03 June 2009

A sort of aggressive extension on the abortion issue

UPDATE:
There are a couple more examples I would like to equate to the irresponsibility of getting pregnant and aborting it, that everyone agrees is irresponsible, albeit maybe not as serious.
- The previously mentioned spending of money you do not have. Irresponsible.
- Say your dog has a litter of puppies because you fail to have her fixed. You can't take care of them, and having them put down or otherwise disposing of them is equitable to abortion, as opposed to trying to adopt them out. Or keeping them and not raising them healthily.
- Binging and purging. Ok, so you eat a whole pizza and realize that maybe you shouldn't have. So you throw it up. There is something wrong with this situation. Obviously you shouldn't have eaten the whole damn thing in the first place. Impulse control.

Unprotected sex is similarly related to impulse control and laziness and responsibility, in my opinion. Most of the time, everything is fine, so people continue to do it and assume everything will be fine. This is how unwanted pregnancies happen. (This is also sort of related to procrastinating in general. Procrastinating oftentimes turns out fine, so procrastinators don't bother to change their study/work habits) Somehow in the liberal mindset, it has become pejorative to not support abortion completely, that you are somehow switching sides and a traitor and against social justice. So people think it is ok just to get rid of "it", it is too much work to think about, etc. Maybe you should have thought about that in the first place.

Sorry, I'm being a little aggressive here...

That said, it is more allowable if the girl is younger and other circumstances would make it nearly impossible for her to correctly raise a child. But it is still undesirable. At a certain age and maturity level, it should be inexcusable (besides, you know, the extreme circumstances: rape, incest, mother health, etc).

ANYWAY, be responsible and get some goddamn birth control. It really is such an easy thing to do. And if you do have unprotected sex, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT and get the morning after pill. I learned recently that if you get an IUD implanted within 6 days of unprotected sex, that also acts to prevent pregnancy, presumably by preventing implantation or promoting the rejection of the cell clump. AND THEN, you will be clear for all the sex you want for 5 years. Amazing technology.

.... I was also recently presented with that argument that the fetus is not really a life because it can't live on its own. That is interesting. That would put it in the category with, like, viruses, which I like to say are undead... I mean, I'm sure I've heard this argument before, but I've never really thought about it, soooo... I will have to think on it.

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