Today, while driving around town with my mom, I saw this car:
I know you can’t see the other side of the truck because I only got one picture, but it says; “A child is a commitment, not a liability.” and I 100% agree. But when that commitment is something you couldn’t handle either mentally, emotionally, physically or financially from the beginning but you were forced to take it, then it becomes a problem.
It’s like when a starving person is given a dog. Like, they aren’t given a choice. They’re required by law to keep that dog. If they get rid of the dog and give it to a shelter, they can spend their life in jail. If the person keeps the dog, they get charged with abuse for not being able to take care of it.
If a person doesn’t want something or can’t have the thing, don’t make them have it and the alternative is any sort of punishment.
You wouldn’t give a kid allergic to peanut butter a peanut butter sandwich and force them to eat it or face life in prison, would you?
Another argument that is commonly brought up: “it’s the woman’s choice to have sex! It’s her fault if she gets pregnant!” Then there’s an address to a church.
1. Rape is still a pressing issue that many women face
2. Condoms break, birth control doesn’t always work. The pull-out method does not work.
3. Sometimes it’s less cruel to put a baby out of its misery rather than let it live a short life full of pain due to a developmental issue that happened that would leave the child on the verge of death it’s whole life.
Also: keep in mind, who dominates the Political field? Straight, Republican, white men. Do these people have any right to choose what happens in a woman’s body? Absolutely not. Women should make this choice, not men.
To these people who keep claiming: “if it was my wife, I’d want her to keep the baby.”:
a. Not every woman is married when she gets pregnant
b. Ever thought what the woman wants?
As I’ve stated before, it is not the man’s choice. It is the choice of the person whom the embryo resides in.
If we take away abortions, people will resort to even worse methods of trying to rid themselves of an unwanted child. Suicide, clothes hanger abortions, drugs and alcohol will become popular methods of abortions that do not always work but will also harm the mother. Do you think those who pass these laws will bat an eye at this? No. It’s “not their problem” and “she shouldn’t have gotten knocked up.”
“Well, what about the foster care system? Kids whose parents can’t care for them can live there and get adopted by a nice family.”
In the American foster system, more that 443,000 kids are in the system on any given day. In 2016 alone, more than 690,000 kids spent time in the foster care system. This system has kids moving around their whole lives, from group home to group home, foster family to foster family. Rarely do these kids actually get adopted, as couples would rather have kids of their own than help out these kids with no parents or parents who are too far gone to raise them properly.
“I’m pro-life! How can being for life be bad?”
You’re pro-life? Do you care for the people being thrown into jail for not wanting/being able to care for something? Do you care for those whose lives you’re destroying to the point when they kill themselves and their child is put into foster care, and the child is so tired of nothing stable in their lives that they too commit suicide? Do you care for those who a child would ruin their life?
Would you force an 11-year-old rape victim to give birth to a child when she died during childbirth because her body wasn’t built for it? Would you think it’s all okay because the baby was saved? What about the girl? She was someone else’s baby, and she would meet her demise at the hands of your law you made to fit an ambition that rarely will affect you, but will affect thousands of those with uteruses.
You’re cruel if you think this is a better alternative to a small sack of flesh no bigger than the nail of your pinky finger simply ceasing to exist.
