Now, I'll be the first to admit that I think us women got the short end of the stick. Monthly periods? 9 months of pregnancy? Labor? Yeah, I really wish we could share that load with the men. But we can't, and we never will be able to.
See, here's the thing; in the fight for equal rights, women seem to have forgotten the blatantly obvious fact staring us in the face: we will never be equal to men because we are not men.
Oh hush, I know, sounds unfair. I mean, how dare they be born with different parts than us! How dare they play a different role in reproduction than us!
Oh wait.
Alright, so in case you don't know, a single man and a single woman are needed to make a baby. The man's job is done pretty quickly, when it comes to actually making the tiny miracle, and that's when mom takes over. Her body becomes a powerhouse of unwanted hair, heartburn, and new life. She's now the vessel for a tiny, helpless human being who grows unusually fast until she pushes it out (or it's cut out of her) and then her role is technically done as well. Yes, in an ordinary family situation, she would probably nurse for and care for the baby, but technically speaking, that child no longer needs her body.
Pro-choice people believe that life does not begin until a woman chooses to want the baby, and until that point, it's her right to have the baby cut into pieces and sucked out of her uterus.
Pro-life people believe that life beings at the moment of conception, from the exact second an egg is fertilized. In that instant, you become a parent, and that baby becomes a human, even in cases where the pregnancy is unwanted.
Ever since Roe.v.Wade, the debate has been endless. Is it a woman's right to decide what's going on inside her body? Or does the baby have rights to be there? We've talked ourselves in circles, and the staunch believers on either side show no sign of budging.
But I have an even better idea. One that will completely solve the abortion epidemic. It's super easy, painless, and quick, not to mention a million times safer than an abortion or pregnancy.
DON'T GET PREGNANT.
I know, real simple when you put it that way, huh? It's almost like it's the only way to not have to deal with a baby or an abortion!
Ah, but some of you are mocking me.
"You can't just not get pregnant!"
"It's not that easy!"
"What about cases of rape!"
"What about teenagers! Don't you want them to finish school?"
"What about when the father walks out on her!"
Oh, the questions are endless! But let me stop you there, and answer some of the most common objections to this rather simple fix.
- You can just not get pregnant. You're all gung-ho for getting your birth control pills, so be a grown up and use them. And if there is some reason you can't do that, be a grown up and use a condom. They're cheap, sometimes free, and as long as you use them right (it's really easy) then you have a 99% chance of not getting pregnant. Trust me. They work.
- It is that easy! Literally, just pause for about 10 seconds, slip a condom on, and there ya go. Get back to it, you're safe, no pregnancy, so no abortions.
- In cases of pregnancy due to rape (which is way lower than some would have you believe), having an abortion gets rid of the evidence. I'm not even going to argue the moral point, where a baby shouldn't have to die just because of someone's wrong-doing, I'm just going to state the fact that a baby is living proof that you were raped. A court will not believe you unless you have evidence. I could accuse anyone I wanted to of rape, but unless the judge sees some evidence, they can't and won't convict a rapist. And besides that, the chances of getting pregnant after a single, violent rape are very low. You're more likely to get pregnant due to serial rape, which needs to be reported so the sicko rapist gets thrown in a cell to rot. Aborting the baby is often a rapist's way out. Then, not only does the girl have to deal with the trauma of being raped, she also has to deal with the emotional fallout of having an abortion (and yes, most women become severely depressed because your body knows how wrong and dangerous is, even if you won't admit it), and she has to deal with the physical symptoms as well (because having an abortion is super dangerous for the mother as well, and can even go so far as to kill you).
- If you are too young to have a baby, you're too young to be having sex, end of story. Maybe, if we taught our teenagers the consequences of having sex, taught them that there are ways to prevent pregnancy, and that it's safer, and healthier, to wait until you're an adult to have sex we wouldn't have such a big problem. If you don't have a job, you're still in school, or you're too young for a serious relationship and a baby keep your legs together.
- And lastly, don't have sex with a man who you're in danger of loosing due to a baby. Because if he's not man enough to own up to his little hiccup, he's not man enough to share a bed with you. Don't jump in the sack on the third date, get to know him, find out if he's the kind that would leave you in the instance of a pregnancy, or better yet, get a ring on that finger to seal the deal first.
Come on ladies. We are women. It's our job to protect our own bodies. If you're out there, by yourself, drinking until you don't know what's happening, then what do you expect to have happen? There's a lot of bad people out there, who are just waiting to prey on women who let their guard down, so why would you make it easier for them? Might not sound like as much fun, but really, just take a friend with you. Don't drink so much. Don't get black out drunk around so many people you don't know. It's a stupid move. You never deserve to get raped, but there's a lot of ways you can prevent it, just by being a little more wise.
The reason we are even having this problem is because women don't want to take responsibilities for their actions. If you're adult enough to have sex, then you're adult enough to understand that your actions have consequences. Sometimes very serious, life-altering consequences. You're not a woman if you believe your should be able to just get rid of a human life just because it's inconvenient for you. You're still a child who needs looking after, because clearly you can't be trusted to make good, adult choices. It's all on you. I know there is a second party in this act, but you have every right to say no, to walk away, or to just not put yourself in a situation where a man thinks he can have sex with you without any consequences.
Ladies, if we want the world to change, to respect us, then we first must respect ourselves. There is no respect in a woman with loose morals, who think it's alright to have irresponsible, unprotected sex with absolutely no consequences. Is it any wonder there are so many men who treat women like a sex object? It's because we have fought so hard to make sure there are none!
A woman's rights extend as far as a man's. We have the same right to have sex, we have the same right to health care, and we have the same right to life. We do not have the right to kill someone else just because their life inconveniences us. Nobody has that right.
Cheers!
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