Hi. I´m the sister of ArtisticPlatypus. I saw my brother browsing this topic and now I have read through it. To be honest, I don´t know very much about this, but I want to tell you about three people I know.
The first one is a girl who has done abortion four times. I think this is very sad because it doesn´t seem like she has so much respect to life, and not to herself either. It´s terrible. (No shadow on her though, I´m not trying to say that she is a bad person.)
I know that she´s far from unique and I think that it´s the societys responsibility to prevent this from happening by teaching people about the risks having sex brings, and also how to protect themselves from unwilling pregnacys.
A couple of years ago I got to know a man who just had broked up with his girlfriend. Just a week after the break up she found out that she was pregnant. They tried to go back together because of the child, but it didn´t work out at all (why is really not your business).
He and I were talking about it a lot and he told me that he, more than anything, wanted a child. But, he didn´t want to share a baby with a person he hated, and that he wanted to be a dad who could be there for his child every day.
Very selfish of him, maybe, yes. But I think that his feelings are important and counts too. You could say that he didn´t have any respect of life, but you can also turn it the other way around. He respected his child so much so he only wanted it if he could give it everything. And a child is something that changes your life forever, not just the first twenty years or so.
The last person I want to tell you about is a girl who got raped and pregnant when she was twelwe years old. Is it right to lay the weight of a child on someone who´s not grown up herself? An abortion are of course not a good or nice choice, but with good help of all kinds it might be the best. Maybe not for everyone, but if it is the right thing for one girl, well, then I think she should have the right to do it.
All those storys ended in abortions - right or wrong I don´t know, I don´t feel like the right person to judge that. Do you actually have the right to judge other people and their choices? Think about that.
I don´t have any kids of my own, but I think that carrying and giving birth to a baby is such a big deal for the woman that she should have the right to say no. And, again, I think lots of tragedies could be prevented with the right help and information. There´s where we should try to put our energy.
Old lies and fireflies, carve angels on your eyes and all is undone.'
~ TUNNG, "Bullets"
