Abortion

Jan. 26th, 2006 03:21 pm
omimouse: Digital painting of a mouse wielding a spear (Water Mouse)
[personal profile] omimouse
Abortion should be safe and legal. Comprehensive sex ed should be a mandatory part of public school.

I have been afraid that I was pregnant before. I wasn't using anything at the time, because I only had one partner at that point, and Warin was snipped. Turns out I was a month late because of the amount of stress my body was under.

I have been certain that I was pregnant once. Louis and I were using condoms, because I wasn't sure if we could afford birth control pills for me. The condom didn't break; it unrolled and plastered itself against my cervix, inside out. Happened on Monday; I was on birth control by Sunday, waiting for my period be damned. You're not supposed to be able to tell after only a week. I was pregnant, and I know it; I felt it. Ludicrous fertility runs in my family. I choose to go on the pill, so that I (hopefully) wouldn't have to make a more painful choice a month or so later, and so that I wouldn't have to go through that again.

Because the part that hurt so much both times was the fact that I want a child. I want one very badly. Both times, we simply did not have the resources for another child, and I knew that. It would have been irresponsible in the extreme to have kept a pregnancy, hence the reason I was doing my best to avoid it both times.

I still don't know what my choice would have been, not really. The point is, it would have been my choice. Mine, and my husbands', since they would have been involved with the consequences of that choice. Our choice. No one else's.

No one else has the right to make that choice for us. No one. If you do not agree; if you think abortion should not be legal, then there is the door.

And then she heads for the clinic and/She gets some static walking through the door/They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner/And they call her a whore/God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in her shoes/'Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to choose

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Date: 2006-01-26 11:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] louisadkins.livejournal.com
*hugs* Love you, dear.

For the most part...

Date: 2006-01-27 12:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tendyl.livejournal.com
For the most part, I agree with you. My only thing is that I firmly disagree with using abortion as the sole method of birth control. Imho, there are much better and safer methods availabe in the United States.

Personally, I wouldn't have an abortion. But that's cause I believe that an infant's life begins at conception (unique DNA and DNA is what determines life). I don't scorn people who have abortions and I won't tell them what to do. Its their, and their partner's choice. And we're wrong as a society to make that choice for them. Just as we're wrong to decide that we won't teach our children about sex, safer sex, and all that.

Anyway, minor rant on my part. Just letting you know that I agree with you.

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Date: 2006-01-27 01:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pagawne.livejournal.com
Honey, I also agree safe abortions should be legal, and that sex education should be mandatory. I made my decisions on abortions when I watched helplessly while a 16 year old child bled to death because of a botched aborttion, and there was nothing we could do to stop the bleeding. Yes, this is a real hot button for me.

Do I approve of abortion? No. Would I have had one? No. I also have not recieved the memo from God that He has gone fishing and I am in charge. It should be bewtween a woman, her doctor, and her God.

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Date: 2006-01-29 10:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fluffworld.livejournal.com
First off, I agree totally, and wish I could muster up your elegance when argueing as opposed to roaring "What the hell do you think you know about it, you smug bigoted little GIT!" and turning into the Hulk.

Second off, hallo, and how did you end up on my friends list?

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Date: 2006-01-29 10:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] omimouse.livejournal.com
I followed you back from a comment in [livejournal.com profile] dorktowerfeed, read your info, and then read some of your posts.

You sounded like someone that would be interesting and stuff to learn more about.

-waves-

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Date: 2006-01-31 07:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raim.livejournal.com
Nothing to do with the post (though I agree with you), but - you friended me? Hi. *waves* May I ask why? And you have roots in the Netherlands, don't you? Interesting :]

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Date: 2006-01-31 08:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] omimouse.livejournal.com
Mutual intrests, especially the writing. That, and I need to be around the Dutch language more frequently, or I'm going to completely loose the language.

The fact that the first post I saw when I scanned through your LJ was about trying to read something printed out in the "substitue 'f' for 's'" print was another reason. I, too have tried to muddle my way through stuff like that.

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Date: 2006-01-31 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raim.livejournal.com
Oh, my journal will work for that - at least half of my posts are in Dutch, nowadays.

Oh god, yes, that F. I so did not read that well *grin* It's not so bad when the entire typeface (?) is gothic, but it just kills me when the rest of the letters are completely normal. Argh. Annoying nineteenth century writers.

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Date: 2006-01-31 10:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dandelion-diva.livejournal.com
I could not agree more. Well said, hon.

Gessi

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