The battle over abortion has been raging for many years. Some people believe it is the choice of the mother, especially in extreme circumstances, to abort an unwanted child.

The other side is that no child, no matter what the circumstances, should be aborted. Many people wish to compromise to end this problem, but extremists on both sides consider compromise unthinkable.

The answer is far from on the horizon. The answer will, in fact, most likely never come at the rate at which this argument is raging, but there is a solution. It isn’t legalizing abortion or making abortions illegal.

The answer is making pregnancy illegal. This solution is both technologically feasible and logical.

With the medical technology of the world, making pregnancy illegal would be a breeze.

Any couple would be able to have children. They would have to apply for a child, though.

Having a child would require a license of some sort. The parents would go through a process to determine whether or not they are responsible enough to have a child.

For example, Mr. and Mrs. Jon Swift decide they want to have a child.

The two of them would then go to their local city hall and pick up an application for a child. They would turn it in to the adoption agencies to be processed.

That is where a committee led by a chairperson would decide which applicants are responsible enough to have a child.

The chairperson would write a letter back telling the Swifts that they could have a child and would be licensed to have more than one child.

Mrs. Swift would go into surgery to have an egg removed from her ovaries. Mr. Swift would have a sample of his sperm taken, and the mother’s egg, along with the fathers sperm, would be sent to a lab.

At the lab, the technicians would fertilize the egg with the father’s sperm, and the zygote would be sent back to the hospital.

After a few weeks, the mother would go back to the hospital to have the zygote inserted into her uterus, and Mrs. Swift would go through the normal gestation process.

Another problem arises with unplanned pregnancies; the female populous would need to be sterilized.

All females would have to go to the hospital and have their fallopian tubes severed.

This would prevent any possible pregnancies from fertile females now, but that would not be the end.

All females, after going through puberty, would have to have their tubes cut as well.

Any new female immigrants to the United States would have to undergo the same operation. This would adequately stop any and all pregnancies.

The enforcement of this new law would be a must. The judicial branch would need to set a precedent of capital punishment for all women and their partners who challenge this new law.

The punishment of death would prevent women from getting pregnant and would discourage men from having sex with unsterilized women.

The thought behind such a strong punishment is that the possible taking of an unborn life warrants the loss of that life.

With the battle of abortion going and an outcome still far to come, a compromise needs to be reached.

That compromise could very easily be the prohibition of pregnancy through natural means.

With harsh punishments, a viable plan of operation and a means to prevent accidental pregnancies, this modest proposal could end the battle between pro-choice and pro-lifers everywhere.

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Randy Hamper

Freshman

Physics