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December 10, 2004
Fetus Fancy
It seems like the blogs I hit regularly are slowing down for the holiday season, and I don’t know whether it’s an all-encompassing thing or whether I just have my own lame excuses for not posting. I just haven’t really felt anything really worthwhile to post about.
I spoke with Michael’s niece today—she’s having twins. I told her that I was proud of her decision to keep the babies. You may have discovered over the course of reading my blog entries that I have somewhat liberal leanings. When it comes to the abortion issue, I’m decidedly right of middle.
While I cannot abide anyone taking away a woman’s right to choose, I still believe abortion is wrong in every sense of the word. Nobody can come up with a conclusive answer as to when life begins, but by the time a mother knows she’s pregnant, she’s well beyond the two-cell splitting into four-stage. There’s a little person inside of that woman.
There is not a dearth of good parents out there for children, no matter what the child’s ethnicity. When the Florida gay adoption law gets shot down once and for all, people will find there’s an even greater number of available parents, here in the gay community. I also believe that anti-abortion groups will find support among gay men and lesbians, especially if there’s a trade-off: “You support stronger abortion laws and we’ll support overturning Florida’s gay adoption prohibition.”
As simple as this would be, it could never possibly happen because most right-to-lifers are also very Christian and very anti-anything-gay. That sort of Christian is not going to compromise his or her beliefs simply to get support.
Myself, I believe in stronger abortion laws, but only if children receive better sex education, and are allowed to learn about safe alternatives to abstinence, and if gay and lesbian parents are permitted to adopt.
Since some part of that is detestable to so many of the people involved on whatever side, it’s not an opinion I can share loudly, or often.
But this is my blog, and I’m safe to say what I want here. And, while I encourage differing opinions, I also have freedom of deletion if you get nasty or insulting.
Cartoon copied from some guy named Randy Milholland, at University of North Texas. Unauthorized. I thought it was cute and applicable. Sue me if you must.
Posted by Bastique at December 10, 2004 02:20 PM
Comments
Let's hear it for the freedom of deletion! ;-)
Appreciated your pro -life words
"la hiem" - to life
Posted by: Kerry Doyal at October 1, 2005 04:07 PM