Three lives
If you read this entire thing, congrats.
February 25, 2008, a large number of headlines in the United States read “Mother Drowns Three Children”. That was not the first time a mother has gone crazy, or been desperate enough to murder her own children. Of course, everyone who read this story agreed that the mother should get prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law because what she did was planned and/or against the law. The fact of the matter is, there are about 4,000 children murdered every day. That’s over one million a year. But not by being drowned, poisoned or starved to death. These murders are legal today in the United States. The children are killed by an act called abortion.
Those who are pro-choice try to argue that it should be a woman’s choice to have a baby or not. Maybe the woman should have been on birth control, or they should have used protection. The best way to not get pregnant is to not have sex. If two people are in a committed relationship and that’s what they want, they should be ready to accept the consequences and responsibility of getting pregnant.
When someone gets raped or is a victim of incest, they tend to use those factors as an excuse to get an abortion. My cousin was raped and got pregnant at 17 and decided to have an abortion. She says it was one of the most horrible procedures to go through and she regrets it on a daily basis. My cousin, or others who have been raped, could have put the child up for adoption. That way, the child would have had the chance to experience life, and belong to a family. It is not the woman’s fault if she was raped, but it is not the child’s either. Although cases like this happen, only about 1% of woman get an abortion because of rape or incest. The majority of abortions that women get are because of social reasons, because the baby inconveniences the woman’s life.
Some other pro-choice individuals say that the unborn child isn’t actually a human. They seem to think that what women are aborting is an egg, that it has just been fertilized, and that the baby has not started to grow. About 16,500 abortions a year happen after the 20th week of pregnancy. At 20 weeks, a mother is halfway through her pregnancy. The baby is around 9 to 10 inches longs, and has hands, feet, a body, and a face. The baby can now hear noise, and all of the organs in his or her body are already developed. Even just at 8 weeks, the child already has fingers and toes and a brain. The baby is not just a cluster of cells.
The cost of abortion is hurting our economy. About 14% of all abortions in the United States are paid for with public funds, and almost all of those are state funds.
There are side effects to an abortion. Not just to the mother, but to the father as well. If a woman wants to get an abortion, she doesn’t need the man’s consent. It effects both parents mentally and the woman physically. Some normal side effects experienced by the woman are pain and cramping, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and bleeding. But some serious and permanent side effects are infection, damage to the cervix, perforation of the uterus, damage to other organs, and even death. Serious complications occur 1 out of every 50 late term abortions. Emotional side effects include anger, regret, guilty feelings, loneliness or isolation, insomnia or nightmares, relationship issues, suicidal thoughts, eating disorders, depression, and anxiety. That’s just to name a few. Over half of all women who get an abortion have experienced guilt, even if they thought they wouldn’t. The emotional side effects also apply to men; it’s not just the woman’s child. At least two lives will be changed by an abortion. And one will be ended.
We should not have the right to play God. We should not even have the choice of taking a life. Even if you don’t believe in a god, what about human rights? No one knows who all of those millions of children could have been. A woman’s child could be a future president, the next big movie star, someone with power who could bring peace to all of the countries, or maybe even bring a nation out of debt. Abortion is always the wrong thing to do. It is murder. Someone cannot kill their child after birth, so why should they have to right to kill their child before?
I sing.
very horribly so,
but I love to sing.
and play guitar.
like 2 days ago I uploaded music on my music myspace (www.myspace.com/callmeclichex)
and I already have 40 plays on my original song.
It’s not even a big deal,
because I know it’s all of my friends just playing it over and over,
but it’s still exciting (:
If you’re my friend on myspace,
My music myspace is on my top (yes I am on my own top) and you should add me !
just because.
I also put my cover of “Teardrops on my Guitar”
but it’s not so good.
but oh well.
I’m not a good singer,
but I’m not tone-deaf either.
sooooo yeah.
that’s it for today.
PEACE!
i smell like bleach
really bad.
it’s like, ridiculous.
i bleached my shirt and shoes last night (it didn’t work) and my shoes aren’t dry yet because of various reasons, BUT anyway, i’m bleach-scented right now and it’s making me a little off.
if you know what I’m saying (I really don’t)
I’m going to type in French now,
Bonjour(:
Je m’appelle ASHLEY. dur.
J’ai bien aime le restaurant ou nous avons dine hier.
uhh, Red Robin… C’etait super bien.
Oui?
Hier soir, la neige recouvrait la terre!!!!!!!!
J’aime la neige, forrealz.
…
J’ai aller au central commercial se soir.
