a friend gave me this link to a LJ that she thought i might find interesting…
http://www.livejournal.com/users/naamah_darling/
the 9/14 post was definitely more than interesting. i’ve always found that reading other pov’s augment my own perception into the world. maybe that’s the voyeur in me…i need to know what’s happening in your head, in your heart.
so, i read this LJ and her rant…in a nutshell (if you don’t want to read the whole thing), it’s how she reconciles her views on abortion in general (she’s pro-choice) and her views of abortion as it pertains to her own morality. the writer believes that abortion is murder, but she believes in a woman’s choice. abortion laws shouldn’t be a moral issue. the courts are deciding on a woman’s right to choose, not whether the act is moral. morality is a personal issue. as she puts it:
Is it better to allow a woman her choice, knowing she may do an evil in some cases, or is it better to remove that choice, and therefore most assuredly commit an evil in every case? That is the true question, and one I begged everyone to consider.
my belief is this…while i don’t consider a fetus to be a parasite (as some people do) i believe life begins when you can sustain life as an individual being. if you are fully dependent upon a host for vital life functions, how can you be thought of as alive? if i was braindead, and depended on a machine to breathe for me, or for it to circulate blood through my body because my brain has lost the ability to control that, how can i be considered alive?
but no matter what your personal beliefs are, what it boils down to is this…do you want to decide for you, or do you want someone sitting in an oval office to decide for you what’s best for you. and if you take away my right to choose for me, what are you going to take away next? when do we, as citizens of a democratic country where the motto is home of the brave, land of the free, say it’s too much?
so i guess the next logical question for anyone to pose to a hardcore pro-choice advocate is…”would you get an abortion if you were pregnant”…
the answer is yes…and no.
i had a pregnancy scare years ago. i was young, in school, broke more often than not. if you would’ve asked me then, the answer would have been a resounding yes. i would’ve had to make a choice of what’s good for me.
now, at 29, if i was pregnant…i would have it. because i’m able to care for a baby, both financially and emotionally (though medically, it’d be a difficult pregnancy). my life would not crumble to a undiscernable pile of nothing with an addition of a child. again, i choose what’s good for me.
i cannot hope to be as eloquent as this woman’s post…but these are my two cents into the world…