Pro-Life Verses Pro-Choice

Yeah, I figured it was about time I wrote my opinion on this.  I don’t know why I titled it the way I did, because I’m not doing a debate with myself about the aspects of each, and then saying what I think.  I’m just gonna jump into what I think.  I’m neither.

On the subject of abortion, I think that it’s naive, foolish, and ignorant of people to be all for one choice or the other.  Pro-Life and Pro-Choice are far too broad for the subject of abortion, and I think it’s ridiculous for such a serious subject to put it into two categories like that.  I mean, Pro-Choice, it’s the women’s decision.  Which could generically mean that women use abortion as a form of birth control, when taken to an extreme, at least.  Pro-Life, there shouldn’t be abortions, they’re outlawed or some such, and life goes back to the way it was in the fifties when women would pay some bogus doctor 500 dollars to stick a hanger inside her.  Or they would save themselves the money and just do it alone.  Which consequently, could lead to internal bleeding and/or death.

Abortion can’t just be seperated into two categories.  I know that it’s nearly impossible to put into action, but each women’s case should be looked at individually.  I mean, if a teenage girl is drugged and date raped, or something of that nature, or if there is the matter of incest, then yes, that girl/woman should have the option of abortion, because in some cases, (NOT all, but SOME,) that may be a better alternative to carrying the child for nine months, and giving birth, then giving it up for adoption, or caring for the child herself.  Especially in the case of incest, or drugged and date raped, that hatred for the man who did this to her could potentially carry over to the child, and cause more problems.  Abuse, just to name one.

Now, what about those sixteen, seventeen, eighteen year olds who decide to screw with their boyfriends and wind up pregnant in high school?  “Oh, I don’t know how this happened!!”  Boo-hoo, you moron.  You had sex.  Gee, I wonder why you’re pregnant.  (And no, Dolly, I’m not writing that as anything against you.  I do know that your situation was different, and the day you seriously consider an abortion is the day I renounce my fanship to the Beatles and Lord of the Rings.)

Anyway, honestly, I think that the people like that should no only be made to healthily carry that child to term, but also, forced to drop out of high school the year the pregnancy happens, and then reinstated the following year to finish off whatever high school she missed.  The baby could either be cared for by the actual mother, or during those nine months of her pregnancy, she could be finding a suitable family to adopt her child.  But frankly, I don’t think abortion should be allowed here, because you kow what?  She made the “mature” decision to have sex, so she should have to deal with the consequences.  Not just get rid of the consequences, as if nothing ever happened.

Now, before you all decide to jump on me, asking how can I think there are no consequences to having an abortion, I know there are.  I know that there are counselors specifically designated to help girls/women deal with having had an abortion.  And I know that for some women, dealing wth an abortion is worse than dealing with giving their baby up for adoption.

But that’s also all the more reason for not allowing a teenage girl to have one.  If they became pregnant because they decided they were grown up enough to deal with the consequences of having sex with their boyfrined, then let them deal with the consequences of caring for the child, or giving it up for adoption.  I will say that they’re probably going through enough, mentally, with the “shock” of pregnancy, and will not be in a healthy mindset to deal with the choice of abortion.

Now, the older women.  The wome who have a husband, have a house, do have the finances to be able to care for a baby.  Frankly, if those women get pregnant, and say that they want an abortion, I think that they should be charged with attempted murder.  I mean, they have the means to care for, and about, the child, they have a husband, a house etc., yet they don’t want a child?  I can see careers coming first, and therefore not having the time to properly care for a child that they conceive, but you know what?  If that’s the case, then don’t conceive in the first place!  I’m not gonna say that husbands and wive shouldn’t have the option of having sex, but if they don’t want children, even if it’s a mindset of “Not at this point in time,” then the women should gether tubes tied, or the man should get a visectomy.  (<—Sp?)  Because even if they can’t conceive their own child later on when they are ready for children, they can adopt.  I just see it as selfishness on a woman’s part if they have the ability and the means to care for a child, but decide they’d rather have an abortion because it’s “an inconvenient time” in their lives.

I know I haven’t covered every type of situation there is with this subject, but these are the ones that came into my head while I was writing.  I do appreciate views on this, but please, don’t be insulting.  I’m sick of all the different arguments that start over topics with abortion.  I don’t mind your opinion, but I won’t tolerate A) Superior know-nothing know-it-alls who think that their opinion is the only right, and therefore valid, one.  B) People who are going to tell me that because I condone abortion in one case, that means I’m condoning murder.  And C) People who just want to be insulting, start an argument, etc.  If you do any of those three things, I will report you, and then we’ll see if the diary master’s new IP address thing for deleting diaries works.