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The past few days have been a bit odd for me. I've been unsettled about life and issues in a way that is new for me. It's hard to express in words exactly what I've experienced but I think it boils down to a confusion and hopelessness for humanity.

I've been reading more pro-choice articles than is probably good for my soul. I read them looking for a glimmer of something to allow me to see some good in their movement. I looked for empowerment, I looked for justice, and I even looked for some moral good. I looked. What I found was a numb assortment of selfish wants and mortal desires. I found women broken by the establishment of abortion. Women who rely on abortion as a way to put their bodies and selves back into submission. It is about control. But it goes much further than the control over self it is so often portrayed. I found women who are fighting for a cause not because of the moral implications of killing their offspring, but because they are terrified of a world where they would be unable to control their own destinies by means of asserting ultimate control over the destinies of their children.

Control is what it comes down to. After countless years of subservience, women have decided to assert their dominance by enslaving a new group. A weaker group. Because of the injustices of the past, women are inflicting their own injustices for the future. It is quite reminiscent of a certain time, in a certain place, where another group of downtrodden rose to fight not their oppressors, but those who were weak and could be easily overthrown.

Abortion is cowardly. Instead of overthrowing the patriarchal society and reaching for a potential inclusive of maternity, women have pushed aside their very femininity for mans ideology of unrepentant strength. We have become who we hated. We have become heartless monsters trampling anyone who stands in way of our superficial success.

Why has it become acceptable for the oppressed to continue the chain of violence and brut order? Why have we allowed ourselves to sink to the level of the slave owner? Why are we destroying life, not in order for us to live, but in order for us to flourish in the hideous world we refuse to abolish.

This is not acceptable. If our answer to fascism is the domination of the weak, how are we any better than our oppressors? I do not believe that people begin atrocities with the intention to force others into the subjection that they have suffered. Or maybe they do. Maybe this is some sort of revenge via transference...If we can't kill the despot, kill the children.


We have become the monster.

that is very true... you should post it in the debate forum, seriously, it will make them think, plant a seed of doubt at least. it is so beautiful, yet so tragic because it's true.

yes, i was going to somment on it- it would be like an abuse victim torturing animals, beating their own children, or something like that- it just doesn't make sense, one shouldn't need to kill to feel empowered. they need counsiling if that is their mindframe. perhaps one could go as far as saying that pro-choice is a form of mental disorder, like child abuse?

how could any christian even THINK that's ok, at all? seriosuly, THINK- though shalt not kill- simply stated, done, and over. now, even if that's not enough, just TRY explaining to Jesus WHY your nine (actually, again, about 5 noticable, if that) months was worth more than a lifetime

Ahhh...how sad for her. Her ignorance is quite apparent. Ignornace of the Christian faith I mean, as well as the power of God (for those of us who believe, I speak only to believers.) She says its a womans right to chooose and no one elses business what she does. Does this include God? Is it not His business when you decide to kill a life He created? She said what happens in the situation of abortion is for a woman and for a woman alone? Is God excluded form this? Is she, a Christian, who I am now judging through biblical word, saying that God has no place in the decision of a woman to kill her child?

I wish I could find my special voice so I can speak more in this guild, but for now I want to thank you, Broorel, for posting this. ^^

I think one of the most striking things in the argument for abortion is the claim of moral relativity. At risk of sounding like a bible thumping hick, I have only one thing to say. Denying evil is the single most powerful sorce of strenth the Enemy has in his brigade. How much simpler is it to create evil, if no one believes it exists.

and i HATE it when pro choice women say "it was a tough decision, a lot of thought went into it!!!11!"

yes, but YOU'RE not the one who is dead.