there is a new abortion law in Oklahoma requiring women who seek abortion to undergo an ultrasound, and listen to the fetus's heartbeat. there is no exceptions for rape or incest victims. based on this blurb, the law has no effect on the decision at the end. basically, this is a way of making your life even more difficult when you are making an already difficult decision. my problem with such a law is that it indirectly romantisizes the decision making process. that somehow the woman who seeks abortion is making a completely emotional decision, and since women are easily manipulated, a look at the fetus will change their minds. if only, the women realize that the fetus's heart is beating, presumably like theirs, they will make the humane decision,
now, i am very opinionated about a lot of things, but i don't know which way to go about abortion. i don't think abortion is right or wrong. to me, it is a personal decision, and a difficult one. maybe you should take a responsibility of your actions, and have the baby anyways, and try your best to raise her (assuming the pregnancy was a result of a careless accident). or maybe it's unfair to a kid to be raised in a situation where she can't have the basics, like the love of the parents. i don't know... but assuming that the women, or the couple, making that decision, are so naive that they have never thought about the shape of a fetus, is really insulting. and it invades people's privacy. why do people think that they can make a better decision that me about my fetus?
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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it's a veryyyyyyyyyy hard decision, believe me
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