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May 26, 2005 The abortion debate is being fought in the wrong realm. Time and again, people are led to believe that this is a debate between one side that loves the idea of something coming to life and another side bent on the destruction of humanity. Well, that is just freakin’ absurd! The modern debate should be renamed from pro-life vs. pro-choice to no-choice vs. pro-choice. If you do not think that is brilliant, I ask you, what alternatives do the pro-life side offer? Do they really intend on paying so that every unborn child gets a chance in this world? Do they offer to adopt all the unwanted children? Hardly. The pro-choice side, for years, has taken a beating for trying to tell its opponents that they intend to mind their own business and let others do to themselves what they think is necessary. They strongly believe that not everyone will make a good parent, not every rape victim wants to carry around a reminder of their horror or spend the rest of their lives in therapy trying to remove the stigma of their case from their lives when they look at their child. The big picture is that pro-choice folks believe that, no matter what, it should not be up to some stranger to dictate what they choose to do with their body. Not so for the pro-life side. They seem to prefer that everyone be born and that everything will be sunshine and roses. The pro-life side of the argument seems to live in a fantasy world where they believe that that unborn child will one day cure cancer or be the greatest leader of our time. However, the majority of abortions are a decision based on the idea that the would-be parents could not afford nor would choose to love the life growing inside of them. Usually the person getting an abortion is just realizing that they made a mistake sleeping with someone they did not want to be with for the rest of that child’s life, married or apart. The rape victim and the mother that’s life is at risk are self-explanatory. Where the argument is beginning to get ridiculous is when the pro-life crowd starts calling the eggs babies. What is the sperm then? Do they forget that the egg is nothing but half an equation without the sperm? Pharmacists are jumping into the equation by forcing their morality on responsible adults by refusing them birth control, something even married people use to prevent pregnancies that they do not want. What they want is for all American women to make babies until menopause, I guess, no matter if it is not fiscally possible. The military even has ridiculous policies such as not allowing a servicemember under the age of 25 to have a tubaligation or vasectomy unless they have already had one boy and one girl. That’s right, one boy and one girl. I have a friend on active duty that was 24, a parent of two boys, who wanted to get snipped and was refused because it was not a boy and girl. Pro-life only goes so far and is, in my opinion, void of any choice. Make the baby and they will be happy. It’s too bad they do nothing to try to prevent the unwanted pregnancy by educating the youth, other than abstinence only education, of course. You see, they do not believe that intercourse has any instinctual basis and that their children, of course, would be far too smart to make a mistake. They seem to stop short of shouting racial epithets or using class warfare to blame the “real” troublemakers. I ask Americans to really look at the issue. It is not about reproductive rights, it is about doing as I say, not as I do. Just don’t be one of the unlucky ones that has to make that decision and you will be just fine. ------------ About the author: Nicholas Olson is a long-time journalist who has been a columnist at his college newspaper and is currently a military journalist. Email: nicholasjolson@yahoo.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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