Perhaps understandably, the connection between fetal responses to music and abortion weren't mentioned in the show. What is not so understandable is that the program's website contains no mention of [USC professor] Woodward and her findings. It's as if someone realized the implications and hoped nobody would notice.
I don't think that there's some kind of conspiracy afoot. I just think that the PBS people's worldview won't allow them to make the obvious connection. Abortion on demand is only possible if people minimize the similarities between the fetus and us.
Worldview, how you think about the way the world works, can cause you totally to miss such astounding revelations. If such a thing were pointed out to someone whose worldview precludes recognizing or understanding it, he would profess, and sincerely feel, bafflement. Or he would respond with mockery and outrage.
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Worldview-induced blindness: We would all do well to consider that as a possibility. I wonder if it ever occurs to Mr. Colson that he might be guilty of it on at least a few occasions.
Dennis and Lauren, that is such typical and shallow thinking... the 'worldview' I guess... Abortion has been sold to the American people as a compassionate solution for women, a solution for pregnancies caused by rape and incest. The person who is not sure of their stand on abortion is guilted into agreeing policies because of the rape and incest argument.
Do you suppose that there have been 50,000,000 cases of rape and incest in our country since 1972 or 1973 when Rowe v Wade became law? It would be interesting to see the actual statistic of those two situations in comparison to the actual number of abortions that have taken place in America.
The law could be written just for those incidents if it were actually meant to alleviate the pain of those poor women who have suffered so horribly because of those situations. So, I find that argument for the justification of the current abortion laws in my country simply ... not a valid argument. I do think there should be some solution for those women...
Women who are aborting the growing infant in their bodies because they decided to be irresponsible with their body and don’t want to be responsible for the consequences, whether that be not being able to ‘party’ or have to give up a partner or career path for a few months or having to make a decision to put the child up for adoption, are committing a murder in every sense of the word. Even a person, who kills a woman that is carrying a child, should it die too, is convicted of two murders... the woman, and the unborn infant.
I think people are ambivalent about abortion because they do not really think about the unborn child as actually human. The 'tissue' as it is so conveniently referred to is in every sense a growing human being whether you call it a zygote, a fetus, an infant, a toddler or a teenager etc.
I also think that they are ambivalent because they are either unaware of, or don't understand what partial birth abortions are. I am including a website that will help any reader of my comments to understand what occurs during a partial birth abortion. Here is a brief explanation of partial birth abortion:
1) Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's leg with forceps.
2) The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal.
3) The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head.
4) The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole. (If the baby can hear music... what do you suppose this is like for the child?)
5) The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child's brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.
To see additional, more detailed information and images of partial-birth abortion and documentation from medical experts check out this web site:
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/PBA_Images/PBA_Images_Heathers_Place.htm
After all, let's not be blind any longer... in this case, ignorance is not bliss.
Your name, with regard to your simple answer... worldview.
Let me ask you a question my mom and dad used to ask me when I went along with the crowd or a friend and did something that was not a good choice.
If the worldview asked you to jump off a cliff would you follow them?
Just because something reaches status quo, does not mean that it should not be re-thought. For example... at one time slavery was considered the 'world view'... also the woman's right to vote was not considered the 'world view'.
Lets not be sheep led to the slaughter... fed the pabulum of the world view... lets really think things through and come up with our own decisions and answers... This is what the 'Hippie' movement in the 1960s was all about. I fear my compatriots have forgotten the goal and just go with the flow of 'world view'.
OK, Marie, you have a problem with partial birth abortion, so do I. So where is the cut off for you. How far into a pregnancy should abortion be allowed? I am comfortable with less than 10 weeks. And when you answer, please keep religion out of it, or by definition, you loose the debate by framing it as a religious matter and not a state one
Look, almost all of us can think of a circumstance in which abortions should be legal--for example, if we knew childbirth was going to kill my wife we'd certainly be having one.
But I think most of us don't think abortion should be some kind of RIGHT or a substitute for birth control. In California a teenage girl needs her parents' permission to get a tattoo or use a tanning bed, but she can get a taxpayer-funded abortion without them even being notified! That is the sign of sick culture, not that abortions might be legal for some kinds of medical circumstances.
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