by Fleurdelis

Created on: April 02, 2009

I will only make a suggestion that everyone should bear in mind when it comes to debating abortion and who should pay for it and whether or not the government should even be involved in the first place.

When tax funds are exacted from American citizens, they go into a "pool," that pool is under the control of the Fed. It's not "our" money or "my" money. Once it hits that pool, it's everyone's money - all who contributed therein.

Therefore, there are many people who contribute to that pool of tax funds who DO support abortion and do believe in a woman's right to choose. Who wins that argument?

It's not about the tax money being spent and who doesn't like it or why they don't like it, it's about the ethics and the morality of making a qualified decision. A woman should always have to deal with the ethics and morality of her own situation, after all, she is the one who has to live with it. Whether or not a woman should have the same rights as a man is overstating the obvious. The man isn't the one who has to carry nor serve as the primary caregiver for that child-so it's not his decision to make; even if they are married. A woman who includes a man in that decision is being more than fair, I believe.

But there is another side. I also believe a woman's right to choose began with her right to say no to having sex in the first place; however, that's beside the point.

There are some pretty horrible parents out here who don't do anything but abuse and abandon their kids anyway-the ones who SHOULD have aborted and didn't. I could draw the issue of race into this argument, but that's another conversation for a whole new day.

That said, nobody has the right to tell a woman what to do with her body unless they are planning on being held personally responsible for or prepared to take on the consequences themselves. If you can't afford to take care of that woman's child yourself-out of your own pocket, notwithstanding ALL of our tax money; you can't afford to force her to have a baby if that's not what she wants.

But there is the other side of a very gray issue, why even get pregnant in the first place? The option is always there not to even allow it to happen. Tubal ligations (for men and women) and uterus or overy removal works when nothing else does, not even the best and most infallible birth control available on the market.

People who don't want kids shouldn't put themselves in a position to have them; the choice is theirs before a pregnancy takes place, and it "cuts (excuse the pun) both ways.

In the final analysis, why take a life when the option is there not to form one in the first place? It almost seems like a debate we shouldn't be having.

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