The overturning of Roe vs. Wade does not currently affect me. The primary reason why I am Pro-Choice is because I will never know what it is like to be pregnant nor terminate a pregnancy. I do not have the same plumbing as a Woman. I cannot put myself in their shoes when it comes to carrying and birthing a child. Since I don't have a passionate opinion on matters that don't directly affect me, I often wonder why others do.
Terminating a pregnancy has its repercussions and I am sure everyone knows that...even the folks brazen enough to use it as a form of birth control. Abortion reminds me of suicide except, in most cases, people that get abortions have to live with their choice. I am willing to assume that abortions are not premeditated nor celebrated by the recipients.
I personally am against abortion and think it should be the last resort, but I don't think I have the right to stop a woman from going down that road if she wants to do so. Especially if it is a choice made for medical reasons. I am seriously against folks that turn their earlobes into weird looking donuts using those wooden circular pegs as if they are a member of an African Tribe, but that is their prerogative.
I do have some angst against the folks celebrating as if they won some great victory. I think the majority of the people celebrating the SCOTUS overturning a 50 year right aren't lining up to adopt children. It would be more believable that they would push their teenage daughter down the stairs after finding out that they got knocked up by one of the undesirables. I think they are celebrating because the people they disagree with have suffered a setback. Pro-Life folks don't frequent orphanages, fund school lunches, child services, or volunteer to babysit when a child's single mother has to work her second or third job.
I'd like some of these Pro-Life folks to show some support to all of these lives that they have saved instead of sporting "if you can't feed them, don't breed them" bumper stickers on their pickup trucks with a ball sack hanging from the trailer hitch. You would rather be in control instead of being humane. Stop pretending as if you will give a shit about these kids AFTER they are born.
The fact of the matter is, the majority of aborted fetuses are minorities that you wouldn't have given a shit about to begin with. Let's get political here...some folks really want to build a wall to stop unaborted children from entering this country (from the Southern border of course...non-aborted babies from Canada are cool...right?). Your concern over fetuses should extend to the pregnant women that don't look like you.
To the crew on the other side of the debate, let's not pretend that the SCOTUS is going to go after same-sex marriage and interracial marriage next. That is a tactic that your opponents use similar to "those damn Libs are gonna take our guns next" syndrome. Although I am not aware of a Republican politician that is openly gay, I think there are enough GOP folks and their supporters that are still in the closet and the debate will be tabled for a while or probably not brought up at all. Let us not forget that a certain conservative Justice is in an interracial marriage himself. Yes, he is a hypocrite, but I do not think he would incorporate a rule that would make his own marriage illegal. The current Vice President might have something to say about that as well.
Are there any Pro-Life folks out there that were also Anti-Mask? I'm just wondering Trump probably would have made the 2020 election more interesting if many of his anti-masking supporters didn't die of Covid.
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