The purpose of sexual intercourse is often two-fold: procreation and pleasure. Some might say that it is singular – to have babies and that the pleasure is a fortunate byproduct. However, whether or not one engages in the act for pleasure, procreation or both, the fact remains that the end result could be a baby. It is an undeniable fact.
It has been that way for all except the first birth:
if you have intercourse you may have a baby. People, listen now to this bit of imparted wisdom:
intercourse is the way babies are made. Deposit the sperm, it penetrates the egg and shazam, pregnant. If a method of birth control is used the chances of becoming pregnant are less than 3%. Let’s round it off at 5% for the purpose of my discussion.
Last year according to Statistics Canada there were 100,000 known abortions. 100,000 unplanned pregnancies. I say unplanned because if a pregnancy was planned an abortion would not be an item of discussion.
Using the 5% figure of failed birth control takes 5,000 abortions (assuming that the whole 5% are not kept) leaving 95,000 abortions that are the result of simply not wanting a planned full-term pregnancy and birth. What this means in plain uncomplicated black and white truthfulness is that 95,000 abortions were performed in 2007 simply and only because of inconvenience. That is all. No other reason.
Ninety-five thousand deaths, ninety-five thousand babies killed because of inconvenience. Ninety-five thousand lives with pulsating hearts thrown into the garbage chute, disposed of like trash.
In Canada two million abortions in the 20 years since Morgentaler. And Canada celebrates the abortion designer with an Order of Canada. A hero? For what? Absolutely mind-boggling. A grave and sad travesty. A total reversal of fundamental logic.
Some may say, ‘You’re late to the table, why do you bring this up again, it is old news? And anyway, we don’t want any restrictions put on our promiscuity, we just want to screw whenever it suits us and if it’s a baby, well, we’ll just trash it. Yeah, we could use birth control but you know, in the heat of the moment who thinks about that? Surely you can’t expect us to have self-control – that would mean responsibility. That’s hard and unthinkable -- why bother when we can just as easily shove it in the garbage chute?’
One day we’ll realize . . .
While on the subject of babies, I find it very hypocritical and irresponsible for the liberal Democrats to take Sarah Palin to task over her teenage daughter’s pregnancy. In order to demonize this woman they clamour like panting lemmings with self-righteous accusations demanding she explain herself. Well, how about years of the liberal demands for sexual freedom without responsibility. You can’t play both sides of the field. You got what you begged for, what you demanded as a right, demanding that parental control was to be negated. You promoted unbridled sex without responsibility. And now the result is exactly what will often happen – sex makes babies. And in a typical liberal Democrat way you use what you asked for in order to bring shame. It won’t work this time.
Michael is a freelance writer in Toronto. 
