The Life of Me

I tend to love bumper stickers. They tend to be hilarious. But this one just isn't:

"Stop the Republican party's War on Women!"

I have a feeling that a lot of people will be mad at me, but I DON'T CARE HOW LONG IT IS--IF YOU DO NOT READ THIS ENTRY, THAT'S JUST PATHETIC. If you skip this one because you're a Democrat, or just someone who's against the alleged Republican "War on Women," then that's just immature. I just read through a whole bunch of anti-Republican articles. Each and every one of them made us sound like evil demons who hate women. (Hey! I'm a woman! I don't hate my own gender! What the heck???) I'm not trying to make you mad, or sad, or feel guilty, or offend you, but all the articles I read before writing this made me feel all of those except for the 3rd. I feel no guilt for supporting life. Because Republicans, we're not fighting against women. WE'RE FIGHTING FOR LIFE. WE'RE FIGHTING FOR FUTURE WOMEN (And men, too, of course). So, without further ado...

I don't consider myself an extremely political person, but I do consider myself perfectly correct when I say that abortion is an awful thing. I repeat, Republicans aren't fighting a "War on Women." We're fighting a "War for Life." You want women's rights? Give some women the right live! It's ridiculous! How do people not realize that abortion is practically a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card for murder? Only it's worse, for many, many reasons. For example: The infant is perfectly innocent. It's done nothing wrong at all. Most of us have. Am I saying murdering grown people is okay because we're all fallen creatures? Heck, no! I knew someone who was killed. It's a terrible thing!

Abortion doesn't always work, anyways. And if it doesn't, the child will have to live with the knowledge that their parent(s) didn't want them. He/she shouldn't be alive. And it's very likely that the person will have a sickness, deformity, or something like that. They could suffer for their entire lives, because the parent was selfish and didn't want to deal with them. 

And I don't care what the heck your situation is. Did the doctor say your baby may be born with a sickness, deformity, blindness, or deafness? (I do care about the baby if any of those are true--and I care even if they aren't--but you know what I mean.) So, killing them is your solution? Really? We all have problems like that, big and small. But anything is possible. The child could be born perfectly healthy, or the problem could fix itself later in the person's life, or they could just live with the condition. People have done it before. I've seen miracles.

Or is the infant not the problem? Is it just the pregnancy? Don't want your parents to know you got pregnant? Then you shouldn't have gotten pregnant in the first place. (CLING CLANG, HEAR YE, HEAR YE! Contraception doesn't always work, people!) Now, if you didn't even try to get pregnant--if your were raped or something--then, I'm really sorry. I truly am. I've known people who say abortion is okay then, and I can see why they would think that... But I still disagree. I know, it's got to be hard (and please, don't leave comments like, NO, YOU DON'T KNOW!!! because I'll admit it, I don't know first-hand, but I do know it's got to be hard. I can't imagine how hard, though,) but keep the baby. Please. I beg of you. Your parents let you live. And we always complain about how unfair life is. So make someone else's life a little fairer.

Last thing: some depressing statistics:

16,000 murders per year

39,500 suicides per year

And...

1.2 MILLION abortions per year

That's right. 1,200,000 FREAKING ABORTIONS. In other words, 40,000 babies in every 100,000. In other other words, 1 abortion every 26 seconds. There are roughly 21 times as many abortions as there are murders and suicides combined per year. That's insane. What are we thinking???

Ladies and gentlemen, we really need to reverse and redo Roe v Wade. Because I believe--it's hard to do, but I do believe--that, if everybody just really thinks about it and sees it the right way, that abortion can finally become illegal, and this country can become quite a bit better. So come on, people. Let's get with it.

-Sue Donimm