AtlantaGirl
The conservatists that want government out of our lives have the extreme audacity to tell a woman she cannot decide to terminate a pregnancy? Yes I know I am opening a moral can of worms but at what point does a person's personal moral decision remain just that? Doing drugs and crime are personal moral decisions but those can affect other people. A drug induced state can affect other people (that person behind the wheel of a car) but so can alcoholism but we won't go there.
And abortion is a moral issue both ways. How about the morality of not bringing a child into the world you do not want or cannot raise? You want a woman to have a kid she cannot raise yet bark about public assistance? If you don’t want abortion than you don’t want birth control, right? Is preventing a baby from forming the natural way worse than aborting it once it starts? It’s easy as pie to make a baby. Any 13 year old could do it. Imagine if every time everyone had sex they got pregnant. Should they have that baby? Should everyone immature 15 year old, horny club going 20 year old, middle aged working adult indulging in a night of passion, or god forbid prostitute (at the extreme) that has sex get pregnant and have that child? The world’s population would soar dangerously high.
You force a woman who’s not ready or willing or able to have a child. Then what? She magically decides that motherhood is great? Sometimes yes but what about the others? Does she resent the child and her life? Neglect the child, take it out on them? Now there’s daycare, taking off work (if she can afford it) baby expenses, schooling. Not everyone can make a great parent, you don’t have to be great, but there’s so much involved. Commitment in that child’s life financially, mentally, socially, scholastically. For a lifetime. Not just until 18- a lifetime. Do we want society full of unwanted individuals? All will not turn out bad but it is inevitable some would start out with a bad beginning.
Okay there's adoption- that's okay in some cases but not all. You make a woman go through 9 month’s of pregnancy? That's not easy. Do you know what pregnancy does to some woman’s bodies? Sometimes the effects are irreversible and can lead to major self esteem issues. What if she wants to save that experience for her husband? What will her family, friends, future boyfriends think? How will her job react? Taking off work for all those scheduled doctors appointments, and then for labor and time thereafter, and then to be with a newborn. Just to put them in daycare at an early age when both, mother and child, should be bonding. Then there’s the buying of new maternity clothes (if you can afford it), the inability to work- some, not at all, depending on their job. The shame of being pregnant- maybe unmarried, young, poor. The hospital costs and stays. The mental piece of having to give a child up-and knowing that while you're carrying it. That is hard. The woman carries that with her for life. The child carries that with them for life.
Of course it's bad to relinquish a soul- how do we know that soul can't or doesn't find another entry point?? Some infants die in the womb, some are miscarried, some are born dead, some die young. Do they not get another chance??
We're not living in colonial times where we needed to procreate. The population is at a healthy level now, and in some cases may be increasing too fast. Now we risk financial, mental, and social stigmas from unwanted or unanticipated pregnancies.
And abortion is a moral issue both ways. How about the morality of not bringing a child into the world you do not want or cannot raise? You want a woman to have a kid she cannot raise yet bark about public assistance? If you don’t want abortion than you don’t want birth control, right? Is preventing a baby from forming the natural way worse than aborting it once it starts? It’s easy as pie to make a baby. Any 13 year old could do it. Imagine if every time everyone had sex they got pregnant. Should they have that baby? Should everyone immature 15 year old, horny club going 20 year old, middle aged working adult indulging in a night of passion, or god forbid prostitute (at the extreme) that has sex get pregnant and have that child? The world’s population would soar dangerously high.
You force a woman who’s not ready or willing or able to have a child. Then what? She magically decides that motherhood is great? Sometimes yes but what about the others? Does she resent the child and her life? Neglect the child, take it out on them? Now there’s daycare, taking off work (if she can afford it) baby expenses, schooling. Not everyone can make a great parent, you don’t have to be great, but there’s so much involved. Commitment in that child’s life financially, mentally, socially, scholastically. For a lifetime. Not just until 18- a lifetime. Do we want society full of unwanted individuals? All will not turn out bad but it is inevitable some would start out with a bad beginning.
Okay there's adoption- that's okay in some cases but not all. You make a woman go through 9 month’s of pregnancy? That's not easy. Do you know what pregnancy does to some woman’s bodies? Sometimes the effects are irreversible and can lead to major self esteem issues. What if she wants to save that experience for her husband? What will her family, friends, future boyfriends think? How will her job react? Taking off work for all those scheduled doctors appointments, and then for labor and time thereafter, and then to be with a newborn. Just to put them in daycare at an early age when both, mother and child, should be bonding. Then there’s the buying of new maternity clothes (if you can afford it), the inability to work- some, not at all, depending on their job. The shame of being pregnant- maybe unmarried, young, poor. The hospital costs and stays. The mental piece of having to give a child up-and knowing that while you're carrying it. That is hard. The woman carries that with her for life. The child carries that with them for life.
Of course it's bad to relinquish a soul- how do we know that soul can't or doesn't find another entry point?? Some infants die in the womb, some are miscarried, some are born dead, some die young. Do they not get another chance??
We're not living in colonial times where we needed to procreate. The population is at a healthy level now, and in some cases may be increasing too fast. Now we risk financial, mental, and social stigmas from unwanted or unanticipated pregnancies.
