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I believe in putting murderers to death. I believe that abortion is murder.

Can you tell where I'm going with this?

With logic like this, it's a miracle that my roommate last semester didn't end up dead. From a third-world country, he seemed to be under the impression that abortion was not only acceptable but helpful: instead of having unwanted, unloved children on the streets without a home, it made perfect sense to just have the children killed. Logically, where does this lead? Why not just kill the unloved and unwanted children now, born or unborn? Peter Singer, a professor at Princeton University, says something along the lines of “Why not? While we're at it, kill elderly, Alzheimer's patients too? But don't eat a harmless chicken”. Once you can convince yourself that killing unborn children is okay, you shouldn't have any trouble telling yourself that infants, children, teenagers and anyone can be killed.

People make the argument that abortion should be legal so that it can be safely administered to people instead of going to back-alley shops where their life is put at risk. Well, if there was a mother that was sadistic enough to murder her child just because her unborn son or daughter is an inconvenience, the mother's health wouldn't be at the top of my priority list. People say that the emotions that drive woman to do such things are difficult to be overcome. I say, so what? When my girlfriend says, “Women are emotional.”, I hear, “Women are irrational.” Let's look at what emotions have done: emotions of hatred killed six million Jews, Roma and handicapped people. Emotions of fear led to the Pearl Harbour attack. Emotions of anger destroyed the World Trade Centre. Emotions of disgust killed one million people in Rwanda in 1994 while emotions of apathy in the rest of the world just let it happen.

Don't believe that people are slaves to their emotions. Rather, we should be in control of them. Instead of letting emotions of fear, hatred and anger control our lives, let our lives control emotions of faith, hope and love. Let hate control your life, and you'll have no excuse. Let your life control your love, and you won't need an excuse.