VAS-Y! :D
N’aie pas peur…. LOL
okay probably everything is wrong but oh well.
i’m going to talk like a guy now,
I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE NEW VIDEO GAME THAT IS COMING OUT!
TODAY OR TOMORROW OR NEXT WEEK!
I LOVE SPORTS.
THE GAME SUCKED YESTERDAY.
WHY DO I EVEN WATCH THE LIONS?
THEY SUCK.
BUT I STILL HAVE HOPE IN THEM.
I LOVE MICHIGAN, EVEN THOUGH THEY SUCK TOO.
VIDEOGAMESVIDEOGAMESVIDEOGAMES
I LOVE TO HUNT.
IT’S SO MANLY.
TONIGHT WHEN I GET HOME I’M PLAYING XBOX LIVE AND WOW.
THE ENTIRE NIGHT.
okay i’m done talking like a man for now.
sorry if I offended you…
__________UPDATE!__________
17 days until Thanksgiving (:
God, I love eating.
I love my family too, but I think I might love eating the food they make a litttleeeeee bit morreee…
idk.
I though Olivia wasn’t here to comment my blog but now she is :D
so you better !!!!!!!
haaaahhhh jk don’t kill me.
LMAO:
i’m probably donhe with this post now.
PCE :D
LOTSA FIZZ
Most delicious candy ever.
I sing “Fergalicious” in my head every time i spell d to the e to the l-i-c-i-o-u-s.
I’m serious.
Anyway, I’m not too hyped up on coffee today because Elisa stole some of it this morning. She’s so ridiculous.
Lotsa Fizz candies make me think about those candy dots/buttons. And caramel apple suckers. And the dollar store I used to live by until 7th grade.
My cousins and I used to walk to Bob’s everyday.
It’s so weird when I drive by now,
they tore it down and built an Eye On Video.
Anyway, enough reminiscing for the day.
The All Time Low/Mayday Parade concert is in 14 DAYS (not counting today)
I’m so excited, you have NO idea.
I <3 :
&
also, the day after that I’m going to the intersection and seeing FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS!
=
ohhhh man I love them.
it will be my 4th( or 5th?) time seeing All Time Low,
and my 3rd time seeing FTSK & Mayday Parade.
IF you don’t listen to their songs,
you SHOULD.
okay I’m done now Olivia you can comment this :)
I’m hyper.
I’m soooooo hyper.
Olivia gave me a Milky Way and it was DELICIOUS!
I got caramel on my face but then I got it off.
I hate when people say caramel like “care-ah-mell”
I’m like “are you SERIOUS?! Seriously?!?!”
It’s SOOOOOO ridiculous.
My dad made me coffee today this morning and it has like espresso shots in it and I’m so hyper I think that I’m going to actually try to hit the ball in gym today.
Dome ball is like SO hard,
I’m probably the worst person in my class besides that one kid on the other team.
There are so many freshman in my gym class it’s ridiculous.
But I guess that’s what I get when I wait to take Foundations of PE my Senior year.
There are actually some cool people in that class,
but only like 3 Freshman are cool.
or like 5.
My BFFs Jessie & Katrina, Ashley, and this girl Jasmine, and then the reallyreallyreally hot one Jeremy who I can’t talk much about because I don’t want to sound like a creeper.
My other friends are Sophomores in that class.
I <3 Kristin and those 3 girls that I don’t know that well but talk to like everyday.
I’m almost done with my Western essay, but I have a feeling I’m not going to get in anyway.
I’m supposed to be doing a Tech Review on the new iPod but I don’t have it yet so I don’t know anything about it.
I’m sooo bored it’s crazy.
It’s 9:04…
My person in 5th hour/the person I used to go out to lunch with/the person I used to have the biggest crush on/Adam Timmers added me on Facebook yesterday and he’s like crazy.
I can’t even write what he wrote to me because this page is linked to my page on my GHSDAWGS site.
But, oh well.
I can’t really read red that well,
I think I might be going color blind D:
Like the kid on Little Miss Sunshine.
That was such a good movie.
I think I cried more than I laughed though.
This was probably the lamest post I will ever do, just to let all 2 of you know.
There’s no point to it at alllllllllll.
44th president
Okay, so Obama is the new elect president. Although he wasn’t exactly who I would have voted for to run the country, I’m not really going to freak out about it. There’s no doubt that things will change in the next 4 years, I’m just not entirely sure that things are all going to change for the better.
In a few years, people will see that this possibly wasn’t the best idea for our country right now.
but anyway,
I’m glad Bush’s term is almost done.
