Abortion: Can there be a solution?

No other issue has divided more or polarized more than this issue of abortion. Now before we get into the solution that I believe could bring some healing, let me suggest that the issue of abortion is being framed by those that are in favor of its use as an issue of choice by a woman on how to exercise control over her body. This is where those that do not believe in its use are ham-strung from the very beginning.

Abortion is NOT about a woman's right to choose, but about extending protect to the most innocent of a society's population. Now do not begin to close your mind before you finish reading this entire idea. Abortion is not about the right to choose since that issue appears to have been already adjudicated in the legal arena by several successful murder convictions whereby one of the counts of first or second degree murder was assigned to the death of a "fetus" in cases where the pregnant woman was also murdered. It would seem to me that if you can be convicted of a murder of a fetus then that fetus has standing as a person in a society since once can not be convicted of murder of "tissue".

So if abortion is not about a woman's right to choose, what is? Let me again suggest that a woman's right to choose is about "if she gets pregnant" in the first place. STOP! I will deal with the side issues of rape and /or incest in a second. For now, assume that a pregnancy takes place outside the legal definitions of rape and/or incest. Does not the current societal thinking give the woman the right to say "NO" right up to the point of consummation? Have not men been convicted of rape for not stopping even after the woman has initially said "YES" and then changed her mind during the sexual process, and said "NO"? So, if that being true, then a woman's right to choose is if she completes the process by which she could get pregnant in the first place, not after the fact if she subsequently achieves that state of physical being.

We give woman the right to control their bodies, put men in jail for violating those wishes and controls, so the right to choose should be preventative not remedial. Now about rape and incest: we already have laws about these events, and I do not believe that the exception should frame the law on how a issue should be adjudicated. Rape and incest pregnancies should be handled on a case by case base when it comes to the question of abortion since clearly in these cases the woman's right to choose was taken from her.

OK. Let's get to the point of solving the divisiveness of the actual abortion issue, and there can be a solution given that in a democracy, there must be compromise on the part of its citizenry or the democracy soon spirals down into civil war as the US Civil War clearly illustrated. Those that favor the use of abortion believe that a woman has the right to this process because its her body, but if so then fetal murder could not be legally accepted which it has been shown to be. Second, those that oppose abortion believe that life begins at conception for which there is no religious or medical proof since any woman experience a miscarriage could then be charged with manslaughter: clearly a situation not desired by either side.

With those position laid out, what could a position solution be? Assuming that in a secular society that protects the practice of religious life by one of its most important founding documents: the first amendment of the Bill of Rights (yes, read the whole amendment, readers!), can there be a compromise that may be acceptable to most and conducive to unity? YES!

Here is the proposed solution: abortion is simply not allowed in any case once the fetal heart beat can be detected by modern medical practices (ultrasound, etc). In other words, since babies can and have survived birth defects of missing brains, spinal malformations, etc, no baby has been born that has survived without a heart or blood. Therefore, to take the abortion issue out of the religious or secular battle arena, we just simply have to agree that in those cases where a woman's right to choose was violated (rape and/or incest), abortion is only allowed prior to the existence of a fetal heart beat since this is definable, demonstrable event -- not given to interpretation or belief. There is either a fetal heart beat or these is not.

While this is not what the "life at conception" believers want nor is it what the pro-choice believe is correct, it most clearly defines in a society when a fetus becomes a citizen and is thus given protection under the law. Remember unless there is compromise, a democracy would soon become a dictatorship or worse, inviable political state.

This proposed solution that does remove the additional process whereby either side would be able to exercise their rights of education, advertising, or proffering their particular point of view to those to which the choice may have befallen.

Remember, you can not legislate morals, nor can you cloth an issue inside the confines of a false premise in order to get the original viewpoint or argument accepted.

Again, please keep your comment civil and on point. Tomorrow, I will offer a possible solution to the problem of legal immigrant, again from the viewpoint of systems engineer not a religious, or political perspective.

Enjoy life since the alternative is not very appealing it would seem. Good night.