As for being “hard-wired” into a genetic makeup, well, I doubt my peacock has a homosexual gene. It simply likes roosters. I don’t know why, but the peacock’s happy and the rooster doesn’t seem to mind, so who does it harm?
Bottom line: calling homosexuality "abnormal" is not a judgement based on any reality ... you're basing it on taste. You might also be basing it on an interpretation of the bible, but I think such interpretations are sketchy at best (re: was Sodom really destroyed because of homosexuality, or the fact that the townspeople wanted to rape an angel?). Now, if you're the sort of person who can't see behavioral similarities between mankind and the animal world ... have fun living in your oblivion.
Back to abortion, I don't believe a fetus is a baby, so all of the hysterical comments about murder here bounce right off me. Bringing miscarriages into this discussion is relevant to the abortion topic because *most* anyone who has miscarried early will tell you that the cell cluster was not a human baby ... regardless of whether it died or was removed. A cell cluster might be "alive" in terms of cell growth, but I don't believe it's a conscious human life. You have hair and skin tissue which are "alive” ... yet you're not 'murdering' anything if you pull out a strand of hair or scrape your finger. As such, a human fetus has roughly the same consciousness as the sperm cells and egg cells that exist in the human body.
Being pro-choice means that I believe every woman can make up her own mind if the cells in her body are conscious. After all, the cells will essentially be a parasite consuming the woman's resources for nine months if she so chooses. If the woman chooses not to provide the resources, the cells can not grow into a human being. If a woman chooses not to provide nourishment to her newborn child, the child can still live if someone else provides the nourishment.
Not all women think as I do, either. People are different... kinda like how some mothers believe her baby is smiling and other think the babe's just passing gas. It’s still good to have choices.
Personally, I think the most responsible route to choose is that of birth control if one wants to experience sex without reproducing. I’ll also admit that late-term abortions when the mother’s life is not at stake leave me uneasy. Yet I don't believe abortion is especially irresponsible .... it's more responsible than bearing a baby you will not love and are not willing to provide care for. "Better off is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil activity that is done under the sun."
I’ve said what I wanted to say here … y’all think abortion is murder. I don’t.
To address the topic at hand, I performed for the pope when I was a teenager … at a mass that was dedicated to the hopeful end of abortion. I was a pretty die-hard Catholic at the time. I now cringe when I think of “pro-life” articles I wrote for my school newspaper that purported many of the same ideas some of you are putting forth. Because I had no idea what I was talking about due to a lack of real-life experience. I scarcely understood how my own body worked, and I certainly didn’t grasp the complexities of truly bringing life into this world. Many circumstances have changed my mind since then which have made me place value on the ability to choose your own path ... that applies to birth control and sexual orientation.