Republicans push for an amendment that would ban abortion; even if the woman is raped

[Leo656]

The stuff I miss when I go to work...

Yeesh, all this commotion over what is, essentially, a blood clot. Madness. This one's gonna be long, I am very close to this topic and have very passionate beliefs. The easily offended know to just skip it.

You know when you're officially "a living person"? When you pop out. That's it. Not before. Anything prior to that is "A work in progress" and anything can happen. If I am on the road, just around the corner from work, but I'm not there yet, almost, but pretty close... I'm still not "at work", and I'm not given credit towards being so. Likewise, I don't count anyone as a member of the human race until they are present and accounted for... and usually, not even then. It's a rather broad, silly, and extreme way to make a point, I grant you, but all the intelligent arguements were taken already.

More on point: Abortion isn't murder, in many cases it's the RIGHT thing to do. My sister shacked up with an asshole, he beats her, he beats her in front of the kids, it's the way sh*t is with them. She had the first kid hoping he would calm down. No change, except now my 13-yr old neice has a f*cked up life and mental issues from watching her mommy get hit her whole life. My sister had several abortions since then, since she's on welfare, can't afford even ONE kid and really didn't even need that one (although I love and adore my neice), but about 6 years ago, she made another mistake (which is all it can be called when someone willingly chooses to have a baby with an abusive poiece of sh*t) and got pregnant again. This time it was gonna be a boy, so she decided "He will change when he has a son", instead he became worse than ever. He doesn't care about those kids, they ONLY represent a way for him to control my sister and make her miserable forever. She loves and adores her kids, and always talks about how they are "the reason she was made to suffer so much", b/c at least THEY got to be born... BUT she also tells me every time we talk about how as soon as her youngest is older she is absolutely going to kill herself, because she knows she made every bad decision possible and now she is paying for it. I love those kids, but I cannot stand how HER life had to be destroyed so they could exist. I will not accept it. Ever. She should NEVER have had kids; she only stayed with that piece of sh*t "for their sake" and the courts wouldn't let her leave him.

My parents never should have had kids either, they both had a few before they got together and had me, I was a complete accident, not planned for, and my parents never got along so all having me accomplished was forcing two people who hated each other to hate each other IN FRONT of ME, putting me into years of therapy and years of self-loathing, insecurity, wondering why I exist at all... it's just NOT a good way to live. And this is not self-pity, this is simply me telling it as I see it: There is nothing special about me, or my life. I'm an average guy with an average job who's going to have to work ten years after I'm dead to wipe out my debt, same as anyone and everyone else. I highly doubt I have some higher purpose, or that the world would be in ANY way different for better OR worse if I was never born. I'm not arrogant enough to think I matter. There is no reason why I had to exist, when all it did was ruin my parents' lives and erase any chance for them to find happiness with other, more suitable partners. My step-siblings hated my father so much for having me, they refused to go to his funeral, because my existence "ruined" their family. My parents only stayed together b/c of me, and every single day growing up I had to hear the fights, see the abuse, and try and convince myself it wasn't MY fault, when the only reason they stayed together at ALL was because Mom got pregnant. Now, my sister repeated our mother's mistakes, and now I have to watch and listen to HER kids go through exactly what *I* went through. It's torture.

Human life is NOT sacred. FACT. In fact, there is no life on Earth that is LESS noble than human life. We are the absolute worst offenders on the entire planet, but because we have a "higher intelligence" we convince ourselves we are special? That every single egg that has a chance at life deserves to be carried to term, no matter what? "Because they might be the next Einstein"? They could be the next f*cking Hitler, too, ever think about that? I mean this with every fiber of my soul: NO ONE should EVER have kids, under ANY circumstances. Preventative measures need to be taken by ANY means necessary, and that includes abortion. Like Andrew said, planet's (over)full. Cramming more puppies into the sack isn't going to mean anything except less air for all of them.

People have sex with people they shouldn't. That is a shame, but it has never and will never change. We can NOT just say "Well, be more selective, or don't have sex", because that goes against our genetic programming, which is far stronger than any "higher brain functions" or "morality" we PRETEND to have. You can't punish them and everyone else involved by making them have and take care of kids they didn't want, can't take care of, and whose own lives are going to be ruined by piss-poor upbringing.

And don't even mention adoption as an alternative, b/c unless you're a super-rich bleeding-heart liberal like Angelina Jolie or Rosie O'Donnell, people only want to adopt brand-new, fresh and clean, lily-white babies. Most black, Hispanic, mixed-race, crack-addicted, HIV-infected, Down's Syndrome-afflicted babies DON'T get adopted, they either linger and die OR grow up to become wards of the state, which is a nice way of saying "Future Criminals". Really fair deal, huh?

Being pregnant is not a "gift" or a "Blessing" (Go find any pregnant woman 6-7 months along and ask her how "blessed" she feels, I f*cking dare you), it's a MEDICAL CONDITION. That can be good or bad depending on circumstance. That book of make-believe and fairy-tales people cite to justify human life (but none other, and only Male human life) as sacred was written to control people's thoughts and actions during a time when the average life expectancy was 25 and half the population was dying of Plague, it has ZERO relevance anymore. None. Nada. Nothing past the "Treat others as you want to be treated" part, which is the only relevant thing in there and, ironically, the part EVERYONE ignores, while cherry-picking whatever they want to justify whatever THEY believe, and force it on others. Again, madness.

Sorry to rant, but again, I'm *really* close to this subject. Abortion is right, like it or not; not only is it *A* right, it's just plain right. You may never hear me say this again: Stryker and Andrew are absolutely right about absolutely everything they have said so far.

"Not every ejaculation needs a NAME, folks..." - George Carlin