Ok, get a chair...
1. It shouldn't even be subject for consideration of making it illegal until there is a place for each and every one of those embryos/children. We have foster homes, in every country, and in America at least the hoops you have to jump through to adopt are astounding. I have close friends who adopted a child. They spent over $ 25,000.00 to do it. This was an uncontested regular adoption. Most people don't qualify to adopt, so we end up with thousands of children growing up in "the system" which does nothing for them, and destroys their emotional health. Ok, enough about that one area....
2. Abortion is only wrong if you define life by your religious/scientific beliefs. So, it could be right for one and wrong for another. That leads us back to choice. The only reason to take away the choice for abortion is that you believe that it is a life and it is your opinion that the person that wants one doesn't have a clue/morals as to what they are doing.
3. Many women make mistakes. Just like men, except that they potentially have to carry that mistake around. It may sound plain, but if a woman doesn't want to carry a child, and you force her to, you are putting her in a "prison sentence" of sorts, in the way that she will more than likely be ill, she will have damage to her body-even if all goes perfectly, she will be forced to endure large mutant junkie amounts of pain, and then she can adopt it out, and or raise it. More than likely, a woman that wants an abortion in the first place is probably not going to take care of her health, the fetus as it develops will be compromised, and then if the child is not white (extremely sad but true) and it is given up it will more than likely sit in foster care waiting to become a statistic.
4. If the kid comes out with damage from having a crappy mom while it was in the uterus, and then is given up, the kid will sit in the foster system until it is passed off to the state system. The scariest part of mandatory birth is that embryos that are defective (again, sad but true) will have to be born. Then that kid will be in the state system drooling on the floor with no quality of life whatsoever.
Now, many people would take a kid, provided they could legally, if someone didn't want it, but the red tape is ASTOUNDING. And, people who tend to give up their kids tend to be not the best of our society, so when they sober up, or get clean, or decide to get away from Mr. Abusive, they tend to go look for their kids and try to get them back. While they may not be successful, they usually have Legal Aid and the person that adopted doesn't, so the adopters get to blow the rest of the money they have left on lawyers fees to fight off the birth mother/father. This was a potential case with my friend's kid, as the mother was on vodka her entire pregnancy and then sobered up, got back together with the man and wanted the kid back....luckily it was short lived and she went right back to the bottle. (Sad but true).
I have a couple of friends who have had abortions, and they don't regret them. They feel that it was the right decision for the time.
I took one friend in for the proceedure. It was horrible, she was 19, and we had to go through a protest line of people screaming at us, then we went inside and they tried many times, three that I can remember, talking to her about it....they had options, she could live in a shelter, she could go to a group home, she could adopt it out, they weren't pushy, but they wanted to make sure she had considered her options. She did it, and she didn't regret it last I talked to her, which was years ago.
I have another friend that used it as birth control years ago which I thought was totally pathetic. She probably can't have kids, but still doesn't want them.
I have had friends that have had miscarriages that are devastated by the loss of life.
Me? I think it is a choice that needs to be made by the person that wants it. They will have to live with their decision. If we start making laws based on what everyone thought of everything, we would all not be able to survive, as breathing would surely be on someone's hit list. All that said, I don't think I could do it myself.
I'm sure the procedure is unpleasant to the embryo, actually horrible, that would be the point to stop the life. Unfortuanely, scientifically, an embryo is a parasite---an organism that lives off of another. Some women take this as an unwanted invasion. Sure, they could do something about it prior to this invasion, but they didn't. So, unless we want to pass out time machines we can't take back that they are pregnant.
I know that some men have a vested interest in the pregnancy of a woman, and some have sued to get her to carry it to term, but so far they have lost. I feel bad for the men, but if they are so eager to have a child or keep a "child" that is in someone else, they should beware who they impregnate.
Wow!!!! Bet you couldn't tell I have been really outspoken about this for years..???
Good luck on your paper....and on reading long-winded crap from people like me!!
