http://faerye.net/post/choiceComments on "Choice" - Faerye Net2007-01-23T07:34:08+00:00http://faerye.net/post/choice#comment-2070No subject2007-01-23T07:34:08+00:002007-01-23T07:34:08+00:00<p>Way to start a fire!<br />
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I’d be dead if choice weren’t an option. If staying alive hadn’t been an issue, I would have had one miserable child b/c I was well-unprepared. Thirdly, my life would have gone black. Some people like children. I have deep seated issues. There’s my two cents.</p>nursefusionhttp://faerye.net/post/choice#comment-2069Pro Choice2007-01-23T00:52:06+00:002007-01-23T00:52:06+00:00<p>I am pro choice too. But the “choice,” in my opinion, comes a little earlier in the game. Politics aside, what everyone is arguing about really isn’t a “choice.” It’s a consequence—of a choice that was already made, with full knowledge of the risk involved. <br />
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But we live in a society where we do not feel responsible for the consequences of our own choices. It’s never our fault; if I’m bad, it’s because my daddy beat me, or my mommy drank too much. We don’t like giving up our pleasures or taking responsibility for our actions. <br />
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Perhaps it’s because of the miserable months I spent in the hospital, away from my family and friends, unable to see my other children, trying to save the life of a baby that was, at the outset, still legally abortable. <br />
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Perhaps it was the long, lonely, miserable nights when my only comfort was the sound of his heartbeat from the machines in the darkness—“shoom-shoom, shoom-shoom.” It’s been 20 years, but I can hear it like it was yesterday.<br />
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Or perhaps it was the weeks I spent hovering over his incubator, waiting for each breath, willing him to live. <br />
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Whatever the reason, for me it’s not about political agendas. I don’t want to rob anyone of their birth control, or force anyone to follow some moral code of my own making. The raw truth of it is that I simply can’t justify the taking of an innocent life for the sake of convenience, by someone who wants pleasure without having to deal with the responsibility of the potential consequences. <br />
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In the words of Mother Teresa, “It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”<br />
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There’s my two cents. :)</p>LadyLong