What's Wrong With The World Today?

I've never been one to rant very openly about a subject. I have a very strong opinion on things, and those close to be know that, but I usually try not to through my feelings in other peoples' faces, but I can no longer hold back my feelings on things. I think it's gotten to that point in life where things are SO horrible that I simply can't sit on the sidelines anymore, I've got to jump in the game and defend my side.

I simply do NOT get people who are FOR abortion. I've heard the argument OVER and OVER..."It's MY body, I should be able to do what I want". To that I want to say: Yes, you do have rights to do things with your body, but once you've conceived a human being it's no longer about you. In this day and age there are PLENTY of methods to prevent "unwanted pregnancies"; some include condoms, birth control, and, for unmarried people, the old standby of ABSTINENCE. If you decide you want to play around and "explore" with multiple people, that's your choice. If you choose not to use a method of protection during those times, again, that's YOUR choice. But once that human is created inside of you, choosing whether or not it gets to live is NOT your choice. Hate to break it to you, but abortion is murder, no matter what stage and no matter what you call it. Zygote, fetus, baby; those are ALL human beings, even before they look like one, they are.

Back to the concept of "It's my body..." and the person seeing the baby as, sadly, an "inconvenience", my thoughts are this: If that thought process were justifiable, shouldn't I be able to kill a neighbor's dog if all it does is sit and bark all day long, waking my baby every time she sleeps and giving me headaches? Nope, I would most certainly get sued and do time in jail for that. Similarly, if I meet someone who is an annoyance to me, or makes me look bad, or is simply an "inconvenience", shouldn't I just be able to kill them so that I don't have to live with that annoyance? NOPE, because that's MURDER and most certainly against the law. But this is where I hear those whiners saying, "But, it's growing in MY body..."; listen, like I said before, that ship sailed when you decided to engage in sex, and then not use protection. Or, in cases of rape or incest; does your comfort come before someone else's life? Yes, rape and incest are horrific, disgusting things, I'm not trying to downplay that in ANY sense. But shouldn't that child, not matter how it was conceived, have a fighting chance at living? No one said you had to keep the child after it's born. If you don't want it, let someone else have it. I know many people who are unable to have kids who would do ANYTHING to have ANYONE'S "unwanted" child. Killing a human because it's inconvenience to you is wrong, no matter how small it is. Once it's created it has the right to life just the same as everyone else. Who is anyone to take that right away from it simply because the grower sees it as "unwanted"?? And, like I tried to say before, if it's illegal to kill an owl that's annoying me, or a neighbors dog that just won't shut up, then why should it be legal to kill a HUMAN? Why should animals get more rights than an unborn child? And again, YES, it IS a human upon conception, no matter what you call it. An eagle is an eagle before it hatches from its egg. An alligator is an alligator before it hatches from its egg. And the same goes for humans, no matter what your argument is, that's the truth of it.

Listen, I know people think I'm just blindly callous to this whole situation, but I know several people who have had unexpected pregnancies based on poor choices. I know some who've chosen to adopt out the child, and I know some who've chosen to keep it. Either way, they all made the right decision: letting it live. They understood that they made wrong choices and that this life was created because of their lack of responsibility, but they were intelligent enough to understand that that life they created was just as beautiful and special as their own. No one is more important than another, no matter what stage of life or development they are in. We are ALL EQUAL. In the words of Doctor Seuss, "A person's a person, no matter how small." As silly as that sounds, it's so true! If people looked at unborn babies as HUMAN rather than blobs of inconvenience, they'd most definitely change their tune. Most mothers would do anything to protect their unborn children and even born children, and yet there are women out there who would say that unless the child is "wanted" that it's nothing more than an inconvenience that they should have the right to dispose of. No one should have that right, no matter what the situation. Everyone has the right to life. Why should a defenseless, unborn baby be any different? Who are you to make that choice for them?