Monday, 21 January 2013
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January 22nd: The Legal Protection of Unborn Children
January 22nd is the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children.
Last Thursday at school, I passed by some people handing out flyers and carrying big signs that said, "Stop the War on Women" and "Abortion Rights." Aren't they having a war on the little innocent sea monkeys? (Juno (2007)) In my women’s studies class, we read this anthology called Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice edited by Lisa Kemmerer. There was a quote that stuck with me :
“Embarrassingly, history has shown time and again how humans complain about the pinch in their own shoes, while failing to see that their tight-fitting shoes are trampling on someone else” (9).
There are a lot of women complaining about how society seem to be forcing them to be baby-producers, but if they get abortions, the innocent little people won’t even get to see the daylight. A woman in my class talked about how she looked at her ancestor’s history. She found out that German immigrants who suffered discrimination like the other immigrants turned to hating the African Americans so they could be accepted. Is this what the human race all about? To bring down anyone by any means necessary to get ahead?
To call fetuses nonhuman is preposterous. From conception to 9-months, the tiny cell has gone through more rapid and big changes than a person outside a womb. In that time period, a person evolves from the size of a 'period' to about a 5 pound slippery, crying creature. You take a look at a 25-year-old for a year and unless s/he gets plastic surgery or gets stabbed in the face, not much has changed, and if you murder that person, it’s a big deal. In the Women’s Studies class, we also read Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva. It tells us that:“We should remember that it is precisely this power of definition of what is human and what is non-human that broke down the moral barriers for those scientists who did their research on people in Nazi concentration camps, particularly on mentally handicapped people.” (page 49.)
That aims to show how people nowadays feel more relaxed about stem cell research. Eve came from Adam’s rib. A retreat that I attended last year explained: Heart is the most important part of the body. It circulates the blood in your body. It’s the source of life. A rib-cage’s function is to protect the heart. A rib would break itself first before letting the heart get hurt. Because Eve was made from the rib, she is the protector of life. Women are not doing their jobs if they’re demanding abortions. `
Please re-blog this if you care for those innocent victims. You never know which one of them will cure cancer. And if you’re concerned about the world of poverty that the kid might come into, just remember what this pro-life advocate said:“Pro-life movement is the most important movement because poverty and discrimination in school doesn't matter if you can’t even get out of the womb.”
Life is a gift.
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Incase you haven't noticed, this is Datingish.
... why did datingish post this?
@laytexduckie@xanga - AGREED. If this post is not about the responsibilities of both parties to prevent pregnancy or how much right the male should have in the decision on whether or not the resulting zygote/fetus gets to live, it has no place on Datingish. Everyone feels their movement is the most important movement for the betterment of humanity.
Abortion is the kindest choice for EVERY pregnancy. Since it's better never to be brought into existence in the first place (because, remember, even the quality of the very best lives is poor, at best) aborting a pregnancy is sparing a potential person the pain of existence. Life is not a gift, it is a curse and one NOBODY should be forced to bear.
I will forever resent my mother for bringing me into this world, but I would never have been able to resent her for terminating my existence before I was born, therefore it would have been better had I (and everyone else) been terminated. We need to be demonizing those who allow children to be born, not those who terminate pregnancy. The best possible thing that could happen to the human race is extinction so the truly vile ones are the ones who perpetuate the human race's existence.
Are you really arguing that what makes a human is how many biological changes it is going to during a period of time?
Actually, I'll re-post a letter to the editor of the newspaper in my old hometown in Texas that I submitted yesterday, here's a transcription:
"In response to the all emotions running high about abortion, and most of them which are preaching the anti-choice stance, all I have to say is this: I support a woman's right to choose, period.The only arguments in favor of outright banning abortion are religious in nature, and as such every one of them is invalid as per the US Constitution which does not affirm an official religion. There are no secular arguments against legalized abortion, period. When all you can appeal to is your non-existent "God," you have no argument.
It costs over $300,000 to raise a kid in this day and age. A lot of us can't afford that, and there are others like me who are adamantly anti-children and don't want any of our own who are not willing to shell that kind of money out. What's worse? Legalized abortion or people like me being forced to raise children against our will?
Lastly, for those who say "save the children," I highly suggest reading David Benatar's excellent book Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence as for why abortion is the kindest choice one can make for every pregnancy. Existence harms all of us and benefits none of us. If you really were THAT concerned about children and their suffering needlessly, you wouldn't have brought them into existence to begin with.
It's HER body, HER choice. It really is that simple, folks."
@secretbeerreporter@xanga - "There are no secular arguments against legalized abortion, period."
