What are the odds?

Each week millions of people play the National Lottery knowing that the odds are stacked against them winning the jackpot. To be exact 13, 983, 816 to 1 against. These are insurmountable odds; odds that make those of us who play each week the fools we are. Those who win of course set the example for the continuance of our twice weekly acts of stupidity, when our inner reason is sabotaged, by what? Greed? Or is it not greed, but just the need to unburden the brain of the endless pressure of financial demands on our family budgets?

                

                But what about our chances of being born in the first place in order for us to play the lottery? If you think the odds of 14 million to one are gargantuan; then think about odds of between 200,000,000 and 500,000,000 to 1 against. There are over six billion people living on this planet who have beat these odds – yourselves and myself included…because we are  alive, and living as human beings. But think how lucky we are to have been here in the first place.

                

                 Every time a male ejaculates he releases between 200 and  500 million sperm cells.  Only a maximum of 200 million however reaches the egg and have a chance of fertilisation. Millions of sperm die after ejaculation, while millions of others die during the journey to the egg; and of those hundreds of millions, the norm is that only one impregnates the egg and fertilises it – resulting in you and I.

                Just think how lucky those of us who survived this transition are. We (those alive today) have already won the greatest of all lotteries; that of having been born in the first place, and anything that comes after in terms of luck will never compare to that single sperm cell out of 500 million that finally enters the egg and fertilises it. It is to me at least, truly astounding. To think that I won the greatest race - that of being born into the world. A race greater than that accomplished by any Olympic athlete in terms of the odds.

                

                Those of us who live today as well those in the past, have all been blessed with such a fortune that surpasses any we may make in life, whether through winning the lottery or through ambition and enterprise. Being born will always be a human individuals greatest lottery triumph.

THESE ODDS ARE indeed cruel; for each of us living today and in the past could have had been replaced by 500 million other identities and become physically different human beings, were it not for the demands, and a fluke of nature. One would suppose that if such odds had been overcome and a pregnancy achieved, the mother would wish to see it through to its completion. Such arithmetical odds would surely have demanded that the mother once impregnated, then the resultant child should be allowed its chance in the world.

                

                But sadly the kind of human self-interest commonly represented within human nature now overwhelmed the self-interest of the feminist-kind. Women demanded the right of abortion and it was granted by liberal progressives (both male and female) who sold us the proposition that abortion should no longer be part of the back street.

                

                 At this time any woman who fell pregnant outside of marriage was cast aside by the society in which they lived. They therefore ventured into the realm of backstreet abortionists carrying their problem.  Abortionists varied in quality and 'sophistication', but none knew how to safely abort a foetus, so in some bizarre cases; a deep bath and quantities of gin was supposed to relieve the women of her 'burden'; and considering the morality of the times, such births did indeed represent  a burden for the women who put themselves in the hands of a backstreet abortionist..

                

                 Pregnancy outside of marriage had put an unbelievable strain on women who fell within the realm of such pregnancies: but society at the time was equally culpable in the death of a living foetus because of its attitude toward unmarried pregnant women.

                

                We were told in the months leading up to the implementation of the 1967 abortion act that pregnant women would not give up their children lightly, and many a desperate hour would be spent deciding whether or not to forfeit their child - and In the beginning this was true. But as this law transcended the generations; this consideration became ever more shallow and abortion became the easy choice instead of the reflective one.

TODAY  ABORTION is, sadly, considered as another form of contraception. It is now given on demand. It no longer requires a second opinion by a second doctor. This is simply because the second doctor will always agree with the first. Within the NHS virtually all doctor's are pro-abortion on demand. So the caveat that the original Steel Bill sort to implement against abuse of the act, no longer applies.

                There are 250,000 abortions a year  taking place in the UK. To pretend that women consider their conscience before proceeding is no longer a credible position – abortion  has become another form of contraception: based not upon the concept of guilt (if it ever was); but upon convenience.

                

                 Abortions only add to further the odds on being born. But such additions are not within the realm of male ejaculation, but within the realm of feminism. Women have been given the power to chose whether someone like themselves should be given the chance to live, and they have decided that they should not if they represent an inconvenience to their lifestyle.

               

                 Most if not quite all those women who abort out of convenience, no doubt consider themselves humanitarian and civilised; each caring for their fellow human beings and outraged at any inhuman act such as, for instance, the beheading undertaken by ISIS, or the treatment of women by Jihadists. But when it comes to a foetus their compassion goes out of the window; and only expediency matters to them. They do not believe (and have been encouraged in such a belief by the medical profession) that the foetus are in some way not human, which it is – it is a human foetus, which, if allowed to develop could become part of the next generation of medics, scientists, writers, philosophers, artists. The very professions our liberal elite pay homage to.

                

                 Abortion was once used only to save the life of the mother if the birth threatened her life. Today, along with the condom, pill, and morning after pill, abortion has been added to the list of contraceptives. Did David Steel ever foresee this? I doubt it.  No doubt Mr Steel genuinely believed that by legalising abortion, women of all people, would not abuse the Bills intent. But if they did, then there was the two-doctor safeguard to prevent idle use of the act.

                        

                    The Steel Bill was meant to end an obvious cruelty from being committed by means of the backstreet abortionist; but which however developed into the Laissez-faire approach to abortion. The Left always believe in the inherent goodness of mankind, which is how socialism, liberalism, One Nation Toryism, and communism fashioned themselves. But none of these forces considered human nature as a part of the baggage of being human - and neither did David Steel.   

                    Instead of righting a wrong, David Steel unleashed a greater wrong; one which he never foresaw – the unlimited right to abort foetuses; now seen as mere pieces of tissue unrecognisable as human; but nevertheless still human. Just as a gorilla foetus is a gorilla in the making, and it is the same with all other species. And it is the same with humans, and not to respond to this with anything more than a shrug of the shoulder is a blasphemy, not against God, but against humanity and its continuance on the earth.                                        
                     Abortion hinders the human potential for unlimited and unrestricted advancement in all aspects of human culture. Of the 250,000 lost souls that were put an end to prematurely last year, how many may have become scientists gifted with finding cures for cancers and many dozens of other diseases? Or how many others would have, given the chance, would have found their mark in other aspects of science or the arts?                                      
                    At the very least abortion is a waste of human potential. A potential that encompasses the furtherance of  all the sciences as well as the arts.  Abortion will eventually help bring closure to the Western democracies, by limiting the human potential because of abortion.