The purpose of these Sunday musings was to help me by allowing me to ponder recent thoughts feelings and events.

Not necessarily to discuss policy, politics and the other topics of my daily rantings.

But today I have to stretch that, because this has a week where the “A” word has been in all around me.

I am talking about abortion.

It was the anniversary of Roe Wade earlier this week, a day many celebrate, and some mourn.

It was also the week where the President overruled the restrictions on overseas abortion funding.

Both of these are areas where I find  a lot of internal conflict, but they are also areas where I also apply a great deal of resignation.

Abortion is here to stay, and once again, we are exporting it with federal dollars.

Now, the first of these is simply a statement of fact.  Roe Wade will never be overturned, and it will prevent states from making their own determinations about.  Several have tried, they all fail.  While the subject of abortion is hot enough, my dislike of the interference in federalism is worse.

But I think that my real frustration regarding Abortion is that all the attention on it clouds more important social issues.

Anti abortionists offer a compelling argument:

Of course, the savvy pro abortionists counter with worse examples, where an abortion would have rid us of a serial killer or dictator, but the point is still valid:

The potential for life is sacred, and life should be protected.

This does not mean ending or banning abortion.  It means teaching a greater appreciation for life, and perhaps a greater respect for the process of creating it.

You see, I think the real tragedy of abortion is how many people become pregnant and decide to take the quick and easy way out of it.

The pro camp will point to rape and accuse people of me of being insensitive.  It is a good point, but unfortunately, a statistically meaningless one.  The reality is that the vast majority of pregnancies are a result of consensual  sex, not rape, about 95%. 

So even if we agree that the 1% of rape victims and 4% health reasons are justified, that leaves the vast majority as open to debate. 

That is where I wish we had more discussion, not giving women their options to end an unwanted to pregnancy, but in teaching them to be more responsible in the first place.

The liberals like to lampoon the abstinence minded Christians, but can they argue with the logic that if teens are not having sex they won’t become pregnant?

And even if we cannot stem the tide of teen sex, maybe there is a way to make the consequences a bit more real.

I don’t have any real answers here.  I just think that when we take this issue into a pro/anti abortions argument, we end missing the real point.

As for the federal dollars on foreign abortions, well I think it interesting that those who have chided us for interfering in foreign affairs for the last many years are OK with this interference, considering how many foreign cultures are impacted by this.

But I guess that is just me.  It just seems if we are getting ready to spend ourselves into oblivion, we might want to concentrate on things at home.

Of course, birth control is on the stimulus list at home too.

I guess it just saddens me that life is so easily dismissed and discounted.