Friday, 03 July 2009
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Lemme Get It Out of My System
It won't take long, I promise.
Today is my due date for this baby (but nothing is happening, much to my disappointment, haha) and today I read a short post about abortion. I'm not making a big post about my position on that or about how wrong the other side is. I'm not making a tribute to mothers faced with that decision and the tragedies there.
I just wanted to say that people who agree that abortion is the mother's prerogative seem to latch onto the idea that the woman carrying the baby has a decision to make about her body and her life.
Immediately, my mind wonders, "What about the baby's life and well-being?"And my mind answers itself, "That's why they can't call the human life inside a woman's body a baby."
I find that tragic. Not being able to consider the life inside a baby from the beginning is such a cheat. I don't say that accusingly, but mournfully. It's cheating yourself to ignore who is inside your womb, Momma.
Our country seems to be struggling with giving everybody the rights they deserve. They have no idea how to determine who deserves what rights. No idea. How do we level the playing field? they wonder. How do we make everybody equal without lowering our own rights to do what we want?
Let me help you.You can't.
~Commentating Victoria
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Comments (14)
Rights, and what constitutes them, has gotten to a point where there is always someone losing theirs so that others may gain. There is no answer to your question. I read the same blog and while I applaud the decision, if it came to the situation she described, it made me mourn for the 'what if' of the child that never would be.
You're absolutely right. And I think that's how the impasse is created. People actually believe that there is a way to level the playing field for everyone and every exception. It's an impossibility.
@AnamcharaConcepts - Exactly. Rights were meant to be laid down. And, regardless of your "position on the issue", it's still a sad circumstance.
Glad you got that out. And you are right, its kind of an easy out to not consider the life growing from conception a human being or a baby.
@MyxlDove - I get so frustrated with impossibilities... :p Especially when they are used as idealistic circumstances. They sound so pretty-- "everybody should have A, B, and C rights"-- but how do they actually get to becoming reality? I have yet to see it.
@AlterEgo909 - It's pretty much necessary, as far as I have seen, if you're going to exalt the rights of the woman carrying the baby above the rights of the baby. Somehow you have to cancel out the rights of the baby so you don't sound evil. The easiest way is to deny that there IS a baby.
(I am so going to get flamed for some of this. Heh.)
@TheMarriedFreshman - Probably so, get ready! lol. Or maybe you'll go into labor and not have to be around for it lol
@AlterEgo909 - Haha, YESSS Xanga-Induced Labor FTW! Hahahaha
I totally forgot today was your due date! I'm excited for you, even if it takes another little bit.
WRT your post, I think you're absolutely right. Everybody can't have everything. There is a cost to everything.
A-men. We have pushed individualism to a devastating brink.
This is so sad to me. When I suspected that I might have been pregnant with my girls, I was just so happy already! I was afraid to take the test because I wanted a positive so badly! I was afraid that if it were negative, I would just be crushed. So, I completely agree with you! A baby is a baby from the first second! And it is sad that people have to tell themselves otherwise.
I always wonder why we don't consider the father's rights, either. Maybe he wants that baby! Just because the mother doesn't, maybe the father would love that baby unconditionally and care for it. There have been a lot of wonderful single dads. Why is the woman's choice the only one that matters? It's a shame all around.
there's too many exceptions to be made.
the same rules don't apply to everyone in every case, so it's hard.
just hope that people consider alternatives before making a decision.
Regarding your comment about your due date, I did that three times. Babies come when their ready. That's the way of things. The best to you. Life is a miracle. Embracing it is the experience. (pats heart and points to you)