Abortion

Personally, I feel like a woman should be able to get an abortion, of her own decision, if she wants to. The only time I believe anyone other than the pregnant woman should have any knowledge of the pregnancy or abortion is if
a) she is under 18 years of age, and in that case, her legal guardian should know, but have a say in the matter,
b) if she is married, in that case her husband should at least know, but legally have no say in the matter, or
c)if she should decide to tell someone on her own
Otherwise, shut up and back off. Mind you OWN damn BUSINESS! (I am a VERY strong believer in minding my own business, as well as everyone ELSE minding their own). It's one thing to have an interest in what someone is doing, and being up in their business! Like, I have an interest in my best friends life, but I don't go telling her what to do or how to think!

Some people may believe that the husband should legally have a say in the matter, some don't, but, either way, that is a MORAL issue, not a legal one. That is no place for the government to have any say (if you hadn't noticed, I'm a tad Libertarian in my political beliefs, the government CAN NOT fix everything!!!). That does NOT effect the state (aka government), that effects the couple alone. Yes, they are “legally married,” however, it is, as I said, a moral issue, not a legal one. The only time the state/government cares about marriages at all is when someone is sick, dying, dead, etc, or when it comes to money. I realize this is generalized, but it is the basic truth of the matter. Deal with the fact that the government really has no place in my personal life and CAN NOT make me do what you want me to do if I don't want to do it. I think the government already has too many laws that interfere with people's personal lives.

“The ancients generally viewed abortion as a woman's private business, in which no man had any right to interfere. As Hartley put it, 'Each woman must be free to make her own choice; no man may safely decide for her; she must give life gladly to be able to give it well.'” -“The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets” -- Barbara G. Walker

Also according to Barbara's research, the fetus was considered soulless before the fifth month of pregnancy and could be destroyed without concern of being held guilty of murder (ok, THAT I can agree with, to a point, but I STILL believe that the fetus is not conscious and aware until after it is born, but not everyone will agree with me, that much I know). That very opinion was adopted by the Catholic church's Doctrine of Passive Conception to prove the soul came from God alone in the fifth month up until the late 19th century, but, in 1869 the church revised it's opinion, leading to the contradiction that either God had misinformed them prior, or that he, himself, had decided to alter it.

In any case, the church changed the doctrine, then falsely pretends that it “always” opposed abortion. Did I NOT just say they approved it up to the fifth month!?! Okay, so now they are hypocrites and liars!?! The church was obviously not against killing the unborn, since they were burning pregnant women on the stake as witches. No one was immune. They burned and tortured the wife of a city councilor, even.

That makes me question the church's motive in changing the doctrine to further limit women in a sexist attitude. But that is another topic and will be discussed in a later post.

Most recently, legalized abortion is being opposed, Barbara G. Walker thinks possibly from ignorance of how recently it was illegalized and also, possibly, from the male belief that women must be controlled by forcing childbirth on them. But because abortion is illegal, thousands of women die, desperate to abort. The Catholic church still refuses to allow women authority over their own reproductive functions (hence their disdain for contraceptives and insistence upon only using abstinence as birth control, but we all know that it only works so long as you don't HAVE sex, so it's impossible to have sex and not get pregnant). In my opinion, this is another way to control women, since they are the only ones who CAN get pregnant.

This is just one reason I, personally, DO NOT like Christianity and Catholicism. It's my opinion and I'm not telling ANYONE that just because I see it this way, the should too. I simply want to expose the truth of the matter in the most respectful and tactful way I can. The main patriarchal religions are full of contradictions and sexist attitudes. I find it baffling that women can blindly follow it's rule when everything it preaches is against what women are, naturally.