Abortion Fight

This fight is really stupid. I am not a woman, therefore I am and always have been unable to have a baby. I can and did contribute to the creation of two babies for whom I will always be grateful, but the bearing of the child was all on my wife’s part. Not mine. We did the family thing together, of course, and did all the things we felt were right in raising the kids.

My responsibility for children is in impregnating the mother and raising the kids. My duty does not extend to controlling whether or not a woman should or should not have a baby. That is totally in her control and rightfully so.

If, for some reason, a woman becomes pregnant, it is her choice whether to carry the fetus to full term. Her choice. To say otherwise is to overlay someone’s view of things – politics, religion, philosophy, etc. – onto another person. That is so very wrong. Especially in America.

Overlaying a world view on the self is one thing; doing it to another is wrong. Freedom has its rights and privileges. It also has its duties. If a pregnant woman feels she cannot do right by the child if birthed, then she gets to make that decision.

If society – the community at large – desires the woman to have other options, they need to provide those options without burden to the woman. If an unwanted baby is mandated by law, then the law must provide education, housing, healthcare and parenting from alternate sources other than the real mother and father.

Right and wrong are concepts of the mind. Those concepts pertain to systems of belief and values. In a free society each of us has the freedom and right to believe as we do or will. No other person has the right to press their concepts of belief onto another person that removes freedom of choice.

Our society does not have laws that make a male adult do or refrain from doing things that lead to the creation of a baby. Most of the time, the male is not interested in making a baby. All he is after is feeling good from the sex act. That is the truth of the matter. No law says he has to do this or not.

It should also be true for women. If they want the pleasure from sex, have at it. If that act unintentionally results in pregnancy, the woman should have the right to keep or terminate the pregnancy. The man does not have such a right, although he was a partner in the act.

Abortion is mostly a religious concept of right and wrong. God’s name is almost always drawn into this discussion or debate. Just observe anti-abortion rallies. God’s name is plastered on hundreds of placards and posters.

In a land of freedom of religion (and freedom from religion!), why is God’s name even allowed to appear?

The Supreme Court has no right to make a decision that places a burden on women to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. End of story. It is our land of freedom. It is our home of right and wrong.

Enough said.

December 6, 2021

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