What is this.
I have so much anger right now, so many negative feels.
This is a scholar's class. We all know what a debate is. We know how debates work.
What I don't understand why we can't debate our ideas without attacking each other.
You know, I hate abortions. I can't condone ending a life. This is said without being in that situation--I've never been pregnant, I can't know for certain that I wouldn't. But it makes me so very very sad.
However, I cannot tell another person that they can't control their own body. I control my body by making decisions about what I do with it. I have options. I have strong, personal opinions about abortion. But I'm not going to push them onto others.
Why can't people understand that you can have a personal opinion, one that doesn't affect others? I hurt so much for all of the babies that could have been. But I would be idiotic and shortsighted if I didn't acknowledge that many would have been born into poor circumstances, would have been impoverished, and would have been resented. I can understand the other side. I can understand that my choice of what I do with my body is not the same as another woman's choice, but that she has the right to make that choice. And it doesn't affect me in any way other than that I feel sorrow for the potential lives.
And don't forget the 25% of pregnancies that end spontaneously.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I think we can both agree that the best way to help the problem is to prevent un-planned pregnancies in the first place.