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Reply 23 of 45 (Originally posted on: 10-29-02 08:14:51 PM)
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Here's the email I sent wheezy, if it helps at all. I wrote it all in less then ten minutes, so it in no way represents my feelings on every issue surrounding abortion, but I think it might clear some stuff up, if you're that concerned.
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To Wheezy of Uselesstatic.com
This is in response to your article, "Is Abortion Murder?" http://www.uselessstatic.com/view.asp?ID=131
As I was sitting here at my computer desk, Alanis blaring, Oprah on the television speaking of female empowerment, I came across your article. Hooray! I thought, Wheezy is bringing up a sensitive subject and nestling it between his happy wit and dry bitchiness.
Firstly, as for your reasons, I can't pick them apart, because our fundamental beliefs are different. A fetus is a baby, it has the potential for life, for "cognitive thought" as you put it. Though it's more attractive (if you can believe) then a petree dish with sperm and an egg, it has the same potential. Now, there are fuckloads of people on this earth that I really think aren't worth the space, not even worth the small amount of oxygen that they breathe, or the larger amount of oxygen that they contaminate with thier filthy stench. But... Laws being as they are, there is no way that I could just end thier life without reprocussions; and these people are creatures, one who believes in god may say that they are his... But whatever. Each of these children/fetii have the potential for life, and they are, in fact, already alive and developing in the womb. Whether they become a wyno, a druggie, a beggar, the president of the United States, or anything else so horrible, it's not your perogative to take the oppertunity away from them. To kill a child just because his/her father is a rapist is discrimination, and fucked up discrimination at that. Just because my Dad can be an asshole doesn't mean that I'll end up being anything like him, ever. Wow, it's a big inconvienience to have a baby, but you can't just kill it because it's annoying and it's a bad reminder... That's the worst reason to take the life of something. We can't just play god wherever we see fit, it's like a fucked up version of vigilanteism, you hate rapists, so you punish the child? Fucked. Up.
If the child will be a vegetable, in all senses of the word, then it may be justified to terminate the pregnancy. But if the child will be only mentally challenged, or physically handicapped, that's no reason to end a childs life. Quality of life is immeasureable, we all have the stuff that makes each of us happy, and we have our levels of satisfaction, so a person in a wheelchair just has a different spectrum of which he measures his joys and pleasure. Maybe he can't jump around or kick someone's ass that well, but he may have other shit he likes to do, and that makes him happy. It's no one else's business telling other people what sort of quality of life they have.
And anyway, it's like this. If a grown man goes into a coma, but the doctors say that it'll only be short term, but for now, he can't function on his own, he likely doesn't have any thought process, he may not smell like an undouched pussy, (god help us if he does...) but other then that, he fits the description of not being alive. Does that mean you should take him off of life support? No. Because he's alive, and soon he'll gain his regular abilities and be fit as a goddamned fiddle. He still has great potential to live, same as a fetus. You can't descriminate because this asshole has already had 30 years to fuck the world over.
Danielle.
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