Why I’m pro-choice, the bottom line
filed in Uncategorized on Mar.18, 2002
To me, the question of where life begins doesn’t even matter in the issue of whether abortion should be legal or not. The bottom line is, do you care more about a woman, or the remote possibility of a child? I’ve never been one for faith, so I have to go with the woman that we already know about rather than gambling on what the potential child might become.
Besides, it makes no sense to advocate increasing birth rates while you’re cutting education.
Mar 18th, 2002 on 8:33 am
You’re my favorite person I don’t know.
Umm. That was supposed to be a compliment.
::wanders off::
Mar 18th, 2002 on 9:37 am
A lot of times, it seems to me that, logic and rhetoric aside, the real issue behind pro-life vs. pro-choice is attitudes on promiscuity and pre-marital sex.
But maybe I’m just reading a lot into it.
Mar 18th, 2002 on 9:49 am
Isn’t he darn cool?
Mar 18th, 2002 on 9:52 am
The darndest. Or the darn coolest. I can’t decide.
Mar 18th, 2002 on 11:08 am
I’m with you, Alex, for many other reasons as well.
Mar 18th, 2002 on 12:43 pm
Wow, thanks! I always love reading the stories about your life. You’re so fearless.
Mar 18th, 2002 on 12:46 pm
I think you’re right. Some people look at unwanted children as the punishment for being promiscuous. I think that doesn’t make any sense, because why would you want to force someone to have a child they don’t want? Even if they put it up for adoption, they’re not going to change their lifestyle for nine months so something they hate can have a better chance.
Mar 18th, 2002 on 1:03 pm
Excellent.
People use the whole ‘promiscuity’ issue as a rationalization and a dodge.
People want to have some control in their lives. They think that by placing names and blames on things that that means they can control things they see/encounter and dislike — even things that do not affect them personally.
That’s why the “emergency contraception is giving the green light” argument so amuses me. Teenagers will have sex because teenagers are curious and America, for all the good in the country, is surprisingly uptight and puritanical about sex [among other things] — which is why we have the high teenage pregnancy rate, because sex has such a mystique, a taboo about it. And any teenager immediately will leap to try anything with a mystique, a taboo about it.
The same is true for teenage drinking. In Europe, the kids are allowed a little wine at a young age, so there’s not this ‘ooh, what’s the big deal?!?’ curiosity that drives kids to do stupid things involving it.
But the truth of it is that no manner of emergency contraception will do anything to stop the unwanted pregnancy rate, and unwanted pregnancies are not punishments for promiscuity. Even people who have long standing relationships with one partner have pregnancies turn up when they’re not ready for them.
It boggles me that people don’t see the lack of logic, but when you’re emotionally attached to a situation, logic is not always easy to come by.
Saddest of all, that last bit.
Mar 18th, 2002 on 2:14 pm
An anecdote about teen pregnancy
I lived in a sleepy little mountain town for a few of my teenage years. The nearest city was an hour away, and there was nothing for kids to do but go to dinner, go to movies, and have sex. When the religious segment of town forced the local Planned Parenthood office to close, the teen pregnancy rate skyrocketed.
Mar 19th, 2002 on 12:07 pm
i am also adamantly pro-choice, but i don’t like abortion. not at all