I watched Patricia Ireland on Bill O'Reilly the other night. You can watch the segment here - LiveLeak. Notice what she says in the segment. Notice how often she uses the word "own." The reason the woman has an abortion is selfishness orto quoteIreland, "her own dreams." The baby gets in the way of that. Th point is that she had sex and didn't want to deal with the consequences of her decision so she had an abortion. John Piper dealt with the issue of why abortion was happening and said this,

One answer is given in James 4:2 (following the punctuation of the RSV and NASB):

You desire and do not have; so you kill.

Desire what? More financial security perhaps or more leisure or more education or more unrestrained teenage sex activity or more career options or the avoidance of a child who may be handicapped, or perhaps just less hassle for the next 18 years. We desire, and the desires may be good or bad.

But then comes the pregnancy-the beginning of a divine work of person-forming in the womb. And the result? The desires are threatened. We desire and then, because of the pregnancy, we cannot have. The child is going to cost money; or cramp our travel plans and our leisure; or keep us out of school; or hinder our career advancement; or consume thousands of hours with a possible handicap; and limit our freedom in a hundred ways for the next 18 years or more.

Now what? James says, "You desire and do not have; so you kill." We kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because they cut across our desires; they stand in the way of our unencumbered self-enhancement. And we live in a culture where self-enhancement and self-advancement is god. And if self-enhancement is god, then the One who is at work in the womb shaping a person in his own image is not God and the assault on his work is not sacrilegious, but obedience to the god of self.

That states it perfectly. That is what Obama meant when he said he didn't want his kids punished with a child. i often hear the pro-choicers chant, "reproductive rights!" My response is whose? I'm all for your rights, but we aren't talking about yours. We are talking about another human beings rights. That is a human being inside the womb. No amount of fancy word games can change that. The pro-abortioners like to quickly play the emotion card and ask, "What about the instance of rape?" My reply is why punish the child? I'm all for getting the disgusting criminal who broke the law but why punish the human being inside? He or she did nothing wrong. Why kill him or her?

The truth is, there is no logical or moral argument to defend abortion. None whatsoever except in the obvious case of when the mother's life is in danger. Not to mention that it is a breaking of the 6th commandment, "Thou shalt not kill!"