second look

 In Christina Valdez's post titled “Why Not Give it a Second Look?” I find that the most important people in the situation were ignored. The main focus should be on the women in this situation who are doing the choosing, yes choosing, for themselves to go through the procedure. I think it's very arrogant and condescending to make them “rethink” their decision. As if they probably didn't put much thought into it, but the second time around they will suddenly come to their senses and give in to public pressure.

 The woman who makes the decision, is a living, breathing, thinking human being. In my opinion the fetus does not have the same rights as the person carrying it. If there is an argument about the life form growing inside a person, the person should be the one to decide what is best for them without government interference.

 In her argument and in other pro-sonogram bill arguments I've seen is that they somehow seem to think that women with an unwanted pregnancy quickly, with no hesitation come to the conclusion of having an abortion. They don't think that women have already thought about the consequences, and thought about what it would be like if they decided to keep the baby, or adopt.

 Her argument that we could be saving a future technological genius is not really an argument for life as much as it is an appeal to American's materialism and our sympathies. There's no arguing that Steve Jobs was a brilliant man but there are millions of other brilliant people, if he wasn't around someone else would have been around, and we would be consuming what they produced. That's why we should be focusing on the lives that are here, in the present in this certain situation.

 If we begin to let legislation begin to try and deter us away from making our own choices, how long will it take for them to make even more radical legislation. The question “Why not give it a second look?” is unthoughtful and rude, to me the question should be“Why not leave people to choose what they want”?