Abortion - yet another rant

[jeanvieve]

Please disregard if you like - I won't debate on FB. But sometimes I need a good, solid rant, and screaming at a blank wall is about the same as writing TO the person in question. Especially if they're your cousin and you just don't need the family drama/grief. So this is to my cousin Mike.

I have had a abortion. Actually, I had more than one. If this makes me a horrible baby killing murderer in your eyes, I will not blame you if you unfriend me. In fact, I encourage it highly.

Especially if you don't care why. If you think there can be no justification short of rape or incest, then unfriend me.

If you think that you can change my mind about why I'm for early to mid term abortions, and even late term under life threatening circumstances. unfriend me. If you think that any female on this planet considers abortion as a viable method of birth control, unfriend me because you're a moron. Better if you actually go talk rationally to girls who have had them and ask what was going on in their lives that they did it, but I'm not convinced you can do it in a non-judgemental or accusatory manner. Not from the stuff you post.

If you really in your heart believe that life and a soul happen at the first cell division, you'll be happier unfriending me because I think you're a moron for that too.

If you think that God can cause miscarriages and it's okay, and that God can make a bunny deliberately re-absorb multiple fetuses back into it's womb, but it's not okay for humans to do it, then unfriend me by all means. If you think that God made frogs and sharks able to change their gender and reproduce without boys but that reproduction is God's gift to Man alone, then by all means unfriend me.

I really won't miss the way you and your posts and your writing make my stomach knot up with helpless rage and frustration, as must be the case with me for you. I don't want you to lose sleep. I do not want to lose sleep either. I will not engage in debates with you, especially if you are not fully versed in science and biology, or even the English language when there are dictionaries at your fingertips. I will not debate with you on topics you have chosen to champion based on rhetoric instead of your own experience and research.

So if you're against abortion, don't have one. If you believe it's murder, then we don't have much to say to one another and never will, because this is an emotional issue for both of us and people don't change their minds on emotional issues.

If you need to label me a leftist commie, tree hugger, murdering bitch of a socialist in your head to make you happy about unfriending me, I'm okay with that.

And yeah, I'll probably unfriend you in particular in a week or so once I calm down and the issue fades away. You'll never miss me, I don't think. I sure won't miss you.

Comments

[dailymom.livejournal.com]

family drama/grief sucks.

Mike's answer was terrible, I say unfriend him.

You go girl.

[harddraver.livejournal.com]

My family all pretty much thinks like I do, and, apparently like you do. We never have arguments over serious stuff. We rarely have strong opinions on stuff at all. I have alot of respect for people that do, however, and I hope that your cousin can be openminded enough to accept that the world doesn't always think like he does. Seems unlikely though....