Don't Tell Me What to Do!
Not too long ago I was driving home from an event I was attending and was pulled over by an officer of the law. He had noticed that I was not wearing my seatbelt--a punishable offense in Washington state and throughout the country. I was angry. Not that I received the ticket but because there is something contradictory in that law that has bothered me for some time.
Whenever Democrats attack the Conservative Republican, and by attack I do mean the hateful things that come out of their mouths, the issue of abortion will always enter the conversation. Now, I am not a Conservative Republican, but I am a Christian. And the issue of abortion is a touchy one. I don't agree that abortion should be used as birth control, as it too often is, but I understand the need for an abortion in those cases where mental strife or physical safety are an issue. The new DNC states that:
"The issue is not abortion," Dean told the closed-door fund-raiser. "The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do."(http://www.ljworld.com/deanfordrudge.html)
Okay Mr. Dean, I will believe you. The issue is whether a woman can make up her own mind instead of some right-wing pastor--sorry pastors but you don't have the right to an opinion because you are ignorant enough to believe in God and Jesus--how silly you are!-- or some right-wing politician telling them what to do. So then Mr. Dean, I am anxiously awaiting your support of a new law that will outlaw mandatory seatbelt laws. Because as I see it, if a woman has the right to potentiall harm her body through an abortion, as well as stop the growth of living organism, regardless of how insignificant you personally believe that embryo is, then damn it, I have the right to potentially die in MY automobile, that I pay for, because I know what is best for me, not some left-wing doctor or some left-wing politician telling me otherwise. It is my body. Don't tell me what to do with it.
Whenever Democrats attack the Conservative Republican, and by attack I do mean the hateful things that come out of their mouths, the issue of abortion will always enter the conversation. Now, I am not a Conservative Republican, but I am a Christian. And the issue of abortion is a touchy one. I don't agree that abortion should be used as birth control, as it too often is, but I understand the need for an abortion in those cases where mental strife or physical safety are an issue. The new DNC states that:
"The issue is not abortion," Dean told the closed-door fund-raiser. "The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do."(http://www.ljworld.com/deanfordrudge.html)
Okay Mr. Dean, I will believe you. The issue is whether a woman can make up her own mind instead of some right-wing pastor--sorry pastors but you don't have the right to an opinion because you are ignorant enough to believe in God and Jesus--how silly you are!-- or some right-wing politician telling them what to do. So then Mr. Dean, I am anxiously awaiting your support of a new law that will outlaw mandatory seatbelt laws. Because as I see it, if a woman has the right to potentiall harm her body through an abortion, as well as stop the growth of living organism, regardless of how insignificant you personally believe that embryo is, then damn it, I have the right to potentially die in MY automobile, that I pay for, because I know what is best for me, not some left-wing doctor or some left-wing politician telling me otherwise. It is my body. Don't tell me what to do with it.
posted by Mr. McNamar at 10:01 AM
3 Comments:
I’m glad that I’m not the only one who gets riled up about inconsistent political shenanigans.
I agree. It is the Nanny State at an extreme.
What do you think of this new approach of the Democrats, focusing instead on access to actual birth control rather than abortion.
Morality aside, we must recognize that young people are going to have sex, despite what they are taught about abstinence. It seems to me that birth control is where pro-abortion and anti-abortion sides could meet. I guess the problem is that some would consider most forms of birth control as a type of abortion.
Hand out the condoms. My wife, a missionary daughter, and I, son of an Assemblies of God Deacon, will raise or future children to believe that promiscuity is wrong, that the best option is waiting until marriage, but that if they choose to have sex, they darn well better use protection.
The problem with the big "E" Evangelicals, as Brian McLaren calls them, is that though their ideas be noble and true, reality dictates an additional course of action. Not a different one, but a message to coincide that of abstinence as the best option. Clearly it is not the only option.
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