Are there more important things in life than life?
Writing by treason on Saturday, 28 of July , 2007 at 3:54 pm
“What if I were to say to you, ‘Those are Michael Vick’s dogs, and that was his property, and whatever he wants to do with them is his choice, is his right.’”
– Rush Limbaugh
Laura Ingraham was on vacation this week, so I tuned into Rush the other day while I was watering the backyard. He’d been trying to make the point that people seemed more upset over the Vick case and the abuse and deaths of dogs than they were over the deaths of human beings, including Chris Benoit and his family. Where was the outrage there?
I came in on the conversation late, but after a few callers I could predict where Rush was going on this. And that’s when he brought up the “his dogs/his property/his choice/his right” comment. Well, of course he was going to make a statement about abortion, and I felt he had a valid point. For decades this has been the battle cry of feminists: “It’s my body and I’ll do what I want to!”
I’m with them on this: I don’t want any religious organization or government controlling my body or telling me what I can or cannot do with it. But it has always been my belief that such groups would step in and do just that if I could not demonstrate that I was perfectly capable of controlling my body myself. So to pro-choice women I’ve always suggested: “Control yourself so they won’t have to.”
Rumor has it that Democrats are changing their opinion slightly on abortion, but it’s an issue that will never be resolved. I can’t honestly call myself pro-life or pro-choice; instead I like to think of myself as pro-sterilization. I knew when I was four that I never wanted to have children, but doctors refused to take my questions about sterilization seriously.
“You’ll change your mind when you get older, trust me.”
It is as I’d expected: I haven’t. But being a woman who never wanted to have a child or ever be pregnant faces some real problems. What if she does become pregnant? An “easy” solution is abortion. But what if that’s not an option? What if she doesn’t want to abort her child? There’s adoption. The reason I spay and neuter my pets: I don’t trust people to be responsible pet parents, so I would always wonder about the puppy or kitten I gave away. A human child would probably have a better shot at finding a good home, but why take chances?
Now I’m at an age where if I were to get pregnant, I would be taking a significant risk. Women my age do get pregnant and they do deliver healthy babies. But it’s rare. I could very likely have complications and a child might be born with some very serious issues.
Do I want that option to abort a child? Truth be told, I probably do. But would I exercise that option? Frankly, I don’t ever want to find out. A pregnancy for many women is a blessing; for me, it has been and will always be catastrophic. If you don’t ever want to be pregnant and you don’t ever want to have an abortion, what do you do?
Pray for menopause. And take control of your body and hope for the best. Still, abortion is an issue that won’t be bringing the Left and the Right together any time soon. If there is a cause that both sides can rally around, it’s probably the treatment of our pets. Republicans love their dogs and Democrats love theirs. This Vick case is difficult to stomach because we want to be fair – yes, I know, innocent until proven guilty – but too many of us, on either side of the aisle, have already formed our opinion. And, for once, it’s the same.
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