A car sticker i saw today proclaimed, in the words of Mother Theresa, “Fight abortion, Love children”. Scarlett Johansson would have you believe, in a recent interview, smashing George W. Bush’s apparent torment of the feisty American public on his stance on abortion, telling Cosmopolitan magazine that:
“We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President had his way, we wouldn’t be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn’t be able to have abortions.”
We are not animals, neither are we stupid, and should not allow such instincts preside over rationality. The thing other than making mistakes which makes us human, is our ability to think and rationalize and learn from mistakes.
Mr Bush is staunchly anti-abortion and has heavily advocated teaching teenagers to abstain from sex to avoid pregnancy. Such a stand, has obviously its underlying reasons for pushing such a hardline agenda on the board. Advocating a stance such as this immediately raises awareness and creates such a fuss that a star like Johansson herself even wishes to sign herself in.
First question, who suffers during an unplanned pregnancy?
Second question, what are the medical effects of abortion, and possibly multiple abortions? What are the risks involved? Have all these issues been properly addressed, discussed and disclosed in public? Are people aware of the consequences of unplanned pregnancies and STDs as much as they are aware of the effects of abortion?
Third question, what are the psychological effects of abortion? Again, has appropriate and proper knowledge been disseminated to the public?
Fourth question, in this demand induced economics, what is the professional stance, both on the ethical issue, and the meaning of life? When does life begin?
Fifth question, is unnecessary time and money wasted, forming part of a conditional consequence as a result of a certain act, this being sex? What i am asking is that do we all readily acknowledge the consequences of sex?
Meaning, as each and every action has an equal and opposite reaction, the act of sex has its own consequences. Contraception suppresses the consequence, but does not limit a typical reaction, this coming from the Pope himself, with perhaps an even harder stance in denouncing the use of condoms. Pro-Choice activists have a point in the adult choice one can make a in free, liberated country, however, that does not constitute a right to condemn the consequences of an initial action that bore immediate consequences readily acknowledged by the human race in general.
A college paper i had written for my English course had collated researches, ethical discussions of life and potential hazards of free sex and subsequent abortions, and the apparent war between Pro-life and Pro-choice but went missing. Anyhow, it was collated here on the Net. I am pretty sure information is not getting any less here and you’ll find what i am talking about easily.
If a concerted effort is made on sex education, a similar effort should be sized up for abstinence. The choice still lies with each individual, but individuals need to be constantly reminded of pertinent consequences that one should face in irresponsibility. My stance would be along the lines of, legalizing abortion to the extent it does not permit irresponsible and irrational behaviour. Maybe that definition did not help at all, but that’s what lawmakers are for.
