For whatever sick and twisted reason, I continue to be a semi-regular watcher of the Today Show. Maybe I just tune in to see Matt Lauer's buzz cut, or Ann whatever her name is (think spicy Indian sauce) fumble her words, or to see Al Roker get paid to do absolutely nothing, or to watch Katie act like an idiot. Whatever the reason, I am regularly insensed (and entertained) by the mostly liberal slant they take on just about everything. Today Today was not entertaining. Today, one of the topics was abortion.

In a piece titled "Termination for Love", correspondents discussed the option many expectant mothers have taken to terminate their pregnancies when they find that their child may have birth defects. Spina bifida and Cerebral Palsy of course, being a few of the more major diseases commonly diagnosed, the story also included many instances of women choosing to terminate their pregnancy kill their baby because of minor things such as a cleft palette, a missing finger, a club foot, and even the wrong sex. Abortion Murder a child because he's the wrong sex? This is not China, this is America. And even in China, sex-driven genocide was completely unacceptable.

The lovely song of many women who have terminated their pregnancies for defectal reasons is of course, "I did it for love". This type of "love" believes that certain types of children will be better off dead in the womb than suffer in life. I suppose I can understand the logic. When the doctors are telling you that a child may not live beyond three months when born, why not end a life now to avoid more pain and suffering than necessary in the future. Why not? Because we are not God and we don't get the luxury of making such decisions. I realize this defies human logic, but that is the essence of faith.

One interviewee in particular, when faced with the news of her baby's short life expectancy, decided along with her husband, that she would rather not be forced to eventually look at a baby's casket. I am just going to say it: I think that logic is incredibly selfish. For the sake of foregoing your own pain, you choose to end a life which has been predicted by fallible (although knowledgeable) doctors to be short. When bringing a life into this world, it isn't about "us". Of course, many minds would reason that sparing a baby's life from potential pain is incredibly selfless because we have a mis-conception of what selfishness truly is. Selfishness takes place when we think that we always have the ability to control every situation. We are living in the era of the idolization of self. Man has now become his own god.

I have tried very hard to wrap my own theory and human rationale around a situation I know nothing about. I have never been pregnant. If I were, that would indeed be an immaculate conception. It is very easy for someone like me to sit up in the luxury skybox of inexperience and tell other people what decisions they should and should not be making. If forced to make the same decision, I do not doubt I may struggle. However, principle is principle and you don't have to go down every road to determine its destination as wrong.

The womb is one of the most pure and sacred places we have left on the Earth. My most firm conviction will forever be that the womb should not be touched. Human beings are not the true givers life and we are not authorized to take it away. I realize this leaves a lot of room for "what-ifs". The situation of deformity is one of them. However, I believe these "what-ifs" have caused a distraction from the key issue at hand. I am not willing to entertain those "what-ifs" because they are the very "conditionals" that would push legislation that continues to allow (and sometimes encourage) this modern-day holocaust. What-if's will come, but my worldview overrides the "conditionals".

My brother Aaron died of SIDS "Sudden Infant Death Syndrome" at the tender age of 6-months-old. To this day, I cannot comprehend how my parents made it through that situation. If given the chance to go back in time, knowing in advance that they'd lose their son, they would have surely gone through with the pregnancy because the plan was not theirs to determine.

I question this notion of "love". I understand it, but I do not agree with it.

Update: When searching for a fetus photo, I made the grave mistake of typing in "abortion" on google image search. This is what I got. Click at your own risk. Absolutely horrific.