Jelly Belly!

Abortion is a tenuous subject which almost all people have an opinion on. Most people know whether we are for or against it. Though not of all us know what will we ACTUALLY do when the situation calls for it.

Abortion has been around for THOUSANDS of years. It is not novel nor new. Hippocrates talked about it in his oath, by the way Hippocrates was not against abortion. He was against a SPECIFIC type of abortion where the procedure was more dangerous then childbirth. It was Ancient Greece for crying out. They chucked ugly, deformed children off cliffs, you really think they were against abortion? Ancient Egypt had abortificients and birth control (we owe some of our knowledge of these things to them).

This is my roundabout way of saying, it is not going anywhere. Pre-Morgentaler women were desperate and did horrible things to themselves to force a miscarriage or abortion. One woman was quoted as saying "I would have let a guy with a Gray's Anatomy textbook give me one". Was it smart to let back alley butchers do it? No, but it simply speaks to the desperation of women, who decided that they could not have more children. Some women went the "traditional" route of hangers, vacuums, suctions, knitting needles. Others would work themselves to exhaustion, some used firecrackers??!!!!!!!, rotten food, and scissors.

A lot of anti-choicers like to scream hateful rhetoric about women opening our legs and bringing this upon ourselves and to take responsibility for these actions. I think that deciding against giving birth IS taking responsibility, but they will disagree with me. Our very human nature has us wanting to desire sex and sexual contact with others. Though nature and desire does not mean we get to shirk responsibilities, like I said, I think that abortion is being responsible.

Some anti-choicers like to point to science to say that human life begins at conception (NOW THEY TRUST SCIENCE? When its convenient for them? No, global warming isn't happening, God wouldn't do that. Nope no evolution). It has separate DNA yes so? If I spit on a spot, and someone else spits in the same spot it has different composition. Does that mean it is life too? Yeah, anti-choicers are big on consistency too. I love how these people howl and castigate women who try to enter clinics down in the state. Guess what assholes, you don't know what they are there for. You don't know their situation and it's none of your damn business. You don't want an abortion? Don't have one or DO ( When anti-choice choose http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html). These women go into use the services they railed against, they used the doctors that they personally have harassed and doctors treat them with kindness and compassion. That sounds way more Christ-like than your hateful nasty bullshit anti-choicers.

Abortions occur in the same amount where it is legal and illegal ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21255186/) There were 42 million abortions in 2003. 48 percent were deemed to have happened in un-safe conditions. 97 percent happened in developing nations. 70 000 women die a year from un-safe abortions. 5 million suffer from permanent injury. 70 000 women! Wars were started with less death than that. That figure doesn't even include the children left behind motherless. It doesn't include the families. Anti-choicers like to think that they care about families, and I sometimes think that they do. But they try to issue their condemnation on women for making their own decisions regarding their health.

I have an analogy that is similar.
Let's say a person was drunk got into a car and started driving. Let's also say that he didn't put on a seatbelt either. Double whammy. He gets into an accident. Are we going to let that person suffer the consequences of his very stupid actions? No. This fellow did TWO things that were illegal. But yet, we won't let them suffer. A woman decides to have sex (and I could venture the idea that she may have been raped but that accounts for less than 2 percent of all abortions so it's best to stay away) and could still use every protection available to her and still get pregnant. So she was responsible. Check. She wore protection. Check. She STILL got pregnant. Check. We should let the bitch suffer because obviously the only reason to have sex is to pro-create.

Makes. Total. Sense.

Yours in sisterhood,

Natassia

*By the way, abortion is birth control.

*The use of the term anti-choicer is totally appropriate. The term pro-life for the other side is a total misnomer. Pro-choicers are pro-life, it just happens to depend on whose life you value. Secondly, I don't believe a zygote or fetus is a life. It may be a potential for life yes, but life? No.