📣Timcast IRL 🏆

Timcast with Tim Pool is a fantastic podcast. I don't even remember how i stumbled onto it-by accident though and not design. I remember that.Good to hear the pov of a younger generation especially someone who operates on more than a few brain cells.Tim Pool is absolutely brilliant. The discussions at Timcast will keep you on your toes but it's a lot of fun too. Keep it light people.

Anyway, Tim is fantastic, fun and smart. He has a lot of good sense for a young guy; married with a baby too. Let's be honest, that's unusual these days.

Yes, i'm a boomer but thank God didn't lose it like a lot of the boomers did. What happened to them? They seem to have lost their way. Tim could set them straight.

Now that it's clear how i feel about Tim Pool and his podcast

let's get to a topic Tim brought up that I believe is worth discussing with him.Abortion. He noted he is a moderate on some issues; abortion is one of them. i'm pro life. Period.

i grew up at a time when abortion was illegal. Nobody argued about abortion. It was unthinkable. As a kid i couldn't heave imagined a mom wanting to kill her baby.

As a teen who could wrap their head around it. It would have to be a young girl who wanted to hide her pregnancy. There wasn't a single girl in my class that ever got pregnant so it wasn't a problem that came up.There were rumors flying around about this one girl but they were just that, rumors. Maybe or maybe not true.

It wasn't until 3 yr after i graduated-1973-that people were demanding abortion be legalized and the battle was on.

Tim Pool has given the issue a lot of thought and reached a conclusion that satisfied his conscience. It seemed reasonable to him.

He concluded he could support abortion up to a certain month; after which it could not be permissible.

I'm assuming this is based on the stage of the development.

Objectively speaking abortion terminates a pregnancy.

Objectively speaking the reproductive process has ended.

The problem with picking a time when it's permissible is that it's subjective and arbitrary. People will have differing opinions based on differing criteria.Objectively speaking it is either moral or immoral, ethical or unethical. Objectively speaking it ends a human life; it's either right or wrong NOT it's ok one time but not another depending on a person's SUBJECTIVE opinion.

You could have a 1k of those. You know what they say about opinions.

When does life begin? We all begin at conception. Once that happens and nothing else goes wrong (commonly an ecoptic pregnancy)a human being will be born.

Just so people know the Catholic Church considers abortion intrinsically evil but the procedure for an ecoptic pregnancy is NOT an abortion and is necessary. It must be done to save the life of the mother; the babies life is not deliberately terminated. The baby cannot survive. It's simply not possible.

There is a difference between deliberately taking a human life and an unavoidable end to save a human life that can be saved but not saved otherwise. The key words being deliberate for one and unavoidable for the other. [The same can be applied to end of life issues].

What about an extreme case ie rape or incest?

Rare but it does happen. It can be used as a cover up. It's a cruel disposal of evidence; the baby is given the death sentence The mother is traumatized twice. The baby pays for the crime.Why isn't adoption an option?

Why is the answer always abortion while adoption doesn't get the same emphasis. They call it pro choice but it looks like abortion is the only option. No matter how a baby is conceived a human being deserves a chance at life.

The reproductive process begins with sexual intercourse.Conception,fertilization and implantation would be the next steps and the final step would be birth.

I am going to quote Mother Therese here and her thoughts on abortion from her National Prayer Breakfast Speech.

oday is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. 

And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?  How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion?  As always, we must persuade her with love and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.  Jesus gave even His life to love us. 

So, the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love, that is, to  father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. 

The father is likely to put other women into the same trouble.  So abortion just leads to more abortion.  Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. 

This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.

Many people are very, very concerned with the children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on.  Many people are also concerned about all the violence in this great country of the United States. 

These concerns are very good.  But often these same people are not concerned with the millions who are being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers.  And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today-abortion which brings people to such blindness".

Religious or not can we at least admit she has a point that since abortion was legalized we have lost respect for human life.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to look at the issue of abortion OBJECTIVELY considering the weight it carries? It's no small matter.

Objective as in we breathe in oxygen, we exhale carbon dioxide. Objective as in there are 2 genders; male and female. Objective as in 32 degrees (F)is the temperature at which water freezes.

There are OBJECTIIVE TRUTHS. The 10 commandments tell us what is morally right or wrong; you know that if they are violated, even if you don't believe in God, there is a break down in the ability of people to live in civility. If we had no other laws besides the 10 commandments we could survive IF people didn't violate them. Good luck with that.

We simply can't govern ourselves without a legitimate authority that answers to a higher good.

How do we know what IS good or evil without a yardstick for measurement?

Topic for another day. For now, let's take a very serious look at abortion and remember how the pro abortion supporters said it would make abortion rare (it already was). Remember who founded Planned Parenthood-the greatest organized group supporting abortion-and WHY.

Remember the division it has caused in our country and the number of lives it has taken, not to mention the generations that won't exist in the future.

i would even look at some of the societal changes we've had since abortion was legalized and admit that most of them haven't been good for us.

For as long as the abortion battle has been going on the first fact is that this is a HUMAN LIFE and has the right to live.Whatever other reasons there may be for legalized abortion there's none good enough; none trump that one.