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Once, I browsed a journal of a person in one of my fandoms known for pretty icons. It was full of political stuff, a lot of it pro-Bush. No, what sticks out was her post on legalized induced abortion. Let's not forget, miscarriage is essentially a biological termination of a pregnancy. It feels like a death if you wanted a child, and a reprieve if you did not.
Her entire reason for her stance against it? "It's gross."
I wonder how she'd feel about the illegal sort? Or the methods used by women who cannot get medically supervised abortions? Warning, very graphic.
Somewhere, considering all the women who get them however I feel about or what the law said, I blinked.
If I care for the 'pre-born', what do I say to the women who don't want to have more children? How can I say they will be supported after birth if they are not, and no one will think to do it?
I couldn't consider myself 'pro-life' if I only cared about embroyos. Yet, I sense if I talk about it with my family, I am declaring war against Mom and apple pie.
No.
It's not about a right to be born, like I had heard from anti-abortionists.
It's about living life by the small still voice, even if it's saying stuff other people might not like. This is not a license to do 'whatever you want.' This is believing that you are, for the most part, capable of deciding about the rightness of your ethical code, of figuring out the effects of your actions. Maybe realizing that Christianity, for the most part, did believe we were all naturally wrong, turned me off.
Even religions against abortions do not agree when it is OK. When the woman's life is in danger? Incest? Rape? All those fluffy miracle stories of raped women loving their babies and saving of awful diseases do not address the possibility that human intervention is needed? If abortion is murder, why isn't war, why isn't government and corporate neglect, why is murder excuable by 'homosexual panic' or 'crime of passion'?
I got no answer to these, so I did not seek to recriminalize abortion anymore.
If I had more patience and more thought, I could figure out a way to stop poverty, greed, bigotry. I could find a way to weave through the problems of class, race, disability, and who is to do what.
These are all the things I was taught were the real cause of too many people and not enough to eat. Not enough space was never really dealt with.
It seems like a lot of conversion stories are about being for legalized abortion to being against it.
Here is possibly a rare instance of someone who went the other way. Even I wonder if I seem like a libertine because of it.
Yeah, yeah, I may be not 'mainstream' sexually (though to judge by swinger subculture, maybe I am not correct). Doesn't mean I do not have the same concerns as a teenage virgin with more desires than outlets. How to harm the fewest amount of people while allowing for people to do the most good.
(We never think of people not being allowed to do good, until we consider slavery, the Shoah, etc)
I stopped being part of a philosophy that regarded embroyos as human but would not grant it to women. It seemed that evil 'pro-abortion' folks were donating to battered women's shelters, pushing for workplace protection, and talking about equal pay. If you don't work, you don't eat, you can't take care of a kid, much less feed it in its emboryotic stage.
Then I faced one question: what if the woman doesn't want a kid even when they can take care of it? What if she knows that mental illness will be made even harder? What about in a society where her group or her sex is chattel?
If I bang the abstract principle of 'protection of human life' over the head, will I end up violating it?
I would be.
Once, I browsed a journal of a person in one of my fandoms known for pretty icons. It was full of political stuff, a lot of it pro-Bush. No, what sticks out was her post on legalized induced abortion. Let's not forget, miscarriage is essentially a biological termination of a pregnancy. It feels like a death if you wanted a child, and a reprieve if you did not.
Her entire reason for her stance against it? "It's gross."
I wonder how she'd feel about the illegal sort? Or the methods used by women who cannot get medically supervised abortions? Warning, very graphic.
Somewhere, considering all the women who get them however I feel about or what the law said, I blinked.
If I care for the 'pre-born', what do I say to the women who don't want to have more children? How can I say they will be supported after birth if they are not, and no one will think to do it?
I couldn't consider myself 'pro-life' if I only cared about embroyos. Yet, I sense if I talk about it with my family, I am declaring war against Mom and apple pie.
No.
It's not about a right to be born, like I had heard from anti-abortionists.
It's about living life by the small still voice, even if it's saying stuff other people might not like. This is not a license to do 'whatever you want.' This is believing that you are, for the most part, capable of deciding about the rightness of your ethical code, of figuring out the effects of your actions. Maybe realizing that Christianity, for the most part, did believe we were all naturally wrong, turned me off.
Even religions against abortions do not agree when it is OK. When the woman's life is in danger? Incest? Rape? All those fluffy miracle stories of raped women loving their babies and saving of awful diseases do not address the possibility that human intervention is needed? If abortion is murder, why isn't war, why isn't government and corporate neglect, why is murder excuable by 'homosexual panic' or 'crime of passion'?
I got no answer to these, so I did not seek to recriminalize abortion anymore.
If I had more patience and more thought, I could figure out a way to stop poverty, greed, bigotry. I could find a way to weave through the problems of class, race, disability, and who is to do what.
These are all the things I was taught were the real cause of too many people and not enough to eat. Not enough space was never really dealt with.
It seems like a lot of conversion stories are about being for legalized abortion to being against it.
Here is possibly a rare instance of someone who went the other way. Even I wonder if I seem like a libertine because of it.
Yeah, yeah, I may be not 'mainstream' sexually (though to judge by swinger subculture, maybe I am not correct). Doesn't mean I do not have the same concerns as a teenage virgin with more desires than outlets. How to harm the fewest amount of people while allowing for people to do the most good.
(We never think of people not being allowed to do good, until we consider slavery, the Shoah, etc)
I stopped being part of a philosophy that regarded embroyos as human but would not grant it to women. It seemed that evil 'pro-abortion' folks were donating to battered women's shelters, pushing for workplace protection, and talking about equal pay. If you don't work, you don't eat, you can't take care of a kid, much less feed it in its emboryotic stage.
Then I faced one question: what if the woman doesn't want a kid even when they can take care of it? What if she knows that mental illness will be made even harder? What about in a society where her group or her sex is chattel?
If I bang the abstract principle of 'protection of human life' over the head, will I end up violating it?
I would be.
