How much do you know about the right to life?

August 2022-09-12 21:34:21

Abby Johnson, who recently saw the "Unplanned" movie prototype challenge the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and the Planned Parenthood Commission in court, shares early days from the perspective of a professional who has worked for Planned Parenthood in the United States for 8 years. The whole process of abortion and the concept of man.

"From the fertilized egg, a unique DNA that contains all the life information of a person has been formed, and that DNA is the person." (This is a scientific explanation of the person)

As a generation born in the 1980s, I think every one of us was born out of "family planning". Many parents may have sacrificed more than one child for our survival, and it is strange that parents do not feel any discomfort about this issue.

As far as I know, the current abortion rate in China is as high as 13 million per year, and this does not include the number of abortions in private clinics or medical abortions. And China has the highest abortion rate in the world.

The one-child policy has changed our perception of life. Even if the second child is released now, it has not changed everyone's idea of ​​eugenics.

Prenatal and postnatal care is an interesting concept. It allows us to determine one thing at the cognitive level, that is, a child must reach a certain level, a level that is absolutely permitted by the external environment, before it can be born, otherwise, the child's parents have the right to wipe out the child's life. Go, and be reasonable.

In this way, a person's life is divided into good and bad. It is not born because he is an individual, but needs to meet a certain standard in order to be born. In other words, a person becomes a product, Our survival does not depend on our being individuals, but on whether we are "qualified".

Humans are rational, so we can think, but rationality tends to push us to rationalize the less human and justify our actions with a set of self-consistent logic, such as personal freedom, financial burden, and so on.

What is life? In fact, very few people really seriously think about this issue.

We are used to being labelled: good people, bad people, rich people, poor people, beautiful people, not beautiful people, healthy people, disabled people, people in mother's womb, people after birth.

But when we think carefully about what a human being is. The standard we measure is often placed in the prefix of people. The concept of human beings is very vague.

Just like many years ago when college students were still scarce, a college student sacrificed to save a drowning farmer, and many people felt that it was not worth it. There are many reasons to think it's not worth it, but the most essential is that people see different prefixes for two people without seeing their final defining noun: "person".

When what we really see is the label in front of the person, does our standard of judging the value of the person change?

Would we admire him more for being a successful man? Are we going to ignore his presence because he's a sweeper? Are we going to tell him just because he's disabled, you don't deserve to live in this world?

I think most people would say: no. But in fact, many people are doing it in their hearts.

For different people, our standards have changed, and for those who are still in the womb, our standards may be the harshest.

If a three-year-old child is disabled because of an accident, no parent thinks he is useless and directly kills him because they know he is a child. But if he is a fetus still in the womb, seven months old, but the result of the test may be congenital disability, maybe 80% of parents are already considering abortion. But what's the difference? Just because he didn't see what this kid looked like, could it be said that he was just a mass of cells and he didn't feel it?

No! They have!

Any woman who has given birth or was pregnant can tell you how the child yawns, kicks, sleeps, and smiles in the belly. They are people, not a mass of cells.

Perhaps the most wonderful and tightest connection in this world is the mother and the child in her belly. No relationship can replace the intimate connection of one person growing in another with two hearts beating at the same time.

But the rationalization of abortion and the fear of the future have made many mothers hear a voice, a false voice, a voice that tells her that this child will be the complete opposite of you and your future life.

When a mother believes in this voice and believes that a life in her body is contrary to her own life, she may ignore the most intimate relationship and choose to stand on the opposite side of the fetus to consider her own decision. .

And all this, thanks to the propaganda of the whole era.

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Unplanned quotes

  • Renee: Do you know what P.O.C stands for?

    Abby Johnson: ...Products of Conception?

    Renee: No... Pieces of Children!

  • Cheryl: Non-profit is a tax status, not a business model.