I don't at all mean to get into an argument with you on this, and you make some extremely valid points. I only write to say I wish that anti-abortion folks spoke with the greater picture in mind - on your side, more than anything.
Because while I hate abortion, as you know I do, I wouldn't vote it down. What makes me miserable most is a society that doesn't prevent the need. I wish - because you know I spend all this bloody time captioning Fox - that everyone would sit down and just try to generally end the misery for everyone, rather than pile it on more. I think sometimes the extremists on the anti-abortion side simply misplace their frustration over a world where people are constantly hurt, starved, and brutalized to this one issue - because it's a rant against people they can reach, rather than ones they can't.
I'm tired and a bit tipsy, so apologies if this in any way came across as anything but thoughts on the complexity of the whole issue. It's a hard subject. And deglazing wears me out.
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Date: 2008-06-03 05:52 am (UTC)Because while I hate abortion, as you know I do, I wouldn't vote it down. What makes me miserable most is a society that doesn't prevent the need. I wish - because you know I spend all this bloody time captioning Fox - that everyone would sit down and just try to generally end the misery for everyone, rather than pile it on more. I think sometimes the extremists on the anti-abortion side simply misplace their frustration over a world where people are constantly hurt, starved, and brutalized to this one issue - because it's a rant against people they can reach, rather than ones they can't.
I'm tired and a bit tipsy, so apologies if this in any way came across as anything but thoughts on the complexity of the whole issue. It's a hard subject. And deglazing wears me out.
Love you,
V