Why are people less concerned about orphans and homeless street kids but so up in arms against abortion?
I conceived my second baby barely four and half months after my first.
When I found out I was exactly two months and a couple of weeks pregnant.
I had zero interest in aborting my baby as I wanted siblings close in age, (perhaps not that close!).
But the doctor preempted me and sternly said in admonitory tones, "You can't abort as the fetus is above two months", a small significant pause, and then on a triumphant note, "It's illegal."
Well I assured her I had no intention of aborting and that I welcomed the new life inside me.
Inside, I laughed at her somewhat taken aback expression.
To be fair, she was a nice old lady and probably just preconditioned like we all are as women, to jump through the usual patriarchal circus hoops.
Namely, feel guilty exercising freedom of choice, right of opinion speech or even thought as women, the moment the issue impinges on the interests of both the sexes.
Now years later all this pro-life, pro choice debates make me think...
It's's not a laughing matter that men invariably try to legislate and corner women into a subservient dependant position whether out of natural testosterone based aggression, or out of fear and insecurity.
Whether it's the right to voteto, to drive, to drink, to carry a child to term or not...
It takes two sexes to procreate.
What alarms the "Stronger sex", ( ;) ), however is the fact that the child can only see the light of the world through the agency of a feminine channel.
And so they want to legislate that a woman who is carrying a child be compelled to bear it!
Why?
The reason is not religious or moral or ethical though people have been conditioned into thinking that it is.
It is the age old power play...the struggle for domination and the lack of trust between the two genders...lamentably of the same species, at the top rung of the evolutionary ladder to boot!
Because men are well accustomed to a patriarchal set up....and are, well..so patronizing, they assume, (much like dominant superpowers), that it's their right and prerogative, nay, even moral obligation and responsibility, to set the world to order.
Not content to leave the continuity of the species to God and Natural evolution, they want to bully women into becoming perpetual unquestioning wombs and vessels of
continuity.
And employing typically aggressive male tactics, they coerce, arm twist and use vehement propaganda. ..to bring women to their heels... rather like obedient animals. ..pets bred for a purpose.
Why else wouldn't they realize and acknowledge how much women long to save rather than nip a budding life?
And that the choice of abortion would be for independent morally responsible women an evil necessity, an exception that proves the rule that life is indeed precious, and should not be irresponsibly brought into the world?
As for teen pregnancies and uninformed multiple conceptions and subsequent abortions...those are not morally responsible adult women and citizens but misguided children.
You don't legislate against them, you educate them. By spending money resources time and effort.
(c) Amrita Valan 2015
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