allmydreams's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- they all want to fuck the cause dear god, i am exhausted. i just spent the last two hours engaging in some pretty heated discourse analysis...with microsoft word. it's much more fun to talk about with other people. blah. i don't even want to think about the fact that i'm only halfway done with this paper, or the fact that i have a stupid honor society meeting in about half an hour. therefore, i will waste time/clear my brain by engaging in a little diaryland pontification. let me first say that i am not a militant or radical person, in any sense of the words. in fact, there are not very many issues i feel passionate about at all. as someone who studies philosophy, i regularly engage in arguments, but mostly only because i believe rational arguments and critical thinking are the best ways to exercise one's brain. that said, i get really fucking upset when i see gigantic billboards of mutilated fetuses on my campus. i am, in fact, more anti-pro-life than i am pro-pro-choice...if that makes any sense at all. i don't know if abortion is morally permissible. all i know is that when you strip away the gory fetus pictures and the claims heavily laden with emotive terms, most people who support the pro-life view don't have much of an argument. i mean, i eat flesh. and i'm pretty damn sure that most of them do too. i know that seems like sort of an ad hominem statement, but it's fairly relevant considering that we're a meat eating society...and most conservatives who hold a pro-life view are pretty friendly with nice, juicy steaks. how can you say that it's wrong to kill a clump of cells if you're willing to butcher an animal with a completely developed nervous system? how can you say that it's alright to remove a cancerous tumor from someone's body, but not alright to remove a fetus? both are living things. granted, the fetus will most likely develop into a functional human being--but the matter of the fact is that at least during the first two trimesters, the fetus is NOT a human being in any morally relevant sense. if a woman does not want a fetus in her body, then it is more similar to a growing cancerous tumor than we may want to realize. more importantly, in a world crowded by overpopulation, why birth more children than necessary? i know, as a 20 year old young adult, that if i were to get pregnant, i would not keep the child. the guilt of killing a fetus would not even come close to matching the guilt i would feel for missing out on the all of the opportunities i'm on track for. maybe it sounds cruel, but it's just not worth it. and maybe some people don't realize it, but the right to have an abortion is a pretty heated issue in the supreme court. so fuck yeah, i'm proud of my right as a woman to be able to kill a fetus if i want or need to. and i support the pro-choice stance, but it's more than that. i'm not necessarily straight up pro-abortion--i think that if other means are possible, such as adoption, then that's great...but i really fucking hate when ignorant pro-life religious freaks invade my campus. i just don't think it's necessary...and that's all i have to say about that.
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