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”?
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