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January 22, 2007
Blog for Choice Day
It's Blog for Choice Day, people, so here I am.
Choice is one of the topics guaranteed to set me off. Hell, over the weekend I was in a car with two people who completely agree with me on the topic and I could still feel my blood pressure skyrocket when it came up.
The reasons for this are very, very simple:
- No method of birth control is 100% effective (even abstinence - penetrative rape often involves ejaculation).
- I am adamantly unwilling to have a child - just being around babies gives me the creeps.
- The thought of becoming pregant and being unable to procure a safe, legal abortion makes me want to throw up. No, I am not exaggerating for comedic effect. Just thinking about it while I type this makes me feel queasy.
There are a bajillion arguments on both sides about why women should or shouldn't be able to get abortions safely and legally, but it all boils down to this: is it right to try to force a woman to carry and birth a child she does not want?
I believe the answer is no.
Therefore, I am pro-choice.
File under: Political Schtuff
Posted by Ealasaid at January 22, 2007 10:43 AM
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Being around babies gives you the creeps? :) Is it the bobble-head action? Or maybe the fact that their eyes don't quite focus... Wait! It's the spit bubbles, milky residue on their tongues and shirt-staining spit-up! The diapers, it's gotta be the diapers. I'll keep this in mind and you can meet Mal when he's walking, talking, eating solid foods and potty-trained! Or when he's eight, that's the magic age when they are no longer people larvae and actually become people! :)
Posted by: Noe at January 22, 2007 09:45 PM
regardless of being pro choice or pro life, I'd never agree with the government deciding whats best for any human body. Bottom line; the government needs to stay out. Making abortion illegal will only cause more problems, like back ally abortions, fake drugs, and even more unwanted babies.
Posted by: keith at January 23, 2007 11:39 AM
I know what you mean about being set off, even if there's no disagreement. I guess I feel like this is such a significant issue that I can't speak casually about it; I have to be in full forensic mode or else not talk at all. And not talking at all is difficult, since I have so much to say. :-)
-A
Posted by: Alex Summers at January 23, 2007 01:44 PM
Noe: It's... all of those and something else. Yanno how one can get a "vibe" off people? I get a really creepy vibe off babies. Like they're not really there. I get it off small kids, too. Some days it doesn't bother me, but most days it does. Gah. It's the same vibe I get of my grandma, who is in the last stages of Alzheimer's, and off the mentally handicapped. It just... unnerves me. Maybe it's because I don't have any siblings and never babysat really little kids.
Keith: YES YES YES! Women dying, their bodies becoming crime scenes they way they are in some South American countries (where there are actually vagina inspectors on the police force who examine women who have 'miscarried' to see if they had an abortion), etc. ICK.
Alex: Yep, you and I are on the same page!!
Posted by: Ealasaid at January 23, 2007 03:49 PM
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