abortion

All my life I've struggled with the idea of the government allowing or disallowing abortion. But that is because I'm dealing with two issues- how I feel about human rights and how I feel about the law. I don't support public or private clinics that perform abortions. The argument that if we allow abortion legally, we have to subsidize it seems wrong to me. I realize people of means will have access to it if its private only, but so what? Thats what being of means means. That is the American dream- to have doors open up to you that others do not- and oddly, many of those new doors are shady.

I've heard how we'd be back in the age of coat hangers and mothers would die. But bad decisions can be fatal. Do we stop tobacco from being sold because it causes cancer? No. Do we create government agencies to produce it and give it out? No. I think you can put regulations on abortion- no late term abortions, no improper procedures that endanger women to save money, and hospitals may choose to perform some without charge when they choose as they do with other operations. Hospitals may also choose not to do any abortions. Insurance companies could choose to cover them or not cover them. Its their choice. But"insurance companies' doesn't include a state and its healthcare programs which cover basic needs paid for by taxpayers.

Abortion is caused by self-defeating behaviors and I have no obligation to make pregnancy appear reversable for others with my taxes. It is wrong to force me to support abortion financially. And perhaps I won't work for, buy from or buy stock in a company that is tied with privatized abortion, and I have that choice. That is all I feel I'm entitled to when it comes to my will for others- to not support.

My moral points hinge on questions like: Will there will be many more births when abortion is not easily available? I don't think so. Because women won't think of it as an option down the road if they aren't vigilent with birth control. Everone will need to take childbirth seriously before having sex. I believe the exception is rape- the government should provide the choice to a woman to have an early term abortion when she has the courage to face her situation and file a police report, regardless of her income. To me this is the balanced choice where I can uphold the constitution and the human rights it protects and not deviate from my own moral choices by supporting things I don't support.

The issue isn't whether I believe in abortion or not. The issue is, who pays for it? And the deciding factor is that it is a choice, not a right. I am entitled to my own beliefs and so are others. It does not make me a demorcrat or liberal or republican or conservative. I am an american taxpayer. I am entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness by the legacy I inherited. And so is the poorest most unfortunate young woman who makes a decision to have unprotected or even semi-protected sex. If you can't afford birth control, you can still get it, and if you can't get it, you aren't entitled to "babyless sex" from your fellow americans. People who want to have sex will find a way, poor or not- and some of them will have babies and some will find a way to get birth control- but one way or another, I do not have to support others not putting thought into the real possibility of pregnancy. To do that would be support a lack of education and that leads to a lack of good judgement. Why would i do that?

But as a choice, I do not support a government ban on abortion by a turning over Roe v. Wade- which oddly makes me 'pro-choice.' Well I'm always pro-choice. If something is a choice, I am for it- meaning I am against the interference of the government. Americans should all be "pro-choice" about anything. And that is the whole point here. No matter what my beliefs are, I will always be pro-choice and that does not cause a dilemma for me.

In the end, what the government does or does not do with my taxes comes down to a process that should be democratic within the state I live in. If today my tax dollars are used to provide abortions I have a choice to initiate ballot measures, to go around making speeches, to move to another state or country or perhaps the most lazy, to blog about it. I can try to pursuade others that this is not a just use of government. But I can only give and live by my opinion- I can't force it on anyone else. As an American I accept that fact even when it bothers me to see what the majority rule does. Besides, majority rule does evolve as we evolve- as long as we partake in the process.