American abortion saga..
Let me make it clear, the following are my views and you are free to disagree with me.
I find these anti-abortion protests and their rhetoric, religiously motivated, attracting undue attention and hypocritical. I think everyone should have a right to family planning. Of course abortion, after certain period of pregnancy can not be allowed. This is the way it is done in Europe, Asia, for that matter every where else. From my point of view, having a baby for which you are not physically and mentally ready, is unfair for the baby, society and the mother who bears it. Not allowing a 13-14 years old pregnant girl to choose between having or not having a baby is spoiling two lives atleast in many cases. The pregnancy can be due to ignorance, rape or can be an unplanned one. In all of these cases, not allowing the girl the right to choose is against the fundamental right of choice.
Anti abortionists claim that, it amounts to killing a child. Oh..Come on, give us a break, Americans shouldn't talk about this. Look what is happening in Iraq and elsewhere. If they really think taking a life is against God's will, does that apply only for American lives? Doesn't an Iraqi or Afghan child killed in American bombings a crime? What do these anti-abortionists think about those lost lives? I was reading about Iran, Americans and other European countries, watched in silence, as Saddam Hussein sprayed poisonous gases over thousands of Iranians in Iran-Iraq war in mid 80s. Didn't it concern all of us then that scores of innocent lives were being terminated? Why didn't anyone raise a voice even? Where were these Pro-lifers then?
At home front too, Why doesn't anyone protest against more than 150 executions every year in America? That also is terminating a life how so ever bad it may be. You may say that God creates life, only God can destroy it. Those criminals were also created by God, don't we choose that when they be executed? No one raises a voice against that.
Hypocrites!!
I believe in "live and let live". Governments should provide guidelines, it should enforce those, but shouldn't be ruled by the whims of a religious lobby. All those Pro-lifers, why don't they protest against the degradation of the lives of those poor hungry people. Doesn't protecting and serving a life already in this world amount to saving a life?
I find these anti-abortion protests and their rhetoric, religiously motivated, attracting undue attention and hypocritical. I think everyone should have a right to family planning. Of course abortion, after certain period of pregnancy can not be allowed. This is the way it is done in Europe, Asia, for that matter every where else. From my point of view, having a baby for which you are not physically and mentally ready, is unfair for the baby, society and the mother who bears it. Not allowing a 13-14 years old pregnant girl to choose between having or not having a baby is spoiling two lives atleast in many cases. The pregnancy can be due to ignorance, rape or can be an unplanned one. In all of these cases, not allowing the girl the right to choose is against the fundamental right of choice.
Anti abortionists claim that, it amounts to killing a child. Oh..Come on, give us a break, Americans shouldn't talk about this. Look what is happening in Iraq and elsewhere. If they really think taking a life is against God's will, does that apply only for American lives? Doesn't an Iraqi or Afghan child killed in American bombings a crime? What do these anti-abortionists think about those lost lives? I was reading about Iran, Americans and other European countries, watched in silence, as Saddam Hussein sprayed poisonous gases over thousands of Iranians in Iran-Iraq war in mid 80s. Didn't it concern all of us then that scores of innocent lives were being terminated? Why didn't anyone raise a voice even? Where were these Pro-lifers then?
At home front too, Why doesn't anyone protest against more than 150 executions every year in America? That also is terminating a life how so ever bad it may be. You may say that God creates life, only God can destroy it. Those criminals were also created by God, don't we choose that when they be executed? No one raises a voice against that.
Hypocrites!!
I believe in "live and let live". Governments should provide guidelines, it should enforce those, but shouldn't be ruled by the whims of a religious lobby. All those Pro-lifers, why don't they protest against the degradation of the lives of those poor hungry people. Doesn't protecting and serving a life already in this world amount to saving a life?
posted by Jayant @ 4:31 PM
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