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[julliel]

I've been surfing the net for like-minded Filipina bloggers and I find that reading articles on issues important to me very comforting.

Here is one Filipina's article on abortion.

A preview:

"The fact is, people have control over their lives- over the paths that they wanted to take. If decisions in the course of one’s existence will be

Comments

[n3o_geisha]

Lawl, I agree with your answer. ^___^ I'm pro chioce too. Yay, we have another thing in common.

[julliel]

Your icon = snickering. It's mind-boggling how Mr. Bowie could be simultaneously amusing and sexy.

[n3o_geisha]

Oh it doesn't surprise me at all. *sigh*

[dramatae]

(not related - oh, you like Bowie? I'm so glad. That's almost a requisite for being friends with me. And Labyrinth is so so good.)

I think that by being pro-choice, it's quite possible that you (and all the rest of us) actually value life more. We value the lives of women, and their rights, and the rights of the fetuses both born and aborted. Because if a woman knows that she can not raise a child, for whatever reason from money to emotional instability to the kid being a product of rape, then why should that child have to be born into that situation? [I will cut myself off here, because as a hardcore feminist and someone who's taken some gender studies, I could rant for a very long time, and it'd get boring.]

[julliel]

Another Bowie fan? I'm so relieved. n3o_geisha and I are the only ones in our group of friends that admire the man. [sigh]

I feel the exact same way! I just brought it up because my parents, being the hard-core Filipino Catholics that they are, stumbled across that issue and, after hearing me say, "I disagree", burst into lengthy, angry bouts.

I could rant for a long time too (though not as convincing or as persuasive as you, I'm sure), it just upsets me that being pro-choice implies that I support "murder" and "pre-marital sex". And my parents take out the "our roof, our rules" card so I just give up without much of a fight. Can they control how I feel? ):

(And bringing religion into the mix makes me so angry. D:<)

[dramatae]

Oh, I love Bowie. So hard. (&you can take comfort in knowing that I can name at least 10 people without even thinking who love him, too.) But then, he's a god in the rock world (and enough of a chameleon to have fit into several different scenes that I love, and influenced almost all of the modern acts I listen to), and my life's kinda steeped in rock and roll, and always has been (my dad used to drive me around in his car and play Dylan and The Beatles to get me to fall asleep when I was a baby). It's one of my... passions, I guess is the right word. Or obsessions, perhaps. What other music do you like

[dramatae]

err, I'm a pro-choicer, sorry.