Prepared for “planned parenthood lobby day,” Louisiana State Capital steps, May 4, 2015. This reading was rejected, but Melissa Flournoy of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast requested it be forwarded by email. The text was subsequently edited.
Hello. I am Phil Beaver, an interested taxpayer. I oppose unwise abortion but urgently resist subjugation of women. Religious morals often conflict civic morality, which conforms to physics-based ethics-PBE. PBE informs that some abortions conform to civic morality.
A people need fidelity to physics, defined as energy, mass, and space-time,
from which everything emerges. Physics started 13.7 billion years ago; next
came cosmic chemistry, then inorganic chemistry, then organic chemistry, then
biology, then life, then humankind, then cultures.[i]
About 800 years ago English common law focused on the individual[ii]
and an opinion-based culture respecting personal rights started evolving. As a
consequence of opinion-based ethics, a civic people has yet to emerge.[iii]
Lying emerged long
ago, but a civic people don’t lie to each other, so that they can communicate.
A person who lies about a civic request can trust neither his/her statement of
concern nor collaboration with a civic people. Likewise, a red-light runner
cannot trust green lights. A person’s motives to conform to physics “are
derived from . . . inborn tendencies to avoid pain and annihilation, and from
the accumulated [psychological] reaction of individuals to the behavior of
their neighbors.”[iv]
My wife, Cynthia, said, “Physics mediates disagreement about common sense.”
Through
human physics, sexual intercourse may cause pregnancy in the woman’s
body, from which a child may emerge. A child owns her/his genealogical
and psychological heritage and the right to cultivate successive parenthood
unto children, grandchildren, and beyond. On other words, the couple that
conceived the child have the physics-based civic obligation to be faithful to
grand-parenting, great-grand-parenting and beyond. Adult contracts, such as
unprotected casual sex or surrogacy births, either directly or technologically,
threaten a child’s equality and dignity. (These opinions are mine, but I would
like to collaborate among a civic people to determine civic morality—civic
policy that conforms to physics.)
Infants can’t survive without care, and children can’t discover personal
authenticity without understanding. Children need two mutually
dedicated--family dedicated--role models: one male and one female. A child
needs balanced parenting: most males “intuitively work . . . to understand and
predict the system, or to invent a new one.”[v]
Most females aspire “to understand, to anticipate, and to resonate with”
others, especially her family. An equal child experiences parental bonds from
parents, grandparents and beyond.
Supreme Court
Justice Kennedy, a self-appointed god of dignity, has over-called the dignity
of a child for the benefit of adult contracts, but he cannot revise first
principles from physics. Woe is predictable when physics is rebuked. Please
note that I am writing my opinion: I do not know the objective truth. I would
be happy to collaborate from someone’s opposing opinion, as long as their basis
is not religion or other opinion-based ethic. A civic people can confront
opinion-based error.
Ethical legislators collaborate to keep religious opinion from subjugating a
child to a life without love. Protection could come from education,
birth-control, incentives-based family planning, collaborative autonomy, and
abortion when the woman decides to end her pregnancy. Public education should prepare youth for adulthood, especially for forming ethical human relationships. Ethical males appreciate each female’s personal autonomy and fertility--her obligations to her viable ova. Authentic men contain sexual appetite and prevent unwanted obligations, such as court appointed child support, or fidelity breaches. The ethical female has passion to love the man she deems worthy but must guard empathy and protect lives at risk. Ultimately, it is the man's responsibility to protect the woman's personal autonomy, because when she is convinced she has fallen in love (it is the case that he wants intimacy with no one else and she wants intimacy with no one else for life), she wants to fulfill her nature in every way. Both the woman and the man ethically protect the ova she carries.
Recognizing that some men nourish appetites more than responsibilities, Congress allows the Department of Health and Human Services to cover medical expenses for abortions due to rape, incest, or the health of the mother (see Hyde Amendment, 1976). This is right and good, and male irresponsibility toward females and their ova is egregious. It is up to a civic people to exemplify civic morality that will reduce the resulting tax burden. Female irresponsibility is also egregious, especially when her ova are at risk.
A
people's failure to educate adolescents about human reproduction, physical and
psychological passions, and forming beneficial human relations is also
egregious. Failure to educate is a civic immorality. Neither religions nor some
parents can be relied on respecting the awesome responsibility of teaching
human sexuality: Public schools must teach both human reproduction and
formation of beneficial human relations. This paragraph was motivated by the
issues in "Planned Parenthood's Harvest," Wall Street Journal,
Thursday, July 30, 2015.
Abortions happen naturally. For example, a fertilized ovum does not attach to
the uterus; no one knows there was a conception. Gestation fails many ways.
There are still-births. Among the reported cases, called “spontaneous abortion,
studies “have shown that only 50 percent of pregnancies will be
successful. A miscarriage occurs because the body recognizes that a pregnancy
is not successful. It is nature's way of assuring we develop normally.”[vi]
By extension of this principle, the ultimate natural abortion is the
woman’s decision not to remain pregnant. She knows how conception happened and
the risks that her fetus if gestated and delivered will become a neglected,
abused or unloved child. Her decision to terminate is dreadful to her. But she
has that duty and responsibility, and no one should impose arbitrary misery on
either her or the conception she carries. There are benign methods called
“natural abortion.”[vii]
I oppose
unjustifiable abortion but loath questioning a woman’s privacy respecting her
pregnancy. According to physics-based ethics, force respecting private
decisions is against civic morality. Physics leaves the responsibility for
abortion to the woman and it seems no man should question her decision.
Let’s collaborate on
this issue: Please use the comment box below.
[i]
Brian Swimme & Thomas Berry. The
Universe Story. 1992. Page 269 and following.
[ii]
Due process as of the Magna Carta. See www.bl.uk/magna-carta/articles/magna-carta-an-introduction
.
[iii]
See the essay “A Civic People” at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-civic-people.html
.
[iv]
Albert Einstein. “The Laws of Science and the Laws of Ethics.” 1941. See www.samharris.org/blog/item/my-friend-einstein
.
[vi]
Spontaneious abortion, online at www.ferrellduncan.com/fdc_body.cfm?id=5096#incidence
.
[vii]
See for example www.earlyabortion.com/abortion-information/natural-abortion/
.
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