Wednesday, March 7, 2012

A response of sorts

Why be pro-life? I mean, do you know what hyperemesis gravidarum, pre-eclampsia, and ectopic pregnancies are? Do you know how physically hellish pregnancy can be for a woman? Do you know all of the different ways that pregnancy can cause mental and emotional distress to a woman? Do you know how emotionally scarring it can be to give a child up for adoption? Or do you just not care about any of that, which proves that your views on this issue are incredibly hateful?

No I do not know how hellish a pregnancy for a woman can be. I do not know of any of the way a pregnancy can be scarring for a woman whether it is physical or mental. But thank you for raising that awareness because honestly I can say that every woman should know of the dangers and issues that can occur in pregnancy and that to be quite honest not to begin a life if at some point they feel they need to terminate it. I do care about all that but I do also care for the child, the human that is growing within. I will never know of what a woman must go through but i do believe in giving every human the opportunity to live. How is it that I am hateful? Do I want to see anyone suffer no, but what is it when to stop a persons suffering you have to kill another person? I would like to see abortion be outlawed sure, but i know even then people would still go do it and what i want is to raise awareness, that what is growing inside of a woman is human and to never call it only a potential human or lump of cells. As much as the woman is human so is the child within. This is a miracle of life. Also I myself am adopted. Assuming you got to my profile through the blog post i wrote you'll note that they single out children that would be a burden to families and society. I was 3 months premature, weighed two pounds and 7 ounces and this was because my mother drank and took drugs while I was in the womb. By those peoples standards, I would have been viewed as a burden to society and t would have been a benefit had I been killed.

On my other blog, tumblr, I received this as a message from a person who obviously did not share my views on the post i made about abortion, my response ot it being in italics. This person does bring up a good point thought about some of the issues a woman may go through during pregnancy. These things aren't exactly discussed (maybe they are and due to me being a man, single and without a child I do not know any of it) and I feel it is something that should be brought up more often and that is the dangers, conditions, and issues that do go along with pregnancy (hyperemesis gravidarum is severe morning sickness, pre-eclampsia is hypertension occuring in pregnancy and ectopic pregnancies is when the embryo attaches itself outside the uterus. I googled these for quick terms and further research is needed/suggested).

I feel perhaps if women understand more and more about their bodies during this time, the risks and such maybe perhaps that might curb anyone who during the difficult time their bodies might go through, into thinking that killing the child would be an only option. Granted, I do not know if there are predetection screening for any issues in pregnancy that can be seen coming off form afar but I feel any and all tests should be done. I also believe that there should be more and mroe discussion about the risks in an abortion as well. If more women understood what was going on during the procedure and the after effects of it maybe that might have them reconsider their options.

This is a quick write more so about the ideas the above person has given me about my response to the issue of abortion. i want to make it known, more and more that the child inside is a living human and not a blob of potential human. There is a bigger issue here as well with abortion as it crosses boundaries of moral, political and ethical debates and would require much more research but what I truly want is for the child to be recognized for what it is: a human life.

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