| ♠ Wednesday, 14th of April, 2010 ♠ |
While reading the comments on an article about the new abortion laws in Nebraska, I came across this lovely little gem:
Lol Mediahater, isn't that the truth.
The simple fact is: You have a choice of whether or not to have a baby, BEFORE YOU GET PREGNANT!
Sorry, were you a victim of rape? Well, I'm sorry to hear that but you still have to raise this INNOCENT child. No one said life was fair.
Oh, what's that? You can't afford it? Well you should have thought about that before you got pregnant. Again, pony up and start making correct choices financially in life and things will pan out. Do you really think your financial situation (which is entirely your own doing) trumps a life?
Your a medical risk and having the baby might kill you? After you've exhausted all medical options (since you decided to get pregnant), start praying that you make it through. Again, you've lived a life and it's your turn to give another a chance. Is there a better way to go out? Oh, you have other children? Well, I hope you're a god-fearing person and have picked out god-parents.
It's actually very simple, the pro-choice movement. You can choose not to have a baby until you're pregnant.
If you make a choice to kill the baby inside you it was all because you were too afraid of the responsibility or too lazy. Period. The liberal mindset that it's okay to slaughter Womb-Angels® because it's just "too hard" on you is filling this nation with people who cannot deal with their responsibilities. Listen to that again.
Life is about your ability to respond, or responsibility. Don't fail yourself.
Oh. Oh God. There are so, so many things I want to say and do to this jackass that may or may not include ripping his balls off and force-feeding them to him, but because I am a calm, rational person, I shall simple point out the disgusting fallacy and ignorant contractions there within.
(Also let me state beforehand that I consider a baby by it's correct medical term, a fetus, until 22-24 weeks, when it can live outside the womb. Then it's a baby. But before that? It's a fetus. Just to clear up any ensuing confusion.)
1) The simple fact is: You have a choice of whether or not to have a baby, BEFORE YOU GET PREGNANT!
Okay, one word: rape. I highly doubt that anyone who commits rape is going to be thoughtful enough to use protection, and not every woman takes birth control. There is no way that any woman would ever choose to become pregnant from a rape, it just happens.
2) Sorry, were you a victim of rape? Well, I'm sorry to hear that but you still have to raise this INNOCENT child. No one said life was fair.
What? What? You just said that people choose to become pregnant, and now you bring up rape? What kind of contradictory bullshit is that? Oh, and you're sorry that someone got raped but you want them to have the kid anyway? Newflash, dickface: getting rape is emotionally and mentally crippling in ways that you cannot even imagine. The vast majority of woman aren't normally strong enough to deal with the burden of an unwanted child, nevermind an unwanted child that is the byproduct of an attacker who violated them in the worst possible way. I'd like to see you do it.
3) Oh, what's that? You can't afford it? Well you should have thought about that before you got pregnant. Again, pony up and start making correct choices financially in life and things will pan out. Do you really think your financial situation (which is entirely your own doing) trumps a life?
First, there are plenty of reason it may not be the woman's fault, like, say, oh I don't know, she's a teenager? Or better yet, she's a teenager and her parents kicked her out for being pregnant? You honestly think that kind of situation is the girl's fault? Because I'll let you in on a little secret: it's not.
And what's more, if the mother can't afford to have the baby, then having it anyway isn't going to change that. Instead that baby will grow up in an environment where it can't get everything it needs, physically and most likely emotionally as well. It will be neglected, possibly even abused. Is that really the kind of environment that you should be raising a child in?
4) Your a medical risk and having the baby might kill you? After you've exhausted all medical options (since you decided to get pregnant), start praying that you make it through. Again, you've lived a life and it's your turn to give another a chance. Is there a better way to go out? Oh, you have other children? Well, I hope you're a god-fearing person and have picked out god-parents.
Yeah, because if you're fourteen and that baby is going to kill you, you've totally lived your life to it's fullest and there's no more need for you at all. Also, when a fetus is putting its mother at risk, a good majority of the time it's because there's something wrong with it, and that in turn is causing complications with the mother, and thusly if she has it, they could, and probably will, both die. Saving the mother's life isn't a crime when there's a small chance the baby will make it anyway is the more medically sound conclusion, jerk.
And as for the other children? Children, living, breathing ones that can survive outside the womb should never, ever, ever have a loving mother taken away from them if possible (note the loving; there are mothers out there that should never have been mothers). They will suffer years of emotional turmoil, particularly if her sacrifice turns out to be for nothing. Remember, not all stories wrap up nicely like they do on medical dramas. And as for the godparents, not everyone is Christian and not everyone has someone they can depend upon to take care of their children, in which case they will probably end up in foster care, moving around from place to place, with lots of other damaged children, often neglected and abused. Not that all foster care is like that, but many times, that's what ends up happening.
5) If you make a choice to kill the baby inside you it was all because you were too afraid of the responsibility or too lazy. Period. The liberal mindset that it's okay to slaughter Womb-Angels® because it's just "too hard" on you is filling this nation with people who cannot deal with their responsibilities. Listen to that again.
Okay, again: rape. Teenagers. I respect and admire the woman and girls who do take on the responsibility of having a baby, because it was their choice, but not everyone can do that. The responsibility of taking care of a child is enormous, and many women and girls recognize the fact that they won't be able to deal with it, not because they're lazy.
I will finish this by saying that I am, obviously, Pro-Choice. Why? Because it's a woman's choice. It is her body. It is her burden. We as outsiders may look at her and think we know what it going through her mind, but unless you have been in that situation, how many of us can really say that we know what she is going through? And each situation is different, from the high-powered business woman who doesn't have time for a baby to the four teenager who made a dumb decision and finds herself trapped. What about the women who might die? Or the ones who were raped? Or the ones who have been abandoned by the father, or worse, their families? Think about them, because what it really comes down to is this:
You don't know her story, why she did it or why she didn't, why she might or why she won't.
You are not the one who is pregnant.
You are not the one who will have to raise that child, to give it your unconditional love and attention.
You are not the one who will have to deal with the emotional and mental fallout.
Unless you are in the situation yourself, you have no right to pass judgement on her, because it is not your body.
It is her body.
It is her choice.
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