An abortion starts in the majority of cases with the simple notion that the desires, wants and needs of the individual are the highest consideration possible. The view of Man (the term being generically used to include man and woman) as the highest attainment of existence is a foundational principle of Humanism. Herein we find Man as the ultimate source of value. For the Humanist there are no, and can never be any, absolute values. Wherever there are two or more Humanist in agreement, there is a value to be found. Whenever there is an individual Humanist there is a right to be found. And in all cases these values and rights are relative to those who are framing them.

Humanism defines Man as the true Subject. With Man as the true Subject, when he views the world, he finds himself objectified in nature. Man sees himself and only himself in nature. Religion, for the Humanist, becomes a matter of Man seeing himself objectified in Nature and then, incorrectly, not recognizing himself as Subject. Instead, Man postulates the existence of a God to explain what is really his own objectivity in Nature. Seen correctly, however, as the true Subject, Man is all that Humanism needs to develop an understanding of the world and nature.

Karl Marx, thanks to a 70-year period in the 20^th Century, is perhaps one of the best known Humanist. For Marx, Man is a part of Nature; Man senses nature, shapes it and finds himself objectified in it. Nature is part of Man's essence, a part of his reality. As Man and Nature interact, that is, as Man works on the objects of the external world, Man finds himself objectified there. This self-objectification is the result of Man's need for nature. His existence and his life have become dependent on his working on the external world, i.e. on Nature. This work, or labor, is Man's reality, and ultimately the source of Man's alienation.

Marx, seeing in Man the highest attainment of value, view's a man's labor as producing a part of himself, a part of his very essence, in the external world. When that product of labor is used by that same man for his own support, for his own life, then that separated portion of his own essence is returned. But when that man labors, objectifies himself in a product of labor, and then sells that product of labor as a commodity to another man, then he has alienated himself from "himself". And if that same man begins selling his labor to produce these same commodities for another man, then he is alienated not only from himself, but from other men as well. This then is in essence, the concept of alienation.

Specifically for Marx, Man in his current setting is alienated from the product of his labor, from the act of his labor, and from his own human nature. "The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him but to the object" and so "it means the life which he has conferred on the object confronts him as something hostile and alien."("The Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts of 1844")

Let's be clear and honest in this discussion, Pro-Choice is not about a woman's rights. Pro-Choice is about a worldview moving quickly to it's extreme. Seldom in history do we get a lesson as valuable as we have with the collapse of Communism and the discrediting of that variant of Humanism. Yet Humanism lives. As communism was an extreme worldview politically and economically, so Pro-Choice is an equally extreme worldview morally.

Can any right thinking person believe that the fetus causes pregnancy? Here we have the allocation of responsibility to the unborn child and the absolving of responsibility from the individual adult. Is this justice or the desperate attempt to demagogue a discredited worldview? The fetus is not a responsible agent. Only the most debased thinking can believe that the fetus is to blame for the pregnancy. Yet this type of debased thinking is what happens when we trade in the search for God for the god within. Humanism is just a return to the multiple gods of antiquity. With Man as the highest form of existence, then each individual or each individual, private crusade can take on the aura of moral respectability.

Christianity teaches that Man is a created being, and he is created in his Creator's image. As a created being, Man is indelibly stamped with the higher value of his Creator in whose image he is made. This is a value that transcends our physical and finite existence; this is the value in each and every human life. Christianity also teaches that Man is a responsible moral agent. That he is accountable "morally" for his action.

Both of these lessons are learned in the first book of the Bible, Genesis.

Man is a created being and has value beyond his physical elements. He is more than the evolutionist would like him to be, unique from the long parade of single cell to multi-cell, invertebrate to vertebrate progression up the plant and animal lines. He has the essence of his Creator in him. A nature that is spiritual as well as physical.

There are a couple of ways that you know this is a solid argument. First, by the arguments of the opponents of an anti-abortion stand, as seen above in the comments of Eileen McDonagh. The opponents argue that the mother has choice and the mother's life carries all value. Why? The only reason is that she is autonomous. The mother alone is fully existent. She has physical viability, just like any other aspect, plant or animal, in nature. Their argument depends on degrading the person to the level of an animal, to essentially arguing the lack of value to human life. You can have groups like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) who champion animal rights, but who are Pro-Choice when it comes to the unborn. Animals have physical presence, they are autonomous and so have the same ability to attain "rights" as you and I.  Hence animals have more value than the unborn human child.

Only in Christianity are there special values associated with Man, values which are applied to all individuals. Man alone in creation has a spiritual nature. A nature that must be considered beyond the mere physical. With a spiritual nature, can you even begin to talk about abortions by trimester or any other physical development criteria? Man is unique from conception and has value unrelated to his physical potential.

The second argument I want to make is that Man alone is morally responsible. He is a moral agent and is held responsible for his actions. Can this be any clearer then the example of the Garden where Man was cast out for his actions, though he clearly tried to blame God, Eve, and the Serpent.

It's important to set-up this moral position to contrast with the Pro-Choice position that we have seen here. Which is the more righteous argument, that an unborn child is the responsible agent in a pregnancy. Or that the individual, the mother, is the morally responsible agent.

Second, there must be a complete ban on all federal funding for abortion.  Not one tax dollar should be spent on abortion funding of any kind.  If abortion is a choice then the tax payer should have a choice too!

Finally, there should be a new civil rights amendment to the U.S. Constitution protecting the rights of the unborn.  This amendment will be explained more fully under the Judiciary section, but even if we must accept the fringe arguments of rape, incest and a mother's health this amendment must pass to stop abortion on demand.

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