A friend of mine was attending the Civil Liberties and Public Policy conference in Amherst, Mass. and brought me back this souvenir. While it was sweet of her to give me the button, we hadn’t ever discussed my feelings on the subject and I realized that because abortion was not on my mind in a while, I am unsure about my position. I recall some scary times as a teenager when I felt one way and now a little older and less selfish I’m leaning another way.
The best way to figure things out is by having discussions with people of all views. The Supreme Court’s ruling on partial-birth abortion yesterday will make “the right to choose” on the top of people’s minds.
Originally I think the purpose of the button was to attract the right (leftist) girl into a flirtatious dialogue. Needless to say it turned into quite the serious conversation piece.
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The Supreme Court's ruling, which upheld a federal ban on certain late-term medical procedures (the non-medical term "partial-birth abortion" is up there with the "Final Solution" to the "Jewish Question" as a propaganda device) demeaned women to a shocking degree, using the rhetoric of the Coat-Hanger Crowd as if it were legal language. Read the whole thing for yourself; it's truly horrible.
If a female-dominated Congress tried to eliminate certain life-saving forms of prostrate or testicular surgery, while their supporters cited "the Goddess' will" in doing so, we men would revolt in horror. And rightly so.
This ruling said that non-scientists can decide which medical procedures we can have done on our bodies, even if 90% of our nation's doctors oppose such a ban. (The Congress which did so took Jack Abramoff's bribes, and ignored the middle-aged boy-chaser in their own ranks, but still legislated their morality over our bodies. Charming.)
This ruling says that any woman who makes her own sexual choices may be legally punished for so doing. (Did Hef go to jail for this result? I think not.) Let's ensure that all of us, male or female, rich or poor, make our own choices about our own bodies. Not the Congress, not the President, not the Supreme Court; each of us alone.
Either you control your own body, or you are a slave to one who does.
I think that abortion is a Gray issue that both sides of an extreme try to portray as Black or White.
I personally do not agree with abortion. It is not something that I would ever choose for myself. However I do understand the possible ramifications of making it completely illegal. I do believe that it is something that need's to be regulated. In this day and age there is no excuse for ignorance. I personally do not think that abortion should be legal past the first trimester (3 months.) For a woman to go 6, 7, or 8 months carrying a child and then say "ohh I guess now I had better get an abortion" is ignorant and selfish. With technology today a woman can find out if she is pregnant the day of her missed period.. That would make her two week's pregnant.. Why is should it be acceptable for a woman to wait 20 weeks to get an abortion?
I have seen pre-term infants born at 26 weeks (6 1/2 months).. They cry and feel pain and they struggle to survive.. and many do. If a woman wants to get a therapeutic abortion.. fine... but do it in the first three months.
I feel that many "pro-choice" advocates try to tout abortion as being empowering to women...
Well what is more empowering than making someone responsible for their own actions?..
I wonder how many pro-choice advocates feel about the situation in China.. Where many women have late term abortions when they find out they are carrying girls instead of boys.. Is this empowering to women also? It is a personal choice after all...
"It is a poverty that a child must die, so that you can continue to live as you wish." -Mother Teresa
"less selfish I’m leaning another way."
Not sure how you meant that but please remember to pay your nanny a living wage and give her health and dental benefits if you have kids and continue with your career. :)