Murder or Birth Control?
There are any number of serious problems facing our country and I haven’t the faintest idea how to solve any of them. However over several years a few friends and family members have asked about my views on certain of those subjects and I wrote a series of letters to them both individually and as a group. I also wrote some satirical stories to give a distorted view of my opinions. I even went so far as to post a few of them on Gather, which is a neat forum because I can post them for all my friends and not have to sent out a bunch of e-mails.
There are a couple topics about which I haven’t written or published anything. One because it is so easy and one because I really haven’t figured out what I actually believe.
Gun control is the easy one because every home in the country should have a gun. I’ll not go into more detail about that right now, but just say that if you wish to present your argument to me against this idea, come over to my house some night after dark, jimmy open a window, and stick your head inside. I’m sure you’ll come around to my point of view.
The one I haven’t figured out yet is the subject of gays and gay marriage. I believe homosexuality is immoral and my initial thoughts on it are that it should stay that way. I’m not yet open enough to agree to gay marriages, but I haven’t come up with a good argument about that. And, before you ask, yes I do enjoy watching two women doing each other.
If you have any curiosity about my thoughts on other topics I’m including a few of them with their links at the end of this treatise.
Personally I disagree with the concept of abortion although the subject has brushed my life three times. First, my mother got pregnant with me (her first baby) when she was thirty-seven years old. In 1946 that was OLD! I was told that the doctor advised her to have an abortion as she was too old to carry a baby full term without possible harm to her or the fetus (me). Fortunately she decided to have me and ? here I am.
Next was a girl in my high school who, in the early sixties, disappeared half way through our junior year. Several days later she was found dead in an abandoned building in a town some thirty miles to the west of here. The paper merely said she bled to death after a botched abortion.
Finally, there was a woman I knew just recently who used abortion as birth control. She never took any precautions and, when she found she was pregnant, she had an abortion. She’d go to a licensed clinic, pay the going price, and a week or so later she was ready to go back out and get pregnant again. I found that morally wrong, even though it was legal.
Even though my contacts with it have been somewhat negative, I still view abortion as one of those things classified as a “necessary evil.” Prior to Roe vs. Wade it was not unusual for women to pay almost any quack whatever they asked to end their pregnancy. Such operations frequently ended with the girl physically mangled or even dead. The only difference between then and now is that there was, at that time, a much greater social stigma attached to an unwed woman who “allowed herself” to get pregnant. Naturally we no longer have that situation. Today the girl has the baby, takes it to school with her and puts it in the child care facility at the school ? paid for by our taxes.
If we outlawed abortion it would become a law only for the poor as it was in the sixties. Women with money will either go to a country where abortion is legal or hire (bribe) a licensed doctor to perform the procedure. Women without money will either have the baby or end up in an alley using the services of the quack with a dirty coat hanger and a bottle of Coke. Another alternative is for them to make the drive to Tiajuana, much as they did in the sixties.
One option strains the welfare system, overburdens children’s shelters, or increases the number of dead babies found in trash cans. The other could result in an increase in the number of women either dead or permanently barren. Yes, I know, there are laws that allow mothers to abandon their children at a hospital or police station with no fear of prosecution, but we still find newborns in trash cans. Mere months ago a newborn was found in a trash can in a fast food restaurant in Orange County.
In starting this I had intended to just state my feelings on abortion. All the time I was writing I was nagged by the fact that the only way to eliminate abortion, as a routine procedure, is to curtail the number of pregnancies. Let’s see, an abortion might be a way to terminate a pregnancy, so just what causes pregnancy? Um, I think it’s sex. Yep, I’m pretty sure that I’ve heard that sex causes pregnancy. With that knowledge we are now faced with either not having sex or preventing pregnancy when we do.
One of the methods proposed to reduce teen pregnancy has been the virginity pledge whereby a teen pledges to not have sex until marriage. One downside of this was brought to light by a study some time ago showing that teens who took that pledge were more likely to engage in oral and anal sex. Our government, in its normal effective manner has addressed this problem. It is the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS). One of their officers, the vice president for public policy, had this to say about virginity pledges:
“This research confirms what we have known for a long time. Teens, regardless of whether they have a taken a virginity pledge, are engaging in behaviors that put them at risk for STDs and unintended pregnancy. It is vitally important that we provide all teens with the information and skills they need to protect themselves.
“Not only do virginity pledges not work to keep our young people safe, they are causing harm by undermining condom use, contraception, and medical treatment. Enough is enough. It is time for lawmakers to stop pushing their ideological agenda at the expense of young people and fund comprehensive and medically accurate sexuality education programs that work.”
At very nearly the same time he made these statements, guidelines developed by SIECUS were released that recommended teaching children as young as 5 about masturbation, teaching nine-year-olds about oral sex, and teen-agers about anal intercourse. If you read the guidelines, not only do they make these recommendations, but there is an underlying message that children should seek counsel other than their parents.
Another problem with this situation is that SIECUS sounds like a government agency, but it is not part of the federal government, it just receives considerable funding from our taxes.
Besides the virginity pledge there are four methods of birth control commonly available. Unfortunately none of them are guaranteed. The first, birth control pills, patches, and shots have their own problems. Some women cannot take them because of other medication or medical problems. There is also a time limit to how long a woman can use them and they have proven to be not completely reliable.
The old standby, condoms, have always had problems. In the heat of the moment people frequently forget to put them on. Also in the height of passion you may find that you don’t have one and don’t want to wait. The final problem is that they sometimes break. If a condom is not put on properly it can break; even when it is correct, it can still break.
Spermicidal creams are designed to be used in conjection with one of the first two methods and generall have a very low rate of success when used alone.
Finally there is the withdrawal technique that is absolutely loaded with troubles. Many people think that only the final climax is what produces pregnancy and don’t realize they can get pregnant with any unprotected insertion. Spermicidal creams help with this, but they can’t provide 100% protection.
Then there’s the question of medical prevention with the development of the Plan B or “morning-after” pill. It has, generally, been proven to be “fairly reliable” in preventing pregnancy if taken within some timeframe after intercourse. This could prove useful in cases of passion gone wild or rape. The trouble with these is that women are having a problem obtaining them.
Somewhere along the line pharmacists decided that they could refuse to fill prescriptions if they had a moral objection to their use. The House Small Business Committee held a hearing in 2005 to determine whether pharmacies had the right to refuse to fill prescriptions. Most of the witnesses were women who had been refused either birth control or emergency contraception.
Once such witness was told by Representative Steve King (R-IA) that she had no “right” to such a prescription ? she only believed she did.
Another witness told of being refused a birth control prescription by a hostile pharmacist. Representative Marily Nusgrave (R-CO) told her that her “minor incovenience” was nothing compared to the “conscience” of a parmacist. That “minor inconvenience” was risking an unintended pregnancy.
As I mentioned above any anti-abortion law will become a law for the poor only because it will always come down to a matter of money. The legality, ultimately, will be decided by the Supreme Court. A court comprising RICH MEN and one or two RICH WOMEN who are past the age of worrying about pregnancy. Are they going to care about the poor? Are they going to care about women? I don’t know about women, but we already have an indication of what they think about the poor.
Someone wanted to build a new mall and had all the money in the world, but wanted more. In order to build the mall he had to get rid of a bunch of people who were living there. Somehow he convinced the local council that they should seize the property under the eminent domain laws in order for him to build his mall. They did. The people objected. It ended up in the Supreme Court and these NINE RICH justices decided it was in the best interests of the community that this RICH MAN should be able to level their homes and build his mall so he could make more money.
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