If Preserving Life Matters, Should We Re-examine The Womb To Tomb Debate?

The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named
Samuel Alexander Armas, who grabs a finger while being
operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner. 

I am a Christian and fully torn over the abortion issue, especially in this era of knowledge.  Our claim of ignorance does not ring to be true in this enlightened age.  Access to birth control and even the day after pill should allow us to reconsider the conversation about abortion and consider setting limits.

Unfortunately, that is probably as likely to happen as getting the NRA to support a gun ban.  While I use that analogy partly in jest, I am starting to believe that we may need to connect these issues together like a rope.  If preserving life matters, do we need to re-examine the womb to tomb ideology.  After all, life is precious from beginning to end even if we debate over when the beginning begins.

Moreover, the voices of those who long for comprehensive gun legislation have been known to support women's reproductive freedoms. Conversely, gun rights advocates scream hypocrisy at their opponents who support abortions while fighting for the lives school children.

The voices are singing a similar message, just not in harmony.  If the genuine motive of each side is to save lives, then the agenda of each has matrimonial potential.

We seriously do not need to allow every form of abortion anymore.  This notion becomes restrictive of more people than one imagines when attempting to legislate it.  Some people who get abortions are poor and disadvantaged, but abortions are not cheap so I have a hunch that more than just poor people are keeping this industry alive.  Gender selection abortions?  Late term abortions? There must be some way to save more lives than we currently do.

Especially in our schools. Even if we arm ourselves at every entrance of our school, we do so in order to shoot down our mentally ill kids. Is this a knee jerk reaction or a long term solution?  Will we persist in shooting at suicidal children instead of rescuing them if we can?  I wouldn't care if gun's became less restrictive for most as long as they become more restrictive for the people who need such restrictions.

When it gets down to it, the only way we save lives from womb to tomb is to offer mental health education
and intervention efforts.  If preserving life matters, that is.