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Add to FavoritesWalking down a Boston street, between where I was staying and the coffee shop I choose that morning was a Planned Parent Hood. The building was nondescript, the store front would easily blend with its surroundings where it not for the famous name and its controversial connotations. Something else made this particular block unique- the men. Older men, white hair and slightly overweight, casually dressed and throwing their bulk in the direction of any woman brave enough to cross their path. They where obviously on a mission, pamphlets and bible in hand. As I passed them, I made eye contact with one of the men, gave what must have seemed like a very weak smile and tried to pass by. He was quickly by my side, demanding if I was going to kill my child, If i was there for an abortion. I pointed to the coffee shop, and walked by as fast as I could.What struck me must about these men was not their bibles or aggressive manners though, bibles and aggression are the backbone of anti-choice demonstrators, but their gender was significant. Men making dictating choices they could never dream of understanding, or making for themselves.
Rape, a one night stand, a committed family who can't afford one more... those in need of an abortion take all forms and despite our moral problems with how they live their lives, if the abortion is an early term abortion it should be allowed no questions asked. This is not a form of population control, their are no ulterior motives it's very simple: a woman must be able to choose, the life of the already existing, the already contributing, thinking and rationalizing is always more important than a non viable fetus. It is so terribly unfortunate that this decision must be faced, but mistakes are a part of humanity. Teens and adults experience the pain of the gravity of the situation and their own personal beliefs but ultimately no one can, or should decide to carry a child except for the woman pregnant.
The implications of forcing a woman to carry a child against her will are incalculable to both child and mother. The mother is far less likely to partake in pre-natal care and more likely to engage in risky behavior. Not all unwanted children are given up for adoption, they are raised in harmful environments, they might not be given proper care or flat out be neglected. The woman, if single will face accusations and judgement from the people want her to not abort the child. She may be shunned from her family or her community. The stress of such could only encourage more risky behavior both while pregnant and after the child is born. It is unfair to for children into the world when they are, instead of discarded simply treated as trash. Another unfortunate fact is not all children given up for adoption are adopted. The children born with developmental problems due to poor prenatal care, the children taken away after years of neglect often float through the system unloved, only their Basic needs met and most likely becoming part of the welfare problem right wingers, and many anti choicers bemoan.
Abortion should only be the choice of the woman, no one should be able to dictate another's body.
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A woman, a female, should never have the right to kill another female or male. Woman's rights is the rallying call. 'Woman's right to choose.' 'Woman's body.' You must look to the real evil in this confused issue to see a clear answer.
A woman does not, in most states in this country, have a right to decide whether or not they'll protect their child by using a car seat from the instant they are brought out to a car. It is the law. In many cases, the hospital staff will insist on seeing, not only that they have a car seat for the infant, but many times they will inspect that it is properly fastened into the back seat of the car before they release that child. No choice.
However, if a woman in labor suddenly decides that she doesn't want the child and that she is so selfish she would rather have it violently murdered as soon as the top of it's head is exposed to the promise of life, rather give it up for adoption, the laws in many states allow a doctor to slice the spinal cord, wait for the infant's life to end in the birth canal and then drop the limp murdered infant into the rubbish and call it a late term abortion. Yes, it is a graphic and ugly picture and it is the law in many states.
Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, saw abortion as a way to purify the human race. She called the poor and minorities things like reckless breeders who must be stopped. She wasn't looking out for woman's rights, woman's mental health or woman's physical health. She was a racist looking for a way to cut down the populations in the poor and racially diverse segments of the world, as she saw these women and men as inferior human beings. She felt that extinguishing these groups of people would better the world.
In this debate, the case of rape always comes up. The government doesn't imprison a rapist's child along with the father as they lay no blame on his children for his crime. No woman has ever been forced by law to keep a child conceived in such a horrible and violent act. The woman has a choice to give up that child for adoption.
Society sends the wrong message to young people on this issue which is why they are confused and this leads to horrific acts, such as teens giving birth in a bathroom and throwing the infant in the rubbish.
They are instructed by such institutions as Planned Parenthood that the baby is more a burden than a blessing and they can chose whether it lives or dies. False statements such as, a fetus is not a person until after it's born, can and does confuse young people into taking 'the easy way out'. They're told that they can have another baby later in life. They are not told that it won't be this baby, the one with the red hair and button nose, or the blond boy with long legs perfect for a basketball career. It is only years later when these women experience the birth of a live, healthy baby that the guilt of the one or many they paid a clinic or hospital to kill, comes back to haunt them.
There are millions of dead babies and millions of women who believed all of the propaganda that fooled them into thinking that they were simply expelling a sub-human creature which would foul up their lives forever. For the babies, it's long over, they are gone forever. For the women, they must face the fact of the murder for hire that took their child or in many cases, children. It's created post traumatic stress in many who have had to deal with the actions they took without understanding the facts.
A human life is a precious gift with promise. Girl or boy, white, black or brown, no one, not even the child's mother should have the right to take that life away.
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