RETHINKING MOTHER AND BABY

If we accept that the baby's will to be born is as much a part of the birthing process as the mother's willingness to have a child is, then abortion becomes more of a compact between two spirits and less of a unilateral decision on the mother's part.

Underestimating the presence of the baby's spirit in the birthing decision leads to a fundamental misplacement of the responsibility for that decision, making the mother the final arbiter.

A part of me says that the world is bigger and more complex than that.

An abortion, the curtailing of the pregnancy, can just as much be the spirit of the baby deciding that the time isn't right.

To my mind, that spirit does not choose to enter the corporeal form until the advantages of being born outweigh the disadvantages, as grave as they might be.

Life, as a series of hard knocks, may still be worth learning.

Granted, not everyone will agree with me on this or a lot of things, but my purpose is to probe the boundaries of possibilities and maybe stretch them, rather than watch one more sports event that I don't want to watch anyway.

I think that it's instructive to keep in mind, in the second book of Genesis, that.

"The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.".

That life comes after breath.