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To the editor:
In recent years, it has become rather fashionable for women--mainly celebrities, naturally, in the name of awareness and inspiring others--to proudly brag about having had an abortion. Most, seemingly, in their youthful salad days, before their fame. Some were apparently after celebrity, however, when they could presumably have afforded any and all contraceptive measures available. Some brag of multiple abortions ... apparently, just because they could. It's almost like they got pregnant just to abort, and to wear it like a medal.
Infanticide pride.
This has, indeed, inspired young women across social media to do the same, much to the chagrin of we regular, sensible people, who think abortion--especially when simply to avoid a cumbersome inconvenience--should be a last resort, at most.
Do these wretched, soulless creatures understand that quite a few other avenues of birth control exist, besides the abortion clinic?
Adoption, anyone?
In the early 1970s, when legalizing abortion in the U.S. was being debated, opponents predicted it would someday become commonplace, a method of avoiding personal responsibility. Proponents laughed, saying that would never happen. It was simply a matter of women's health.
Well, here we are 50 years later, with an average of 3,000 abortions per day. Not exactly mammograms and pelvic exams. Outrageously, in some states, it's now legal to terminate a full-term, live baby. After birth.
Would I, personally, like abortion to go away?
I suppose not, completely -- there is something to be said for genuine, if infrequent, medically necessary procedures. Likewise, the old chestnut about the monstrous, incompetent back-alley abortionist.
Although, licensed, sanctioned, practiced abortionists can be pretty monstrous, themselves. Look up the record of "Dr." Kermit Gosnell and his hellish chamber of horrors. This probable sociopath is now serving life, plus 30, for his tender ministrations.
Myself, I support personal responsibility and accountability. Don't just fall into bed (or wherever) and rut like deer; use some of that God-given, human intellect. Just for a moment, pause and consider the very likely, very long-term consequences of this fleeting moment of overwhelming passion.
Of course, this would require a bit of restraint, a grain of forethought, a minor sense of personal responsibility … things of which the worldview supporting unfettered abortions are not fond. Consequences to irresponsible actions?
Geez. Who wants to think about that, when you're steaming up the windows?
Sate yourselves first, kids, then worry about it, right?
Pregnancy is probably the most avoidable medical condition there is. It's easier to have a car accident, or fall and break a bone, than to get pregnant by mistake. All that's required is to use contraception, some of which can actually be obtained for free, were the effort made.
Or--and this is crazy, I know--just don't have sex.
(Insert flourish of scary music)
Now, I do realize that as a male, I have absolutely no right to an opinion on this topic. Or so I've been told, by various angry women on social media. What a convenient way to avoid an uncomfortable discussion.
Rob Denham
Weirton