Do Unto Others Should Include the Unborn

Recently, I posted a pretend scenario illustrating human kindness having to do with life itself. I asked the reader to see themselves as needing emergency medical care and finding another with the same need and only the reader was in a position to help. Helping could endanger the reader’s life, but not helping would surely mean death for the other person. Everyone who read and responded as to what choice they would make gave me an answer that showed they would respond in a positive manner to help their fellow human, a stranger in need. And I was ‘chastised’ to a certain degree for the scenario in that the one who could help might be acting foolishly, and I, the writer, had not thought out the matter clearly enough.

The real reason I posed the questions was to illustrate another point. As I stated, all of the responders said it would be wrong not to help even if helping meant they might be making more trouble for themselves than they could handle. Trouble enough to cause their own death.

This is the point: There are women who find themselves pregnant and decide to end the life of their unborn child. They may claim that they are not physically able to carry the baby to term. Some may claim that they are not mentally up to the task. Many others just don’t want to be bothered. Many women evidently wait until the baby is about to be born before killing it.

There are diapers to buy, change and take to the curb (or wash). There are bottles to buy, formula to mix and bottles to wash and sterilize. Dates and dinners to cancel, doctor’s appointments to make. Stretch marks to live with, morning sickness and other discomforts. Many women find these ‘just too much to deal with’ and decide not to get that far.

These women are on a road. They are not ill. They are traveling, in a sense, alone. No one can help them carry the baby until he/she is born. But they decide that since this is the case, it is their ‘right’ to decide whether that is something they want to do. And many thousands decide that it is just too much trouble. It isn’t endangering their life, but perhaps their ‘lifestyle.’

However, like the stranger who falls, broken and bleeding onto the road, and in need of assistance, the unborn baby is in need also. The unborn baby is on life support. They are tied to the mother by a life line, totally dependent on her for everything. And yet, unlike the readers of my life threatening scenario, these women are unwilling to help this little stranger. Their own son or daughter will die because they don’t care.

I recently asked another Gather member who is in favor of women having the ‘right’ to abortion to place him/herself in the position of needing help on a road but being passed by. I asked this person to consider ‘do unto others’ as a reason for women to refrain from having abortions. This member has since said they live by those words.

Do unto others should include the unborn.