I think you are very sick and need help if you think murdering innocent babies that CAN AND DO feel what they are put through during abortion…especially 3rd term. You need to educate yourself a little more before you encourage these things. I haven’t seen a sight as sad and devastating as yours ever in my life. You are the most disturbed individual that I have heard of in my life. God will deal with you one day, but I just have one question…AREN’T YOU GLAD YOUR MOTHER DIDN’T ABORT YOU??? According to you, maybe she should have. I’ll bet you make her proud. Your picture is disgusting…that is a life in there. You should google abortion and take a look at some of those innocent babies murdered, tortured, and burned by abortion. Thanks.

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For some reasons, this May must have been the “abortion month on the web”; or whichever way cyber- people want to put it. A number of searches on abortion have been directed on this blog, together with people whom for some reasons still spend time arguing about their theistic arguments stating why abortion for them is simply not right. The thing is, people, if you are going to read this blog and whine how much your god together with your moral package have been offended, please do it elsewhere because there is simply no way that I would ever have to argue with you and your comments because they are simply not within my epistemological framework. The thing is, your arguments and my arguments are incommensurable since they are coming from two different sources, and from there, there is simply no sense for me replying to your thoughts.

To put it simple, lets say you have the Bible, and what I have is Utilitarianism as a moral foundation. Get it?

Why I am pro-choice? Why I wanted to terminate a “life”?

The thing is, the value and meaning of a man’s life vary for every people- across every culture, across every belief system, across every community, and every subjective reality there is. For some women, the notion of having a child despite it being unexpected or conceived unnecessarily could bring forth a utility that they might be able to reconcile with their dispositions. But there are also a significant number of women, who defies the rules of cause and effect, women who simply states in black and white that this is what she wanted to do with her life, and the lapses in judgments and mistakes that may have arisen, hence the conception of a child is something that could not be fully tagged as an occurrence that a woman has to deal-with and accept.

The fact is, people have control over their lives- over the paths that they wanted to take. If decisions in the course of one’s existence will be primarily tainted with emotional bullshits and a dozen more of ad misericordiams, then life would be such a wonderful comedic and romantic story isn’t it? But the fact is, life is not as simple as naive people stating the argument that the life of an aggregate of cell in a woman’s womb is more important that a hundred more utilities that this particular woman could attain without having a child conceived.

I believe that a woman who wanted to take control of her life, despite her lapses, is a woman who will terminate a pregnancy on the first early trimester- a signal of decisiveness and assurance of taking a path that she really wanted to go. Now, if you will have to look on a fetus on the first early trimester, it is but a size of a pea- roughly an inch. Now of course, these pro-life people would exclaim and demand, that “hey excuse me witch but what you are talking about here is a life”, and a thousand more hulahbaloohs. Let me ask you this, when can you say that a piece of cell has a “life”? Does it mean that a life is tagged if a cell already takes a human form, or the cell is just really alive since its inside a human’s body? But how about the dozen of cells that die everyday in one’s body when one decides to cut one’s hair, cut one’s nails etc etc?

The point is, no matter how many times people debate about abortion, there will never be an absolute answer to all of these. The thing that I am promoting, is the respect for every form of subjective reality there is. If abortion does not work with you, I’m cool with that. If it does, then fine. Just don’t go blabbing here arguing as if you have your doctorate degree ten times over which makes your voice god-like; because for the nth time, dogmatic and painstaking conservative moralists like you disgusts me. One can never tell on the basis of the Bible alone that the foundation of all human morals must be with regard to the teachings of the little black book. People who are against abortion never thought of weighing the pros and cons to the woman concerned and her life in general. They only focus on a single matter that when chosen will bring forth a landslide of other more issues to deal with.

Moral standards are not absolute. Morality exists for the sake of order and for the perpetuation of the homo sapiens sapiens. As evident on the dictates of our time, the need to renew one’s perspective, the society’s paradigm and the entire epistemological framework of mankind is imperative; otherwise we will all stagnate and be eaten alive by the constant forces being introduced by the now elaborate human state of affairs. Reality could not be solely limited to a person’s belief or emotion about a particular issue. The whole aggregate of economic and social factors, plus the ever changing notion of happiness and the pursuit for a quality life has been the goal of every people. Our eudaimonia or our ultimate happiness might be different to one another; but no one has the right to impose their subjective truths to someone else since no two person are the same.

Abortion is very taboo not only in the Philippines, but even in countries and states where it has been legalized. The termination of pregnancy is not good only if its decision is not founded for the sake of a greater value. The right of every woman to take control of herself as stipulated and accepted in various international legal conventions is a signal that this is an emerging reality and an imperative that is needed by our times. The morals of the past could not be compared to what we have now, for everything is in a state of flux, and survival must be seen not only in terms of its literal sense.