So, I heard that Banarama song "Venus" on the radio tonight. It always makes me think back to when I was nine or ten and couldn't understand the words. I wasn't sure, but I half-thought it said, "I'm your fetus, I'm your fire, what's your desire?" This was back when all I knew was, a fetus was what you called a baby in a pregnant lady when you didn't think it was alive. So I worried that the song was somehow pro-choice. I know the right lyrics now, but am no less mystified by those who somehow don't see a fetus as a living thing. Or even more troubling, those who do, and don't seem to care. If you really believe life only begins at birth, well, I disagree but in that case I can understand your support of abortion rights. But if you believe life begins at conception, and still support abortion, when do you believe it becomes worth protecting? When does it stop being worth protecting? I am reminded of a quote I read recently by Pope Benedict:
"It may be seen that the 'nos' pronounced by the Church in her moral guidelines, and upon which public opinion sometimes unilaterally fixes its attention, are in fact so many 'yeses' to the dignity of human beings, their lives and their capacity to love."
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