‘A’ Is For…

It’s back to school time people!!! I love this time of the year. I love to watch the leaves turn colors. I love the noise they make when they crinkle under you feet. Makes me feel like a kid again. Speaking of starting school, buy school supplies. Even if you don’t have kids. You can donate them to your local schools. Schools and kids are in constant need of the basics!! And you’ll feel good doing it too. And while I’m on the subject, I never feel obligated to tell people what do-gooder shyt I do. But it trips me out when little f*ckers say shyt like, “Well what are you doing for the community?” Like in order to be doing something, I have to advertise it to his little knee-high b*tch ass. Wooo-hooo. I got caught up for a minute.

To the title. ‘A’ is for…

Abortion. You read right. Not only are the little ones going back to school but so are the big ones. And right around mid October you’ll notice subtle hits of panic of the faces of college kids everywhere. Someone’s missed her period! Some guy is saying, “She screwed everyone…It’s not mine.” Someone is plotting to get the abortion money from the parents. Someone is praying to God that it’s just a fluke. It’s right around this time that the abortion clinics get the first influx of college kids. The second is usually after Spring Break.

What can I say? I don’t have a story about having one because I never have. And as best I can imagine, I never will. Does this mean I wouldn’t have when I was younger? Nope. I was pro-choice then and I’m pro-choice now. The difference is that now, even being pro-choice, the odds of me having the kid are WAY higher than they were when I was younger. A lot of people think being pro-choice means I’m pro-abortion. No siree Bob!! I’m pro-choice. I am all for women having the option to do as they please with their bodies.

People make mistakes. And as I told my girl the other day, not on the topic of abortion but general life issues. If you realize you made a mistake, you can undo it. You shouldn’t feel like you have to suffer through it nor should you feel bad about undoing it. But with abortion, I can’t be as firm about seeing it as a way to fix a mistake. You get into issues about when life starts and if the fetus really feels any pain. The Bible Beaters will argue you up and down that you’re killing a child. Although they are never willing to present concrete, undisputable proof that at those earliest stages, the fetus is a baby. Sure it may feel stuff, but some tumors respond to pain. They aren’t babies. I say give the woman a choice. And if having an abortion means going to Hell, let her choose to go.

Some people use it as their only form of birth control. I knew a chick, and I knew her well, she had her first abortion at 16. From then to the time she was 23, she had 7. We only count it as 7 even though once was twins. She went to different places each time. From Pennsylvania to the DC Metro area. She claimed all birth control pills made her sick. Condoms?? Never. Those weren’t comfortable to her partners. In all other areas, she was a bright girl. Hard worker. Very nice. But when it came to sex and getting knocked up, she was Boo-Boo The Fool. Eventually, she got pregnant by a guy she’d known for four months and had to have the baby. Something about scar tissue and it being a surprise that she could even get pregnant anymore.

I’d like to think women like this are rare. I mean who’d want to go through that several times. I have heard nothing good about the experience–no matter when in the pregnancy it occurs. I’d like to believe, naw, forget it, I will believe that most of the abortions are gotten by people who made a mistake. Not by people who have made getting pregnant and not keeping it a pattern. We always hear about the poor teenage girl who had abortions. But there have to be regular people, regular adults who have them too. Just for different reasons. And you know what? *thinking* I don’t know any regular adults who’ve admitted to having any. Cus I was wanting to recount a story but I have none.

Quick, someone get me the stats on how much money is spent on anti-abortion campaigns and by whom. Then cross reference that to how much those same groups spend on helping under-priviledged kids or wards of the state. I’d be interested to know just how the two expenditures compare.

Surely abortion has some place in this society. I mean, if we take religion out of the equation…Cus for real, if the breeders were so religious, wouldn’t they not be having sex outside of wedlock?? Or wouldn’t they just keep the baby because they’re married? I’m not one of those people who think every pregnancy is a blessing. There I said it. If a child is born to circumstances that are overwhelmingly likely to make that child suffer, I say it’s no blessing. At least not to that child. I don’t mean every child needs to be born with a silver spoon in his/her mouth. Naw. But you can not tell me that a child born to a crackhead who is estranged from family (for support) is a blessing or being blessed by entering this world. It’s a fine line, I know. And it’s not up to me to make the decisions for Sally Crackhead, is it?? Wait, it is?? You mean to tell me all this time, I could have been running thangs?? Oh I misunderstood.

I wonder if the pro-lifers ever think about what happens to these unwanted kids?? Because if they are so concerned about forcing a woman to give birth, shouldn’t they be just as concerned, if not more, about what happens to the baby after it’s pushed from her womb? Maybe they are. But I am too lazy to find stats. Which is why you got this admittedly ramble-tastic post.