My Right to My Body

There is nothing I love more than to watch a bunch of old guys talk on T.V. about whether I should be permitted to have a choice to an abortion or not.

When you get a vagina, and get raped, or are the victim of incest, come tell me what you think. Because then I'll really care. I really will.

It's interesting to me that these issues get raised on television right after a conference held by the President that was about the economy. In essence, these commentators are saying, "Never mind the financial crisis. Don't worry about healthcare. Just ignore that little situation going on between North and South Korea. Let's argue about abortion!"

Per person, we spend twice as much as other industrialized nations do on health care. This includes countries that insure their entire poplulations. Yet our rate of return on that investment BLOWS. Meaning specifically, 20% of our population under 65 is uninsured, and 29% of the "covered" population is so woefully under-insured that they postpone getting medical care they need. So essentially 49% of Americans are un- or under-insured. Great.

I say, with half the people out there running around paying out of pocket for medical care, we don't need to worry about abortions anymore. We're all broke, and they're too expensive anyway! I imagine that even if you're an insured woman's whose life is at stake if you go through with a pregnancy do to a complication, I'm sure the health insurance company will consider the procedure just about as medically necessary as a breast enhancement.

Hey, it's a free market, we love capitalism, right?? So why abort, when we could be selling those babies on ebay to pay off our credit cards?!

Seriously, did you know that most abortions are conducted in the states of NY, TX and FL by unmarried (80%) women under 25 (50%)? That was reported by the CDC, not me. Doesn't that tell you something about our nation's young women? That maybe they could use some education, some protection (literally in terms of condoms, but also society's protection--real and meaningful support?).

But from my personal experience with friends and women I know who have undergone the procedure, it has not been easy for them. It has created a life with a great deal of mourning and regret. Sometimes the decision ends up causing death to the mother, but arguably, there is always a sense of loss that causes permanent harm to the psyche.

I don't know if we'll ever know the answer to when a child becomes a child, whether it's inside or at birth. I don't think we are ever going to agree on this and it seems useless to debate it while in the meanwhile, kids are having unprotected sex because they aren't getting the right information.

What I do know is that along the way, these young women didn't have the support they needed. Often times parents and society pressure their daughters into the decision. Sometimes it's the very families going to church on Sundays. Meanwhile, the good Godfearing men who got them knocked up--sometimes through rape or incest--screwed and ran. Why aren't men being taught to not rape? Are you seriously going to tell me these women, who have survived the unspeakable, are "pro-death?"

I guess you want us to pump out the babies, but then when a little girl is born, she's left to fend for herself. Thanks a lot.

No woman is pro-abortion. We are all pro-life. When are you going to get it.