Are you ProLife or ProChoice? Do you believe abortion is a sin, do you believe abortionist are stealing a child chance of being born, or do you think the mother should be the one who chooses.
There is a lot of debate on the subject and it seems like everybody has their own opinion on this.
What baffles me is that people are still seeing the act of having an abortion as a shameful thing, as a taboo.
Why should we?
In fact why should what gives us the right to have an opinion about what another person should do with her body. We see a lot of peoples protesting in the streets against abortion but how many of them have had an unwanted pregnancy or how many of them have come to be pregnant as a result of a rape?
As a man I can't possibly know what a pregnant rape victim might be going through and therefore I can't pretend to know what is best for her. How could I?
It's easy to be a good Christian when nothing bad happens to you. When you live a nice untroubled life, it's easy to follow the Good Word. It's easy to look across the yard to your unfortunate neighbor and give him lessons on how to live his life and criticize the hell out of him when he does wrong.
All those people who are denouncing abortion as an irredeemable sin where were they when the woman was helplessly at the mercy of the rapist? Where are they going to be when she will give birth?
Are they going to help the mother raise her kid if she can't provide for herself? Are they going to be there to take care of him , and to answer his questions when he'll be old enough to realize he doesn't have a father?
Probably not.
Sure, not all women considering an abortion got pregnant as the result of rape but that doesn't mean they should not have the right to choose. Chances are if they are willing to have an abortion they probably did not want to get pregnant in the first place. Why they did is their own business.
You can't argue that they should have expected that before having sex. That is probably the most hypocritical argument I have ever heard and you would be amazed how many times I have heard it. How many of us are having sex only as a way to propagate our species, really?
Just because unwanted pregnancy did not happened to us, that doesn't make us better, it makes us luckier, because chances are it could always happen to us as well. No matter how many precaution measures a couple could take, we all know that no birth control method is 100% safe. There is always a 0,001 chance an accident will happen. You can't held a woman accountable just because she happened to be in the 0,001 percent.
Those people who are so aggressively defending the life of an unborn child, did they ever stopped to think about the life of the person carrying that child? A great percent of those women considering abortion are bellow 18 years. Think about that.
Just because a 16 year old girl made the stupid choice not to take a pill, or let her boyfriend go without a condom, that doesn't mean she has to pay all her life, nor does it mean another child should be raised in a foster home.
How many of us did stupid things, but got lucky and didn't end up facing the consequences ?
Just think about how many times we could have endangered our life or somebody's else without even knowing? How many of us drove home after a party even if we had a few glasses, because we thought we were in control of the situation? How many of us crossed the road while texting? How many of us smoke, how many of us eat junk food?
How many people endangered their own kids, by leaving them unattended, or by not caring for them properly?
In this country, you can't drive a car, a soulless object without first going through driving school and getting a driver's license, because you might hurt someone else, or even yourself. You can't drink a beer until you are 22, but somehow, it's perfectly okay to have child at 16 years old, or less, that is to be in charge of another human being.
Somehow, I have a problem with this logic. How could it be wrong for a woman to have an abortion when she thinks she is not ready to raise a child, but perfectly okay for a 16 years old who hasn't even finished school to become a mother?
Maybe we should all pay more attention to those already alive before defending those unborn, but that's just what I think.
