Abortion.
There, I opened Pandora's box. I know this is the subject that ruffles so many feathers. Can a person be in the middle? I think I am.
Would I ever get an abortion? No. Probably not. I remember being in 7th grade walking home from the bus stop and an 8th grade girl was afraid she she was pregnant and my first response to her was that I would take the baby if she didn't want it. At 7th grade! This was long before I ever even thought about having sex.
I'm not saying there aren't reasons for abortion. I know many women can't handle the ramifications of people pregnant by a guys who raped her. I also understand that there are many teenage girls who can't handle being pregnant at 16. But where do you draw the line?
I just don't think it's right to have two consenting adults do not have equal say in the result of the actions. If a woman becomes pregnant after consentual sex and wants to abort the child, the man has no say in what happens to that child. However, if man wants to abort that child, and the woman does not, the man is stuck paying child support. How is that right? How can that be called a "woman's right to choose"? Maybe it should be changed to a "woman's right to choose to screw over the guys stupid enough to sleep with her."
I would consider myself Pro Choice as in Pro Choosing to have sex knowing the consequences of my actions. If a person is raped it's a completely different issue. If a woman's life is in danger then this is the woman's right o decide whether or not she wants to continue with the pregnancy. In this day and age child birth is much safer than it was even just 50 years ago. These days women don't think of childbirth as a potential brush with death.
There are so many facts to consider now a days. For example IVF. Tests have shown that fetus's react to a needle prick at a very young gestational age. Now am I saying that they feel pain? No, not necessarily, but it is something to be considered. Where does it stop? I think for the time being I am comfortable with the position that people choose to have sex knowing the consequence and should have to deal with those consequences in a way that doesn't involve abortion. Knowing that birth control doesn't work 100% of the time should be enough of a choice.
