History: The Roadmap to the Future--Latin America: Kudos Brazil for Taking a Stand Against Abortion.

Kudos to Brazil for rejecting a proposed law which would have granted a supposed 'right' to an abortion. The world's largest majority Roman Catholic country still considers abortions to be illegal except in the cases of rape and when the mother's life is in danger. That is far more than the world's largest majority Protestant (and general Christian) country--the United States--has done.

It is astounding at how many countries where the majority of inhabitants, occasionally the overwhelming majority of inhabitants, profess to be Christians, have legalized the termination of a human's life because that life would have been a hindrance (or so they believe). The people have been fooled in many cases into accepting abortion as a 'woman's right to choose' by way of loaded phrases such as the preceding along with little ditties. For instance, using 'embryo' or 'fetus' instead of 'unborn child' so as to make the child seem less human and therefore cause less of a furor among people who might become angry at the wanton murder of babies. 'Embryo' and 'fetus' are completely accurate terms, but the fact is, if you let an embryo and especially a fetus develop, the result is usually what would be incontrovertibly a human being. Even the phrase 'terminate a pregnancy,' probably the most violent of the commonly used terms is not balanced, and definitely not critical of abortions. Notice that the pregnancy, the process, is terminated; there is no mention of the unborn child being killed. Even the most baseline term, 'abortion' is loaded, portraying the ending of a life as little more than the cancellation of a process.

Furthermore, many in those countries who support abortion are fond of depicting the issue as being equal with homosexual marriage as an enemy of the 'religious right.' In elections, they argue that populists stir up these ignorant rednecks to divert their attention from the 'real issues' such as the economy or foreign affairs. For people supposedly open to other views, they are particularly dense. Abortion and homosexual marriage are not equal, although they are both bad--from a Christian perspective. An analogy would be a serial murderer and an abuser of prescription drugs. Currently, society frowns on both those types, but definitely considers the former far more loathsome than the latter.

Christians consider a single zygote (when a human life is a single cell) to be completely human, and the willful termination of that life by abortion to be a murder. In the cases of miscarriage, that would be the death of a child, not just some thing that failed to mature into a human. If you believed that millions of people have been murdered--and are being murdered each year, wouldn't that take priority over economic or foreign affairs issues? It would be akin to declaring a Holocaust, a genocide, happening right in front of the world, a side topic. For Christians, the murder of millions of the most innocent humans out there per annum has to trump practically any other issue, which is why for many Christians, they will not vote for a pro-abortion politician, even if they agree with him on lesser issues. The opposite for a pro-life candidate who would get their support, even if he happened to be less competent in other areas.

So shame on those in the developed, Western, 'Christian' world who have approved of a genocide which goes on today. And kudos to those in the developing, Western, 'Christian' world who have stood up for a human's right to life, which far supersedes any human creature's 'right to choose.' Bravo Brazil.

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