Tag Archive: abortion

Stop Abortion, Eugenics

By Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-24T00:54:18Z in Personal Development, with these tags: abortion, eugenics, happiness, life, rights, truth, 1 Comment. 348 words.

I know they don’t teach you real history in history class. I know you haven’t read anything about the past 200 years of mankind and you have no historical knowledge. You don’t even know your own country. I don’t either, but if there’s something I want to know I don’t assume the status quo is correct. I look it up.

Eugenics was big in the 1920s in the U.S.A., and most states had laws allowing the government to sterilize people unfit to be parents. This isn’t just the insane—it’s people who have parents and family who are alcoholics and drug-users. Men …

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Why Abortion is Wrong Even if it’s Right

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-08-30T09:38:58Z in Personal Development, with these tags: abortion, challenges, children, death, ethics, goals, growth, humor, life, teenagers, 31 Comments. 1,644 words.

I’m going down a hypothetical path where abortion is ethical and just, despite knowing it isn’t. I will prove that even if my knowledge is false and abortion is ethical, one who goes down that “ethical” path reaches a dead end, the end result for which is tenfold worse than believing abortion is unethical. Finally, with plain-old logic, I’ll prove that abortion is the wrong choice either way.

Definitions

First, let’s make the definition of “fetus” really clear. The American Heritage Stedman’s Medical Dictionary defines it as this:

“In humans, the unborn young from the end of the eighth week after conception to

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