This article is based off my own opinions, supported by a few of the things I have read about abortion rights. In no way does this reflect the opinions of ANYONE ELSE.
I am Pro-Choice.
I can't understand why a cluster of cells in a woman's uterus has any right to life simply because that cluster has the potential of becoming a solid life form. That's like saying that a woman's egg and a man's sperm have a right to life and therefore shouldn't be "killed". It doesn't make any sense to me at all.
I also can't understand why Pro-Lifers believe that if abortions were legal, women would be having them left and right for ludicrous reasons. As far as I know, frivolous abortions don't exist, and if they do, they are few and far between. Most women who want abortions simply don't have the means of taking care of the child when its born, including women in poverty, rape victims, women subject to abuse from their partner, etc. Others know their baby won't survive outside the womb. But the problem for these women is that, because of the government (state governments included) and fierce Pro-Life lobbyists, they can't receive abortions unless undergoing shame-inducing tests or "invasive 'transvaginal sonomgrams".
For example, I watched a video where an angry father, whose baby, if born, would have no bladder or kidney. The Pro-Life advocates yelled at him and his wife for getting an abortion, trying to make them feel guilty and horrible, and he stepped up to the plate and fought back. I commend this father for doing what he thought was right, and I agree with him. No mother should have to get yelled at and trodden on on the worst day of her life.
I read some of the comments below the video, and one person's comment in particular caught my eye. The username "misscrackerjack" posted a comment saying that the couple should have had the baby anyway, and that there "could be some medical procedures" to save the baby's life.
I couldn't believe what I was reading. Does this person really believe that this couple should put themselves and their baby, if they did have it, through expensive, delicate medical procedures, for just a CHANCE at life, with no guarantee that the baby would live? Why in the world would they put the child through that?! I believe that the parents made the right decision in aborting the baby. Their child would have had little to no chance at life, and if it did, what would be the cost?
And I'm not just talking about medical expenses. The physical and emotional baggage that couple would have to carry if they had tried to get the baby to live after birth and it didn't make it... I can't even begin to imagine how that would feel.
Why not, instead of giving birth to children who might not live, we started adopting children whose parents have abandoned them? Why aren't Pro-Lifers doing that instead of making other people feel horrible about themselves? That would be something productive. Why not give those children a home? They need someone to love them and take care of them.
I'm actually thinking about doing it myself. I mean, I still plan on having my own child someday, but I know that there are children who need a family and I'm more than willing to take them into my home and give them one. Well, when I'm on my own two feet and have a job and a house and everything.
Anyway, I really think that Pro-Lifers need to do something more productive and beneficial to society than yelling at women who are getting abortions. I also don't appreciate the fact that they're shoving their opinion down the throats of everyone else. My belief is that if they don't like it then they can just avoid it. Stay away from women who are getting abortions. Stay away from abortion clinics.
Besides, whoever gave them the right to take control over what I do with my body? Or anyone else's for that matter?
No one, that's who.
