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     And then these same people are so naive as to wonder why children are murdering each other in schools ... why life seems so cheap ... why families are falling apart ... why there are so many young suicides ...

     It doesn't take too many brain cells to realize that children who grow up with the tacit understanding that the only reason they're alive is because their timing happened to be "convenient" are going to have the idea that life has to be pretty cheap. They've been taught that the importance of life comes someplace after convenience, self control, financial status, personal comfort ...

     Even our laws have a confusing double standard that young people can't help but see. In many places, children can't be given an aspirin without parental consent ... but they can be given an abortion? They can't attend the school dance without written permission from their parents, but they are allowed to murder their own unborn children without their parents ever even knowing?

     Now, let's look a little more closely at the reasoning behind one of the most frequently heard pro-choice arguments today: the "I have a right to do whatever I want with my own body!" argument. Well, that's not quite true in a legal sense - for example, you don't have the right to do illegal drugs, and you don't even have the right to choose to not wear a seat belt! However, as far as being pregnant is concerned, it's an accurate argument. Outside of legalities, women do indeed have the right to do what they want with their own bodies. They have the right to choose to engage in behavior that shares in God's creation ... or to control themselves and choose to abstain. However, the children who are conceived have their very own DNA code, and although reliant on their mother's body for a relatively short time, they are not part of her body. If she wanted to exercise her right to do as she pleases with her own body, she should have done that way back before she got pregnant - by choosing to exercise self control. Once pregnant, there are (at least) two lives there, and so that argument is no longer even valid.