Newton’s Third Law states: “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
We all know this is true and have experienced it in our daily lives. For instance, we’ve seen videos of criminals throwing bricks at store windows with all their might only to have that brick bounce right back off the mightily reinforced glass and knock out the thrower or his cohort.
What big belly laughs we get watching the brick come back so fast we can barely see it because, obviously, that was a stupid criminal who did not know his science. Often the video provider will play the footage in slo-mo so we can see Newton’s Third Law in all its glory.
It seems that even Science doesn’t know its science.
For instance, the push to limit the human population on earth. Since the early 1970s, when Earth’s population was only 3.7 billion, students were being propagandized about population control. Earth is limited! We’ll run out of food! We’ll run out of water! Air, aaaargh! HOUSING! Blah-blah-blah.
Yet the only time we find food, water, and housing issues is when politicians and dictators take over control of those processes. During World War II, folks were encouraged to grow as much of their own food as possible on whatever little bit of dirt they had. These were called Victory Gardens and they worked great.
Now that we are at eight billion on the earth, I see a time when politicians will even outlaw the growing of your own food because that may upset their centralized committee plans for equitable distribution of resources. Yet in that same centralized committee plan, they shut down farms, destroy crops exceeding planning guidelines and keeping prices low, and punish our beloved sodbusters, ranchers, and dairy and pig farmers.
Politicians’ and dictators’ scorched earth policies of human control may work for a short time, but Newton’s Third Law always comes back around and bites them in their fat butts because that’s the only place starving masses can find food.
See how Science works? It has real world implications when ignored, manipulated, or flat-out lied about.
Another place where real, fact-based Science has bumped up against political and social manipulation is with abortion.
According to WHO, there are 121 million pregnancies every year. Half of all pregnancies end in abortion. Some are naturally occurring spontaneous abortions we call miscarriages.
Then there are the other means of ending pregnancy, of which there are many, such as pills, surgical removal, vacuum pumps ripping babies apart, insertion of chemicals into the womb burning the baby to death, sharp instruments inserted into the womb and shoved through the baby’s head and body until it dies, falling down the stairs, hitting the woman’s abdomen with force, and more variations on those themes.
So, here is where Real Science meets Fake Science. Fake Science around the world robustly preaches the fetus, embryo, or whatever they call the baby, is somehow not yet human. Thus, because it is not the killing of a child, they can empower health care workers to deliver quality “abortion care” and provide every-helpful Toolkits to perform abortions.
But what is abortion? The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) says on their website: “Abortion is when a pregnancy is ended so that it doesn’t result in the birth of a child. Sometimes it is called ‘termination of pregnancy’. BPAS cares for women with an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy. We treat thousands of women who’ve decided that abortion is the right choice for them, and give advice and counselling to women who don’t know what to do next.”
BPAS says “Abortion is when a pregnancy is ended so that it doesn’t result in the birth of a…” A what? A puppy? A kitten? A hooved calf or one that swims?
No. Clearly it says, “…so that is doesn’t result in the birth of a child.” Good grief. Even the British Pregnancy Advisory Service knows the child in the womb is a human.
It’s the idea that abortion saves the lives of more women than if they’d carried that child to full-term.
It’s the idea that if it is “right for you” — which is another version of “your truth” — then it isn’t wrong to kill what everybody knows is a human child.
It’s the idea that abortion is good, so it isn’t wrong to kill a child, no matter the circumstances, and you get…
Take the leap with me here. I promise you’ll land on solid philosophical and moral high ground.
…you get child sex slavery underwritten by governments in the form of lax immigration policies.
How else can we explain the worldwide rush to kill over 42 million unborn children (that we can document) per year while espousing deep care and concern for women?
How else can we explain the deep care and concern for women yet still not be able to define what it is that makes a human a female?
How else can we march for women’s rights and yet still mandate that biological men claiming to be a woman, though man parts are still attached, can undress in front of our daughters in locker rooms and get erections because they are aroused by women?
You see how “your truth” and “my truth” can cause problems? So, back to abortion.
What is the equal and opposite of “all abortion is good”?
It’s all abortion is evil. What’s the problem with that?
If all abortion is evil, and we are not allowed to save the mother’s life by sacrificing the child in the womb, then the notions that all abortion is evil and all abortion is good are both pure hatred of all women.
So, what happens when two equally strong yet diametrically opposed ideas meet?
Just like the burglar who threw the brick at the glass only to have it bounce back and hurt him badly, we get politicizing of policies that end up helping no one and solving nothing. Such as what is going on in India right now with this subject. Yes, women are marching in the streets both for and against abortion on demand. And you know what you’ll find when you read that article? A lot of fancy footwork in illogical thinking that does not solve anything nor offers a solution.
All abortions are sad, but not all are evil. To 100% allow for or against are both wrong. Thus, it becomes necessary to exercise control over those whose “moral understanding is not sufficient to keep their conduct what it should be.” [Hope of The Nation — Our American Heritage; 1951, pg 6.]
How do we do that? Read widely. Think deeply. And then spread that knowledge.
You be the one that brings about regression to the mean.
NOTE: If you haven’t already, you really should check out and keep an eye on RetractionWatch.com. You can also find them at Twitter. Retraction Watch keeps track of retracted scientific papers, and the who, what, when, where, and why of them.
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