Apparently, there's a lot of people out there who think that a woman should not have a right to an abortion. Some will give exceptions (rape, incest) to their opinion, but a larger portion of the anti-choice people hold their stance across the board, regardless of circumstances.
Here's a newsflash for those folks: Nobody Asked You. Don't confuse what you believe is right or wrong with what should or shouldn't be legal. If we could have those sorts of privileges, I'd most certainly have many of your rights taken away from YOU.
No woman uses abortion as a form of birth-control...let's get that clear from the gate. I don't know of any woman who has an extra $500 bucks lying around just in case she gets pregnant (costs vary from state to state, and START at around five-hundred and go up for every week past 9 weeks of the pregnancy).
The decision to terminate an unplanned pregnancy is one of THE hardest ones any woman has to make. It is her RIGHT to make the decision, regardless of who doesn't like it. The people walking up and down outside women's clinics (most of which do not offer abortion services) like to think they've got some sort of moral superiority over the women and girls going inside; they say awful, ugly, shameful things to them as they pass by. This is moral superiority??? I'd like to know what these folks are doing to benefit children who are actually here. Oddly enough, it's these same protesters who consistently vote against programs that benefit families that cannot afford to care for the children they ALREADY HAVE. You'll find a lot of these same folks promoting the Death Penalty. What's that called again? Oh, yeah.....Being A Hypocrite. Some people will say, "Put it up for adoption". Well, sure...if you happen to be a white woman having a white baby, there may be a chance someone will adopt it. On the other hand, if you're a white woman with a bad medical, psychological, criminal or genetic history (or a woman of some other race), your chances go way down.
All those infomercials about 'Save The Children' and other guilt-inducing segments about how 35 cents a day can feed a poor child in (insert country here) only serve to underline my personal belief that forcing families to have babies they cannot afford is sadistic, immoral, misanthropic and misogynistic.
The Pope goes as far as to suggest condoms CAUSE Aids, in an effort to scare the shit out of the faithful. They certainly don't, but something they COULD do is lower the need for the child-welfare charities in those less-developed countries that rely on them. Condoms certainly do fail now and then...so do all the other forms of birth-control. This is not a reason to add further hardship to the women/couples by insisting they go through with what they intended to avoid. What would we think of a doctor refusing to treat someone who acquired an illness/disease/etc despite all that person's efforts to avoid same.....or of anyone who insisted that person has no rights to try to overcome? We'd find that barbaric (hopefully).
Most folks would never begin to get themselves involved in someone's medical treatment in that manner, but feel compelled, self-righteously, to dictate course-of-action in the case of pregnancy. It's all lip-service.
