Lika’s Log

Posting ones opinion about ‘abortion’ on a message board is like posting about religion and politics. It can turn into a debate, someone will agree with you, someone will strongly disagree with you and/or someone will try to sway you one way or the other. Which to me means tension. I didn’t post my opinion because I’m non-confrontational. I’m not thick skinned begging for attention like that. I don’t need to be confronted in a forum. They can come here and confront me here where I’m much more comfortable. Besides I’m free to do Portagee Typing in hea and I can edit. Oh yeah and delete. LOL

I am a Pro Choice person. I believe a person should have a choice, options available. If a guy gets hapai he should be able to have a choice too! I was born raised Catholic so how can I say that? I can say that because I believe in having choices. I don’t believe that if I go to worship at some other type of church other then a Catholic one that it is a sin and that I’m going to hell for it. I believe that the choice of whether to terminate a pregnancy is the pregnant persons choice and they are not going to hell. At the least it is legal, safe and available. As oppose to it being illegal, unsafe and done in some not so sanitary back room or office.

I myself have not had an abortion. I know people who have had one. Just because I have the option doesn’t mean I’ll use it. It all depends on the individaul situations. I’ve not been in that predicament per se. I just know if I was, I’d want it to be there as an option. The question becomes: Would I have an abortion? I seriously don’t know because it would depend on the situation but I am glad to know that that option is there for me.

There are those who will argue that aborting is taking a life. When does life begins? Some say conception others say after a few weeks when its a viable fetus. I’m not sure, what do I know. I learned it in Biology 101 and I’ve not retained the information. But my professor was an evolutionist, pure scientist type. The way he explained it made sense to me because he explained it from a cellular level and knew what he was talking about from a scientific point of view. Considering this class was in the center of the Bible Belt of America, most of the class did not agree with him. He knew that and told the class, I know most of you don’t agree with me but this is my class and agree or disagree you need to know this because its going to be on your exam.

I remember one of the arguements was that if life started at conception then cells are life. So if cells are life then they are being killed off regularly. The sperm is a cell, the egg is the other cell needed to create a human. So if the sperm is “restrained” from doing its duty is that not aborting. The egg not being fertiliezed is that aborting. No, its rags; part of the process. *L* But I remember a guy in class saying something about ~ so wearing a condemn or masterbating is like abortion cause he was killing his sperm(s) & preventing a life that could be? It was one of those you had to be there in class moments. My professor was funny so it made for an interesting class.

As a Mom, I feel that its hard being a child in this day and age. Its even harder being a parent. I think being a parent is the hardest job in the world. A parent has to be dedicated to making their child the best person they can be. There are books & manuals to guide you in being a parent but as every parent knows its on the job training, you do your best and pray a lot. What about the parent(s) who doesn’t care or know how to be parents? They’re people who are not meant to have kids cause they are worthless parents especially if there is drugs, alcohol and diseases. We wonder why there are so many messed up kids nowadays, well look at the parents.

We learn to be parents from our parents. Granted my parents were far from perfert. I grew up under the threat of the belt, before any social services was even heard of I think. But their was a basic foundation of love, respect, responsibility, doing your best, not shaming out your ohana, etc. Whateva I did was reflection of the whole family, dead ones and all; that really use to really piss me off. But as a parent, now I understand the concept at least. My parents didn’t believe in abortion. Like it was something they would talk about. So why do I?

I believe in abortion because if I was hapai by rape or incest or with a child with severe genetic abnormalities or whatever hardship circumstances there may be; I may want to be da first one in line. Could I handle the issues of an unwanted pregnancy, what would I tell a child of rape or incest, could I raise this child like a regular kid?

Leave Rowe vs. Wade alone.

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