To Abort or Not to Abort

So, everybody has a view about this topic.  Am I nervous to state mine?  Honestly, yeah; a little, but… Actually, it is why I was booted out of Mable Syndrome family.  I was so happy to be writing blogs, especially since they’d be seen by a great, number of people.  However, I only had a chance to get one posted before…

A couple months ago, I’d shared a post on my fb page.  A post about abortion.  An advocate of MS, who, appearances would suggest, hardly viewed my page, saw that post and asked me an odd question.  Prior to her question, I messaged her, asking if she was ready for my 2^nd blog.  Her reply, not a direct answer to my query, but I already knew the outcome, was that she saw such-and-such post on my wall, and could I explain it?

I thought, What is there to explain?  Knowing if one doesn’t stand for something, he/she will fall for anything, I took a breath and proudly typed, “I am Pro-Life all the way.”

Yep, this Punkstar is not for abortion.

So, basically, though I’m an excellent writer, I was instantly canned.

There are many arguments, big, small, around this crisis.  I’m not here to judge, though it might seem otherwise once I expound.  I tried to think of how to write this, but I’ll just straight-forwardly say I refuse to stand for murdering innocent, defenseless people, much less infants.

Though not yet outside the womb, a fetus is a living being, completely helpless and dependent on you, completely unaware, innocent of any wrong doing.  There is a heartbeat, a developing brain, they will grow what you already have.

I get it, some of you are saying, “Joey, you’re such a bitch.  What about a rape victim who ends up pregnant?  What about the babies who will be born severely disabled?  They won’t have a life anyway.  What about my teenaged daughter, whose boyfriend left when he found out she was pregnant?  You’re heartless.”  No victim of rape ever deserved that.  I truly am sorry for those cases or cases that involve foul play.  However, it might interest, or surprise, you to know that less than 5% of forced intercourse, revealing a positive pregnancy test, result in getting an abortion.

And, though doctors went to school for a very long time to be great at what they do, no doctor can definitively tell you your disabled child will have no good quality of life.  Although my disability arose when I was 4 months old-not from birth-doctors told my parents I’d be braindead.  Clearly, they were wrong.

Yes, “oops babies” happen frequently.  He forgot to put on the condom, she did properly take birth-control; there are many instances where people tried Not to have a baby, but their plan failed.  Aside from the inevitable but true statement, “There are so many parents who can’t have kids-give the baby to them,” there are a lot of reasons not to abort.  Shows, movies, today, will sometimes put an unplanned pregnancy into the plot.  But, sadly, the message is usually, if the woman chooses to abort, they can simply take a couple pills, maybe cramp or feel ill for a few days, but then they can continue their life.

Presto; no baby, no worry.

Messages like that are miss-leading, ignorant, and ludicrous.  But they’re popular, because nobody wants to be called a murderer.  I thought about this today-some of the abortion techniques-and realized inmates who are going to be executed have a more comfortable death than a baby being aborted.  Serial killers, rapists, hard criminals aren’t killed by dismemberment, suction aspiration, or other harsh ways.

Being Punk means going against the grain, not conforming to government authority, not becoming part of the masses without brains-sticking it to the man-yes, but punks achieve that through strong-mindedness and inclusion-unity.  How does killing children fit into that idea?  Every being has a right to life, so I’m glad Roe Vs. Wade is being rethought.  As the saying goes, “Destroy power, not people.”

Punx Unite