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May. 18th, 2009 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ashleyfanficNot sure how this will be received...
As a woman, I find it insulting when a man tells me what I should do with my body. As a man, they have no idea about what we deal with, hormonally, on a day to day basis. And during that time of the month, when I'm a screaming crying ball of irrational mess, they have no way of fully understanding that sometimes our emotions are not our own. Without that true understanding, there should be no way you, as a man, incapable of feeling what I feel, that you should tell me what to do with my body.
Which brings us to the abortion issue. The Catholics protesting Obama because of his stance on abortion reminds me of the anti-war protests against Bush. So, here is where my connundrum lies. These people that protest the wars because they don't like the loss of life are the same ones who stand up for the right of abortion. It seems like a contridiction in terms.
I know that there are people that will say that a baby isn't a baby until it's born, but I don't see how anyone can say that. If a mother eats spicy food while pregnant, the baby kicks and stuff because it's upset his tummy. If you thump the mother on the stomach lightly, the baby will kick or hit the spot. I've seen it happen. It recognizes voices as whenever Adam would talk, the baby would start kicking Brittni. Yet, these people make the argument that the baby is just a bunch of cells, but aren't we all just bunches of cells?
Now, here's where I'm very conflicted. If a woman is raped, especially by a family member, then I fully support her right to have an abortion. But when you have women who use them as birth control more than once, that bothers me. At some point the light has to come on and you have to say to yourself, 'Hey, maybe I should change my lifestyle'. If the mother's life is in danger, then it should be her decision, because ultimately, she has to live with it.
I suppose my point in all of this is that I don't agree with the argument that a baby isn't a person until birth, because there is all manner of contridicting evidence in that the baby reacts to it's environment while in the womb. But I don't feel like a man should ever have a say so over what a woman does with her body. And I suppose that depending on the situation is whether or not I support the right to choose.
And I say 'Right to Choose' because I don't believe anyone actually supports abortion; they simply favor a woman's right to do as she pleases with her own body.
Although, I have to say, that I find partial-birth abortions to be nothing more than murder.
As a woman, I find it insulting when a man tells me what I should do with my body. As a man, they have no idea about what we deal with, hormonally, on a day to day basis. And during that time of the month, when I'm a screaming crying ball of irrational mess, they have no way of fully understanding that sometimes our emotions are not our own. Without that true understanding, there should be no way you, as a man, incapable of feeling what I feel, that you should tell me what to do with my body.
Which brings us to the abortion issue. The Catholics protesting Obama because of his stance on abortion reminds me of the anti-war protests against Bush. So, here is where my connundrum lies. These people that protest the wars because they don't like the loss of life are the same ones who stand up for the right of abortion. It seems like a contridiction in terms.
I know that there are people that will say that a baby isn't a baby until it's born, but I don't see how anyone can say that. If a mother eats spicy food while pregnant, the baby kicks and stuff because it's upset his tummy. If you thump the mother on the stomach lightly, the baby will kick or hit the spot. I've seen it happen. It recognizes voices as whenever Adam would talk, the baby would start kicking Brittni. Yet, these people make the argument that the baby is just a bunch of cells, but aren't we all just bunches of cells?
Now, here's where I'm very conflicted. If a woman is raped, especially by a family member, then I fully support her right to have an abortion. But when you have women who use them as birth control more than once, that bothers me. At some point the light has to come on and you have to say to yourself, 'Hey, maybe I should change my lifestyle'. If the mother's life is in danger, then it should be her decision, because ultimately, she has to live with it.
I suppose my point in all of this is that I don't agree with the argument that a baby isn't a person until birth, because there is all manner of contridicting evidence in that the baby reacts to it's environment while in the womb. But I don't feel like a man should ever have a say so over what a woman does with her body. And I suppose that depending on the situation is whether or not I support the right to choose.
And I say 'Right to Choose' because I don't believe anyone actually supports abortion; they simply favor a woman's right to do as she pleases with her own body.
Although, I have to say, that I find partial-birth abortions to be nothing more than murder.
