“Wait, so you’re pro-life, so you don’t vaccinate, right?” a
friend says to me on the playground.
“No,” I say back.
“So you’re pro-choice?” my friend guesses.
“I’m ‘I’ve never been 15 and pregnant,’” I respond.
“Fair enough,” she says.
I am neither pro-choice nor pro-life. I am Pro-Wanted Children.
I know that life begins at conception. I don’t believe, I know. I have carried two children and I know when
that life begins. I have also wanted
every single one of my pregnancies. I
don’t know what it’s like to carry a life that you don’t want to have.
I don’t believe that Roe vs. Wade will ever get
repealed.
I also don’t believe that abortion is a legislative
issue. I believe it is a sociological
issue. Abortions happen when a woman is
carrying a child that she doesn’t want.
When she feels that she cannot afford that child, either for monetary, sociological,
or psychological reasons.
The US has one of the highest infant mortality and maternal
mortality rates of developed nations.
One of the factors that plays into that is that women of childbearing
age often do not have proper healthcare available to them. That’s right, they don’t have health
insurance. So a 22 year old woman falls
pregnant and doesn’t go to the doctor because she can’t pay for it. It is well proven that good prenatal care
equals healthy moms and babies.
Often people turn to the issues of rape and incest to allow
for abortion, that doesn’t solve the problem.
We still have a woman pregnant with a child she doesn’t want. How do we solve the problem of rape or incest? We need to look to the men who are doing the
raping to solve that problem. From what
I understand rape is a power issue and not a sex issue. Why are the men in the US feeling
unempowered, why would they seek an act of violence to feel powerful? In developing nations it is often because
their economic power is nonexistent (women are oppressed, but men are
depressed). What is the cause in our
nation? Is it violence in the
media? Is it poor outlets for male
aggression?
We pat ourselves on the back because there aren’t many
orphans in the US. Most people in the US
that have babies choose to have them because they feel that they can take care
of them; in some nations where abortions aren’t available those women have
those babies and abandon them for adoption. In 2008 approximately 1.21 million
abortions were performed (some states will not release their statistics so this
is based on those that would), can you imagine if all those children had been
born? We would be facing a whole new set
of sociological issues.
And we would be facing the same issues, women are still
becoming pregnant with children that they don’t want.
If we vote to make abortion illegal I think we miss the
point. We would be trying to plug a
geyser with a wine cork. When we vote
for ‘life’ we need to think of the whole issue, not just the act of walking
into a doctor’s office and asking for an abortion, we need to be before
that. When we vote for ‘life’ we need to
vote for society as a whole. We need to
vote in family friendly legislation, universal
health care, and other laws that will make us stronger as a whole.
When it comes to abortion we must dig. As I've said before there is more here but it's underneath. If we are stop abortion it will not come at the polls. We need to go to our people. Love and empower our boys so they will not rape. Love and empower our girls so that they will not look for love in all the wrong places. Love and empower each other for so many reasons.
When it comes to abortion we must dig. As I've said before there is more here but it's underneath. If we are stop abortion it will not come at the polls. We need to go to our people. Love and empower our boys so they will not rape. Love and empower our girls so that they will not look for love in all the wrong places. Love and empower each other for so many reasons.
1 comment:
LOVE it. My thoughts on the matter are very similar but I have not, like you, had the guts to voice them. You inspire me.
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