cool features, like automatic backup, easy managment of posts, etc., wysiwyg editor, categorizing ability, comment updater, and many, many other things that Blogger doesn't come close to.

I hope you like the new blog that includes all the previous posts and comments. Feel free to make any suggestions.

Abortion

Axinar wrote a post about abortion in his blog. It started when I said that Andrea Yates’ killing of her five children was not an insane act, but a desperately wicked act. Then I said that, “there are many, many, mothers who kill their own children, and no one calls them insane. In fact, the government even helps them. It's called abortion: the now legal murdering of a mother's children by her willing consent.” That comment got Axinar going, and he published a lengthy response to me about abortion. Here is my answering comment (which ended up being as large as his post):

Are you saying that I quote the Bible a lot, or that I'm solid in my position, or that I present the evidence and (if I do say so myself) win the argument?

BTW, your link to the Marie Claire article is invalid. If you could get that working, I could understand your points more.

Some women have "post-partum depression" where they are fairly dehabilitated, but there are very few women who are unable to take care of their baby. So you are questioning the intelligence of those women that regretted having an abortion by saying that they didn't remember the circumstances.

"Lifelong grinding poverty?" That's an extreme generalization. There are many single mothers that survive easily. They can also marry. Besides, with today's government welfare and private charity, very few people are "grindingly poor."

"Health risks staggeringly greater than abortion?" Not with today's technology and techniques.

"Bringing more humans into an already over-crowded world." You're talking about cities, Western Europe, China, and Japan. In every other part of the world there's room for more people. There is such a surplus of food that the prices are so low that farmers have to rely on government subsidies.

If the mother does not want the child, (or if it was an "accidental" pregnancy) adoption is a wonderful way to give unwanted children a home with parents who can't have any, or want more children.

Your answer "no" to those questions is purely opinion.

"Do we consider a miscarriage a death by natural causes?"

Yes, we do. Once the sperm and ovum unite, that is a human being. It is very small, but it is a human being. If it is human being and it miscarries, then that is a death by natural causes, rather than man-made causes in abortion.

"Do we name a miscarriage?"

Yes, we do. My mother miscarried two babies, Jonah and Jirah. Babies were traditionally named, even if they died. Many mothers still do today.

"Do we cremate or bury a miscarriage?"

In ceremony some people do. Of course it is optional, but it doesn't really matter.

"Do the cells a woman passes in a miscarriage constitute a human being?"

Yes, they do. They contain all the genes for a human being. They comprise a human being, even though he/she is very small.

The cells cannot survive outside the mother's womb, they need to be protected, just as a little child cannot be expected to balance his finances to provide food and shelter for himself. But the cells are still fully human.

"Legalized abortion SAVES lives - the lives of [single mothers, etc.]"

So you're saying that if you have a child you're destined to die early? That's just false.

"...countless millions who either aren't ready or have absolutely no business being parents in the first place"

In the first place, those who aren't ready (or "who have no business" trying) to have a baby should not even have sex. In the second place, if the person has a baby but doesn't want it, adoption is a perfectly valid option, as I explained before.

Nazism as Opposed to Conservativism

Two of the favorite appellations leftist liberals use to describe conservatives are “NAZI!” and “FASCIST!” In doing this, liberals show that they don’t want to pay attention to history. They just blurt out what sounds interesting and incriminating against Bush and Republicans. They don’t examine the sharp contrasts between Nazis and Conservatives, Hitler and Bush, Germany in the 1930s and America in 2006. The fact that they (and the MSM) are even permitted to rant and rave about this is proof in itself that we are not equal to the Nazis. We are far from the condition Germany was in under Hitler.

Fascists, Nazis, and practically every other totalitarian dictatorship stifle all dissent to their regimes. They take control of all media outlets and sources of information. They take over and/or direct the companies to do their will. They carry out their agenda with brutal force and intimidation. They use the military for operations on the people, as well as to expand their domain. They consolidate all control of government in a central location. They create a one-party system with fake, staged elections.

Does any of this sound like the Bush administration or conservativism? Just because they tapped phone calls and Internet records (which is not very kosher, I’ll admit) looking for terrorists doesn’t mean that they are Nazis. It means that they overstepped their authority. The New York Times and all the leftist bloggers are free to criticize Bush as much as they want. The Bush administration has not imposed military rule over the country; they have not instituted a secret police; they have not gotten rid of the Democratic Party, they still acknowledge state and local governments.

We have a Constitution that is designed to keep people from taking totalitarian power. But liberals are doing all they can to ignore or “interpret” away those restrains on a central, broad government. One of the main points of conservativism is limited government. Liberals today are working toward socialism, which takes more of our freedoms away and resembles Fascism much more than conservativism. But we don’t call them Nazis, because that would not be completely accurate. (It is also considered and insult, as well. No one who is interested in a sensible discussion should insult the other side wrongly.)

If you disagree with the President, disagree with the President, (so do I on some issues) don’t slander him or characterize him as something he is not. Articulate your thoughts and pay attention to history as you make comparisons. Remember, he is our President, and he deserves respect as such.