For thousands of years, Sapiens and more so the male side of them, aspired to play actively the role of God here on earth, and to regulate according to their imagination all relations between all men, between all women, and between the two genders, separating them according to men's powers and wishes.
Religions were created and theocracy got elevated, dominating social laws and rules, with all different monotheistic or other denominations and sects. All using the same imagination in enacting or asserting God's attributed desires. One of the major rules attributed to God and adopted by all constitutions and judiciary legislations was and still is murder and the killing of others, intentionally, accidentally individually or collectively.
Exceptions to these as in wars were always exempted, and in our modern times war crimes are defended by all rules and powers behind them, even in the most advanced democracies. But individual crimes are still considered as some of the gravest and most punished by Godly or civil laws. Maybe confirming the famous Stalin words, "The killing of one individual is a grave crime, while the killing of thousands is a statistical affair".
As in the past few months and even years, and more so with every election year here in America, we see the debate about abortion rise and ignite between all types of accusers and defenders, but if we think it correctly, we could reach the decision that the alleged atrocity and the labeling of murder doesn't actually stick, except for the Godly playing pretense.
Different societies in the country, as elsewhere throughout the world, give a living human being his or her legal status, his or her name, his or her social position only after the moment of birth and never before. I still have to see one legislation that admits a 10, 15 or 20 weeks old foetus in her mother's womb any official status or even a name. It is strictly still a matter between the mother, possibly her parents and partner on one side and God and his techniques to instill life in it and make it functional on the other side.
We even in most cases call it "it" and not really he or she. The officialdom doesn't recognize this it entity, at least not until it's born, and out breathing the same combination of oxygen and nitrogen we all do. The central nervous system of any foetus does not begin to evolve or start controlling basic bodily functions until the foetus is at least five months old, before that it has no consciousness.
A foetus that dies of natural causes in his mother's womb, and sometimes killing the mother with it, isn't necessarily caused by God's wrath, or any divine interference, so let's not mix theology with our human evolution and daily life here on earth, moral rules are evolved social rules, and all of it is a human business. So why in God's name do we act so aggressively promulgating the fiction that aborting a foetus is a crime, punishable by the harshest methods imagined by humans and attributed to God.
Wouldn't common sense dictate that we take care of murders and murderers who kill recognized people, individually or en mass, or people under occupation, and even entire populations, and all the atrocities taking place every day, due to planned policies, in so many places of our globe, and leave the judgment and punishment of aborted foetuses to God himself and the mother carrying it. And it could be here in this life, or in the next one as the Almighty might dictate. Why do we have to play his part and judge and condemn in his place, trying to execute ourselves what we assume to be his wishes.
This lie, carried out mostly by men, of forbidding women abortions in some special cases, date back historically to the origins of religions. But was never such a big issue, nowadays and again in election years, it becomes the slogan of most pseudo religious, Godly right wingers, who want to dominate societies and women for their pure domination and running the show and political demagogy. Whereby every other argument would be harshly condemned and put down, even by force, all of course in the name of God and our own interpretation of his institution of justice.
My as always many thanks to all my esteemed readers.
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