33 years of Roe-Wade celebratedThe face painting booth, sno-cone machine and jump house weren't very busy, but there were plenty of adults in attendance.
200 told of concerns about restrictive state proposals and Alito
By Stephanie Innes
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 01.21.2006
Pink "Save Roe" T-shirts, buttons and bracelets, along with "Bush backwards" key chains that electronically count down the days left in the Bush administration set the mood at Friday's annual local Roe v. Wade celebration.
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I'm not sure where I stand on this issue. Too many grey areas.
Should a rape victim have a choice?
Should someone who was negligent about contraception have a choice?
Should they have a choice when mother or child is immediate danger from the pregnancy?
Should a child be born to parents who have a history of disease like Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, siezures, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, drug addiction, herpes, AIDS, ...
Where is the cutoff for submitting a child to a potentially miserable life? Should they be allowed to be born even though they'll be deformed? Addicted? Sentenced to a crippling disease or even dead in a few days, months, years?
Younger people obviously don't have the life experience to decide. But how young is young? 25? 21? NC-17? PG-13?
Seems some older people don't always choose wisely either.
I dunno.
2 comments:
Perhaps its a changing of the whole idea of the 'miracle of birth'.
We know what causes it, how to detect diseases in the womb, heck we can start making children outside the womb!!!
We know it happens 'on accident' more often then 'planned'.
We (in our mid 20s) have never known a world where being childless means you are missing a crutial point in lifes divine plan nor a world where there will never be a child for you if you don't bear it.
And isn't the real issue here the OPTION? The decision isn't made because the option is there - to have the choice to finish college instead of keeping a fetus conceived in rape; to decide becoming a doctor is more important than taking the fate of a broken condom; to understand a womans body goes through tremendous stress in pregnancy and choosing her life over the 'miracle of life' that has taken up inside her; that a third child must live even in the face of leaving the entire family motherless to bear him... these are CHOICES afforded to everyone (man and woman).
It doesn't mean we will as a society stop having children.
It doesn't mean we won't have a teen pregnancy statistic.
It doesn't mean a person has a new version of birth control.
It means they have a CHOICE.
And seriously, there will always be abortions just like there will always be drugs and prostitution. I much prefer the idea that there is a safe clinic with medical staff and follow up appointments (even if there are picketers out front) over the images given to us in the movie "Dirty Dancing".
I will conceed the point that wanting a child until you find out it will not be 'normal', then choosing to end its life, is a new frontier and a sticky mental situation... however I still don't believe what goes on between a man and a woman starting a family should be legislated by anything more than their capacity as humans becoming parents, their own morals and values, and the most information their doctor can provide about the life they can expect to lead with a growing family.
Yes, there are grey areas - but can congress really decide to make them black and white for us? Do we like how they've done that in so many other areas that we would allow them to lay the law down on this one too??
It should never have gotten to the point of being a law one way or the other, I'll go along with that.
Whiney-assed people bitch about other people influencing their lives - the drink, the smoke, the smut on teevee - to where finally lawyers make the the government step in like a parent breaking up a spat between brother and sister. And in this litigious society we brought upon ourselves - since most are too stupid to regulate themselves - we rely on - nay, force the government to take over the decision making.
Sad.
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