Now that Alabama and Georgia are drastically altering the abortion laws on the books, it really begins to ignite the debate about what should be done. So let's try and break this down to what the argument is about.
Pro-life: it's not ok to kill babies
Pro-Choice: Don't tell me what to do with my body
ok, here's my opinion, it's not your body, it's the body of another human. Debate over. I've always considered myself firmly in the pro-choice camp, however, since my daughter was born, I can no longer understand why someone wouldn't want to raise a tiny human. It has been the single most rewarding experience in my life, and I would never want to deny someone else the opportunity to grow as a human by helping another human grow.
That said, I'm personally not comfortable telling people what they can and cannot do when it doesn't affect me in the slightest. So as a country, we're sort of in a pickle. I don't agree with criminalizing abortion, we have to be honest, there are circumstances under which it's beyond reasonable expectation to have someone go through with the birth. If the pregnancy is a product of rape or incest are two examples I can think of, well being of the mother is a third.
There are exceptions to every rule, and there can be no perfect compromise. The main problems I see are as follows:
The father, in cases that don't fall under the above circumstances, has no say in whether the child will be born. I don't think that's ok.
If you make abortion illegal, women will be forced to obtain abortions from unsafe sources, and that's not cool either.
The father shares no responsibility for the penalties, that's not ok either. The father isn't being put in jail for abortion, isn't required to shoulder the responsibility of helping the woman mentally cope with killing her own child. Dudes need to take responsibility, but I think that's a moral change that needs to happen, and can't figure out how to legislate those types of rules.
People need to chill out about this issue, nothing is going to happen without civilized, rational, bipartisan, focused discussion on the legality of abortion. So let's chill out and have a discussion.
Pro-life: it's not ok to kill babies
Pro-Choice: Don't tell me what to do with my body
ok, here's my opinion, it's not your body, it's the body of another human. Debate over. I've always considered myself firmly in the pro-choice camp, however, since my daughter was born, I can no longer understand why someone wouldn't want to raise a tiny human. It has been the single most rewarding experience in my life, and I would never want to deny someone else the opportunity to grow as a human by helping another human grow.
That said, I'm personally not comfortable telling people what they can and cannot do when it doesn't affect me in the slightest. So as a country, we're sort of in a pickle. I don't agree with criminalizing abortion, we have to be honest, there are circumstances under which it's beyond reasonable expectation to have someone go through with the birth. If the pregnancy is a product of rape or incest are two examples I can think of, well being of the mother is a third.
There are exceptions to every rule, and there can be no perfect compromise. The main problems I see are as follows:
The father, in cases that don't fall under the above circumstances, has no say in whether the child will be born. I don't think that's ok.
If you make abortion illegal, women will be forced to obtain abortions from unsafe sources, and that's not cool either.
The father shares no responsibility for the penalties, that's not ok either. The father isn't being put in jail for abortion, isn't required to shoulder the responsibility of helping the woman mentally cope with killing her own child. Dudes need to take responsibility, but I think that's a moral change that needs to happen, and can't figure out how to legislate those types of rules.
People need to chill out about this issue, nothing is going to happen without civilized, rational, bipartisan, focused discussion on the legality of abortion. So let's chill out and have a discussion.