**Disclaimer-Don’t even bother reading this blog if it’s just going to set you off into a rant about good vs evil and godliness. I didn’t write this to argue about religion. All insulting comments will be removed and not acknowledged. With that said I do encourage healthy debate.
Abortion is an ugly subject. Certainly not something that you bring up the first time you meet your mother in law, in an important meeting, or around anyone that drives a minivan with ‘my family’ stickers on the back windshield. Somehow along the way someone convinced us that a growing egg in our bodies, comparable to a parasite, was ‘a baby’ and anyone that decided they didn’t want to be sucked of all their bodies’ nutrients was a murderer. A fetus starts off as little more than a mass of cells that eventually grows into something resembling a human baby in about 6 months. But as far as I am concerned until a fetus can live outside of the host’s body it is completely up to the host whether to continue the pregnancy. After seven months of nurture a fetus can typically live outside of the host and therefore probably shouldn’t be sucked out head first. But even then I can think of a few circumstances where it might be necessary.
Well that’s my opinion. People like to call me cynical and heartless for stating that opinion. Perhaps I am. But when you really toss aside emotions and look at things in a logical perspective you can’t deny the benefits of more people choosing to run through the picketers into the Planned Parenthood office and order up some fine fetus suction. Here are a few not so pretty truths about abortion.
In The United States alone there is an average of 1,060,000 abortions per year. America’s population is currently about 316,364,000. The current rate of population increase in America is about .0047% per year. Our population would increase by 10,748,690 people in ten years if abortions were made illegal today. But that’s only 148,690 in ten years if we leave it the hell alone. That’s 10,600,000 more assholes taking up space and precious oxygen in the United States alone. That’s’ 10,600,000 more people polluting the earth, 10,600,000 more people to cut you off in traffic, 10,600,000 more people to wait in line behind at the DMV, and 10,600,000 more crying babies on airplanes.
85% of women that have abortions are unmarried. And not so surprisingly single mothers stay on welfare twice as long as their married (or ever married) counterparts. So in addition to a dramatic rise in population it would also show a dramatic rise in welfare dependents. I wonder how many pro-life screaming extremists are willing to turn out their pockets to pay for that. That’s what I always find funny about Tea-Party rallies. There is always one idiot with a sign that says ‘END WELFARE GREED’ right beside another idiot whose sign says ‘CHOOSE LIFE’. I suppose these people never thought to include logic in their everyday thinking. I guess that’s how they are able to make sense of the bible.
On a country wide scale roughly 150 out of every thousand teenage girls become pregnant between the ages of 15-19. Sadly only about 40 of those 150 terminate the pregnancy. Of the other 110 only 1 third of them will graduate high school and less than 1% will obtain a college degree before they turn 30. Dig out your checkbooks again folks because 80% of them will end up on government assistance, half in the first year. The simple fact is that no fourteen year old (despite the stupidity of getting pregnant so young) deserves the disadvantage teen parenting brings. I have often gotten to this part to hear the howls of adoption. I stamp that out real quick. Pregnancy is terribly dramatic on the 14 year old body. And let’s face it, the fetus is much more likely to come out with serious health issues because a child that young is unlikely to be physically able to carry a child and even less likely to take the necessary measure to ensure its safety like eating correcting, avoiding drugs and alcohol, and supplementing.
And let’s not forget the situations involving rape and medical necessity which count for about 20% yearly.
With all of that said I would like to state for the record that I don’t encourage abortion. I encourage prevention. But my mentality is this: Two 18 year old unmarried girls both become pregnant working minimum wage. One decides to keep the child and hope the father will help. The other makes a much more difficult decision and terminates the pregnancy. Nine times out of ten the girl that decides to terminate will be more successful and have more opportunity. She will also be less of a burden on society. If someone is physically able, mentally prepared, and financially stable then adoption and parenting are wonderful options. But to expect everyone to be is naive and unrealistic.
As a society we need to STOP judging these women and start respecting the choices that they make. After all you have no idea what’s best for someone else or what situation they are going through. And if you still think abortion is murder then leave the judgment up to your god of choice and stay out of it. Your responsibility as a member of society is not to agree with everything but I believe that it’s everyone’s responsibility to treat each other with respect and dignity. Because after all “let he who is without sin cast the first stone” and “judge not that you not be judged”.
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