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I would not have an abortion.
Mar. 8th, 2006 02:16 amSorry, but we all know I can't keep my mouth shut on anything. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ashley has watched me pacing the apartment going, "I'm not going to say anything. No, I am. No, I'm not." ETC.
I wouldn't have an abortion. Ever. Unless I would die, I wouldn't have an abortion.
I support the right to choose. To an extent. Abortion is not something I have ever or will ever agree with, but I support other women having the right to choose, and if you had to make that choice, I would support you. I'm pro-life for me and pro-choice for you.
That being said, I'm definitely NOT pro-choice enough to vote for it, or defend it, or anything like that. Nor am I pro-life enough to do any of that. Does that make me a shitty person? An anti-femininist? Fine. I don't like abortion. I don't like that there needs to be that choice. But it's there, and people want it, and in some cases, yeah -- it's valid. But while I'd support you in making that choice, I'm not going to fight for it. I'm not passionate about it. We pick and choose our battles, and this isn't mine.
I don't, however, support partial-birth abortions. Late-term abortions. Whatever you want to call them ... I don't support them. There are exceptions -- maternal distress, for example. But in general, I don't. Why? Because just waiting, without having a good reason, is lazy and weak, in my opinion. I don't see how anyone can let a baby grow in them for FIVE MONTHS and then decide they're done. I don't think that being able to have an abortion in the late second or even the third trimester should be acceptable, and I don't think it should be a choice you can just make. (And I know in some places it isn't.) And while I do support the right to choose (regardless of whether it sounds that way or not), I really don't support the right to choose for as long as you please.
Yeah, okay, so I've said my word and that's all I have to say. I tried to keep my mouth shut, I really did, but then I figured -- why should I? All over my flist and in communities I've seen people talking about it ... so why shouldn't I say my piece? Take it for what it is -- my opinion, nothing more, nothing less.
Besides, it's not like everyone on my flist didn't already know my political leanings ... right? ;)
ashley has watched me pacing the apartment going, "I'm not going to say anything. No, I am. No, I'm not." ETC.I wouldn't have an abortion. Ever. Unless I would die, I wouldn't have an abortion.
I support the right to choose. To an extent. Abortion is not something I have ever or will ever agree with, but I support other women having the right to choose, and if you had to make that choice, I would support you. I'm pro-life for me and pro-choice for you.
That being said, I'm definitely NOT pro-choice enough to vote for it, or defend it, or anything like that. Nor am I pro-life enough to do any of that. Does that make me a shitty person? An anti-femininist? Fine. I don't like abortion. I don't like that there needs to be that choice. But it's there, and people want it, and in some cases, yeah -- it's valid. But while I'd support you in making that choice, I'm not going to fight for it. I'm not passionate about it. We pick and choose our battles, and this isn't mine.
I don't, however, support partial-birth abortions. Late-term abortions. Whatever you want to call them ... I don't support them. There are exceptions -- maternal distress, for example. But in general, I don't. Why? Because just waiting, without having a good reason, is lazy and weak, in my opinion. I don't see how anyone can let a baby grow in them for FIVE MONTHS and then decide they're done. I don't think that being able to have an abortion in the late second or even the third trimester should be acceptable, and I don't think it should be a choice you can just make. (And I know in some places it isn't.) And while I do support the right to choose (regardless of whether it sounds that way or not), I really don't support the right to choose for as long as you please.
Yeah, okay, so I've said my word and that's all I have to say. I tried to keep my mouth shut, I really did, but then I figured -- why should I? All over my flist and in communities I've seen people talking about it ... so why shouldn't I say my piece? Take it for what it is -- my opinion, nothing more, nothing less.
Besides, it's not like everyone on my flist didn't already know my political leanings ... right? ;)
