Nothing like good debate
I'm pro choice, for starters.
I cannot understand the pro-lifers who say, "I don't agree with abortion unless the girl was raped. Women who have consented sex and get pregnant are selfish for having an abortion." (along those lines.)
Why? What makes RAPE so different? That it's unfair to bring a child into the world that was conceived through violence? Should this child not be born under the knowledge that it was not planned for and unwanted? As sometimes THIS is the case, it can be argued that children who are conceived, even through consented but PROTECTED sex that failed, {condoms, birth control pills, etc.;} are the same. An unwanted/unplanned for fetus growing inside of a woman who was raped is the same as the unwanted/unplanned for fetus in growing inside of the woman who's birth control failed.
Is it to protect the woman who does not want to live with a child who would remind her of that horrible occurrence that some pro-lifers overlook her abortion? Would that not make her selfish? Would that not make her as placing HER needs above her child's? Would that not make her much like the women who conceived through consented sex?
And if the mindset is, women who have consented sex should be ready to be mothers, what about married [ any, for that matter ] women who don't want children yet? Are they supposed to turn to their husbands and say, "No, dear, I'm sorry, but I don't want children yet and SOMETIMES birth control fails. We can't have sex."?
And while there is ALWAYS adoption, naturally, as some people are strongly pro-life or strongly pro-choice, some people feel that they COULD NOT put up a child they carried and nurtured for nine months for adoption. What about them? Are THEY the ones who should not have sex at all?
Just some brain candy to chew on.
I cannot understand the pro-lifers who say, "I don't agree with abortion unless the girl was raped. Women who have consented sex and get pregnant are selfish for having an abortion." (along those lines.)
Why? What makes RAPE so different? That it's unfair to bring a child into the world that was conceived through violence? Should this child not be born under the knowledge that it was not planned for and unwanted? As sometimes THIS is the case, it can be argued that children who are conceived, even through consented but PROTECTED sex that failed, {condoms, birth control pills, etc.;} are the same. An unwanted/unplanned for fetus growing inside of a woman who was raped is the same as the unwanted/unplanned for fetus in growing inside of the woman who's birth control failed.
Is it to protect the woman who does not want to live with a child who would remind her of that horrible occurrence that some pro-lifers overlook her abortion? Would that not make her selfish? Would that not make her as placing HER needs above her child's? Would that not make her much like the women who conceived through consented sex?
And if the mindset is, women who have consented sex should be ready to be mothers, what about married [ any, for that matter ] women who don't want children yet? Are they supposed to turn to their husbands and say, "No, dear, I'm sorry, but I don't want children yet and SOMETIMES birth control fails. We can't have sex."?
And while there is ALWAYS adoption, naturally, as some people are strongly pro-life or strongly pro-choice, some people feel that they COULD NOT put up a child they carried and nurtured for nine months for adoption. What about them? Are THEY the ones who should not have sex at all?
Just some brain candy to chew on.