How about a sense of altruism towards the weak and vulnerable? That's not a religious stance, that's actually a stance taken many times by those who are athiests to explain why people can be 'good' without needing a religion to validate them as such. Altruism is part of human nature according to the Happy Human, is it not? Should that not extend to those who are not yet able to exercise their unalienable rights as laid out in the constitution?
I do wonder, personally, what Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. would have to say on this subject. Afterall, today is a day to celebrate his life and accomplishments for the rights of those who did not have a say and now do.
@Shadowrunner81@xanga - I personally think altruism is stupid. The only person any of us have any responsibility for is ourselves. Our "built in" altruism is one of the fatal flaws of our species and we are the only species that even acts that way.
Besides, if you want to argue that, go back to what I originally said: it's better never to be brought into existence. That is an irrefutable fact. In that light, if you want to argue for altruism, abortion is the altruistic thing to do because it spares them life on earth (which is overall a negative experience). Again, I have to recommend David Benatar's Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence. He devotes a whole chapter on abortion and he takes a stance stronger than pro-choice, he actually refers to himself as "pro-death."
@secretbeerreporter@xanga -
"In response to the all emotions runninghigh about abortion, and most of them which are preaching the
anti-choice stance, all I have to say is this: I support a woman's right
to choose, period."
thank you!
Amen!
The right to "choose" is the right to get pregnant and the right to keep the baby or give it away . . . I don't think it's any woman's right to decide who get's to live and who doesn't . . .
I'm confused... where am I?
You can probably eat your own fetus too. "I can do whatever I want"-Cartman, Southpark.
@BlehhItsTu@xanga - Well, I'm a guy, but I'd personally eat a fetus before I ate the flesh of another species, that's for damn sure.
If you take the story of Adam and Eve literally, you shouldn't be procreating period.
But seriously. Human =/= Person. A person is its own being, own body, capable of surviving and breathing and what not on it's own. A fetus is a parasite. Until a certain point in the pregnancy (after which abortions are outlawed ANYWAY) it could not survive on it's own. It feeds off the mother, and cannot be separated without dying.
The mother's life and mental health take precedence, no matter what, no matter her reasons. There's a chance I'm pregnant right now. If I am, you better believe I am having an abortion as soon as possible. Because I can, because it's my right. If abortions were completely illegal, I would find an illegal doctor. I would induce a miscarriage in myself. I would end up in the hospital or worse.
I kind of like my options/rights the way they are.
It's just a clump of cells...like the dead ones on your head. Get over it.
@secretbeerreporter@xanga - There is no argument against your insanity. That's the truth. Period.
@sarahsmurfette@xanga - My argument is simple and logical: life contains suffering, suffering is bad (thus, not suffering is good), and therefore life is bad. It's simple third-grade logic really. Ultimately, nobody's life is worth beginning because of the suffering contained therein. The ONLY life worth beginning would be an absolutely perfect life, completely devoid of any suffering. There is no good argument against that.
So, would you say the same thing to Dr. Benatar who wrote that book? Do you think the same thing about him as you do me?
@secretbeerreporter@xanga - If he shares the same line of thought as you? Yep.
@sarahsmurfette@xanga - Well, I hate to say it, but the truly insane ones are the ones who actually think life is GOOD. There is nothing good about any of our lives. Happiness is nothing but the temporary absence of suffering, in much the same way darkness is nothing but the temporary absence of light. All human experiences are either neutral or negative. Happiness, love, and other similar emotions are the state of delusion. Realizing how bad life really is and that life is nothing but suffering? That's true intellect, and I know it's a hard realization to come to but that's just a fact.
Human? Sure. Person? No.
Other than that, wtf is this doing on datingish?
@secretbeerreporter@xanga - Have you ever read Benatar's (your hero) position on circumcision?
Some how I can never take any pro-life person seriously unless they have adopted a child.
Realistically its stupid to out law abortions. If you don't like abortions then don't get one, or have sex with a woman who would get one. As is some of the abortion laws are stupid, like the waiting requirement thing. The sooner you take action the better it will be less developed.
Also you can get stem cells from other places than aborted cells, that just happened to be where they were first found.
@sarahsmurfette@xanga - Yes. He speaks strongly against it in his most recent book The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys published 2012 and cites it as a prime example as to why men are the butt end of gender discrimination in the modern, developed world as opposed to women.
@secretbeerreporter@xanga - lol what is "bad" ?
If nothing is good then how do you know something is bad? Those words are totally based of ones ideals and experiences, we might agree on what bad is some times. lets say rape. most will agree its bad but that is still a matter of opinion. Or boy love. A lot of people really like little boys so to them its a good thing.