My Can of Worms

For my 200th post, we are going to do some topics that have become 'hot' as of late.

1. Prop 8 in California. VOTE YES!!! Please don't let a word be re-defined! If homosexuals want a word for their union, make up one - or go read Frindle; it's a great book! Don't change a word that was given by God.

2. drumroll please....yes, I will be voting for John McCain in just under 3 weeks. While I think both he and Barack would do fine for the economy, overseas, etc (both would have great advisers and choose qualified leaders. They might come at it from different sides of the issue, but overall both want the same goal. If all else fails, Congress can call a few emergency sessions...), McCain more supports my values (not totally, but MORE) which are much harder to over-turn later.

There was the most incredible article in the October Ensign called Abortion, an Assault on the Defenseless. In high school I had to do a pro/con research paper on a 'hot topic' and chose abortion - trying to find my stand. One girl from my basketball team was pregnant and decided to place the baby with a family and another girl's dad was the go-to guy for unwanted pregnancies. Besides the fact that family members and close friends have chosen adoption, this has always been a sensitive topic for me. Elder Nelson starts the article with the following:

"With that understanding and reverence for life, we deplore the loss of life associated with warfare. The data are appalling. In World War I, more than 8 million military fatalities occurred. In World War II, more than 22 million servicemen and women died. Together, these two wars, covering portions of 14 years, cost the lives of at least 30 million soldiers worldwide. That figure does not include the millions of civilian casualties.
These data, however, are dwarfed by the toll of another war that claims more casualties annually than did World War I and World War II combined. Worldwide reports indicate that more than 40 million abortions are performed per year."

"This matters greatly to us because the Lord has repeatedly declared this divine imperative: “Thou shalt not kill.” Then He added, “Nor do anything like unto it.” Even before the fulness of the gospel was restored, enlightened individuals understood the sanctity of human life. John Calvin, a sixteenth-century reformer, wrote, “If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, … it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fœtus in the womb before it has come to light.”
Man-made rules have now legalized that which has been forbidden by God from the dawn of time! Human reasoning has twisted and transformed absolute truth into sound-bite slogans that promote a practice that is consummately wrong."

He continue on with:
"Nearly all legislation pertaining to abortion considers the duration of gestation. The human mind has presumed to determine when “meaningful life” begins. In the course of my studies as a medical doctor, I learned that a new life begins when two special cells unite to become one cell, bringing together 23 chromosomes from the father and 23 from the mother. These chromosomes contain thousands of genes. In a marvelous process involving a combination of genetic coding by which all the basic human characteristics of the unborn person are established, a new DNA complex is formed. A continuum of growth results in a new human being. Approximately 22 days after the two cells have united, a little heart begins to beat. At 26 days the circulation of blood begins. To legislate when a developing life is considered “meaningful” is presumptive and quite arbitrary, in my opinion."

Okay - I'll end with this and hopefully just figure out how to do a silly link to the article!
"Relatively few abortions are performed for the special circumstances to which I have referred. (rape, incest, mother's life, child not able to survive on own) Most abortions are performed on demand to deal with unwanted pregnancies. These abortions are simply a form of birth control.
Elective abortion has been legalized in many countries on the premise that a woman is free to choose what she does with her own body. To an extent this is true for each of us, male or female. We are free to think. We are free to plan. And we are free to do. But once an action has been taken, we are never free from its consequences."

I think the human body is incredible!!! I've been thinking a lot lately about pre-earth life, life here, and the life that will follow and what it might be like. All the spirits waiting to come to earth need bodies!

Anyway - McCain will support this much more than Obama - and yes, I've researched and read and listened to debates!

Here is the link!!! :)