Thursday, January 29, 2009

abort or not abort

Politics are like driving a car... if you are always steering to the left or to the right you'll just keep going in a circle and all that happens is you run out of gas. Democrats and republicans are like the ying yang symbol, although they are complete opposite there is that little dot of the other sides color dead center in it. Examples of this would be the log cabin republicans or conservative democrats.

The greatest situation on seperating democrats from republicans is abortion. This decision on the Roe vs. Wade case has been an ongoing battle that will never end. The far right wing view is simply abortion is murder end of discussion and it becomes a human life at the time of conception.

The far left wing view of this is that one mistake shouldn't have to dictate the life of a teenage girl, or even any other woman that is not ready to deal with the stuggles of a child; and the nine months of being pregnant followed by experiencing a level of pain no man will ever have to endure.

So we have this dilema more about who has the greater rights? Is it the woman or the fetus? Now I have heard some views from some people that call them selves democrats and some that call themselves republicans but none of them stuck to this precise guideline.

In the conservative side I have heard abortion is wrong except for in the case of incest or rape. This would state that murder can be justified, as my liberal friend that stated abortion is murder but it is better than those kids growing up in orphanages, which is an extremely ethical issue I will touch on in another blog.
The more liberal friends of mine would like to bring up the issues that a woman would have to face dealing with being pregnant. Some of my friends say that women would have abortions rather they were legalized or not but by legalizing it they use safer procedures and the woman isn't as susceptible to disease or death from the procedure. One of my friends even goes as far as to say that by legalizing abortion it has reduced the crime rate.
Some of my friends that are more liberal have had an abortion already.The procedure is extremely traumatizing to most of them and a couple of them go mentally insane and had to be baker acted. Basically the aftermath of abortion makes some women feel terrible and they feel afterwards that abortion is murder.
Alternatively they could have had the child gone through the physical and emotional struggles and condemnation. They could've gone through being called sluts and whores and possibly resorted to drugs or another outlet that could negatively impact her and the child. The child would either grow up with a mother that doesn't really want them and would feel like they were a mistake or grow up in an orphanage and feel like no one cares about them.
When strong emotions are set forth in an individual they react strongly in a positive or negative way so the child could become successful and help benefit the world or become a criminal and spend most of there life in jail or prison.
However this isn't accurate for all orphans. The reduce in crime rate helps support that many of those unborn children would've given a negative impact. So the woman 's right isn't quite as clear cut as it may seem and the actual impacts of abortion are not just the choice of the woman or the child but will impact society.

3 comments:

  1. Remember that, although the Roe v. Wade decision concerned abortion, it was not primarily a decision on abortion. To clarify: the case is on the limits of state and federal power via the 14th amendment. Many on the left (myself included) do NOT think of "pro-choice" as birth control in any way. It is more about preventing any form of government from making moral decisions for me. Of course, there are certain moral limits that must be decided. And whether "abortion is murder" is another issue. But I would consider it an issue for individuals, not for government.

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  2. I felt this was a pretty insightful blog. The reader was able to view both sides of abortion. The part I like most is letting the reader make up his/her mind on the topic without intervening. After saying that, my opinion lies more on the conservative side. I believe women should have rights in this world, but giving someone the power to kill life is abusing that very freedom. However, there are challenging scenarios that should allow the mother to spare herself from this burden such as: if both the mother and child were going to die through complications of birth and perhaps rape (even though that rape is beginning to be thrown around like the "The Boy who Cried Wolf." In reality, this is a topic that is not to be taken lightly; but the more one becomes one-sided, the more he/she appears narrow minded. This is just a discussion humanity will never agree on. Thanks Roe v. Wade...

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  3. To support your statement on the mental well being of women Check out any pregency care center for information called (PACE)

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