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Woman Live-Tweets Her Abortion
27-year-old Angie Jackson has decided that it isn't inappropriate or in any way distasteful to live-tweet about her experience taking RU-486, also known as the abortion pill. According to Jackson nothing is off-limits on Twitter. "I don't feel like I'm doing anything different from what I do every day," said Jackson. "But now I have people calling me a killer; it's surreal."
Some humans have multiple distinct DNA types in their body. Ever heard of a chimera? If someone kills a chimera, can they be charged with two counts of murder?
As far as I'm concerned, if it can't exist outside of the womb, it's a parasite that requires a host body to survive. I don't care if the negative connotation of parasite insults your senses, because it doesn't change the fact that the cellular mass is incapable of surviving without the host from which it obtains nourishment. Once it can survive on its own, even if it is in an incubator requiring artificial machines, then you can call it a human being and killing it would be murder.
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There are many starving and homeless people right now who would suggest that overpopulation isn't a myth. Even if we can hypothetically sustain infinitely large populations with proper advances in technology, that doesn't change the fact that the cost of things like food, housing, education, cars, and so on increases every time more babies are born and more people start demanding those things. Imagine the utopia we would live in if the earth only sustained 25% of the population it does today.
Yeah, if third-worlders living in poverty were better educated and had more resources to things like condoms, birth control pills and abortion procedures, they probably wouldn't breed so much. However, the reality is that they aren't and they don't, and we've got to deal with it in the present. You don't have to feel like you have to fight against them. It's not a race war, nobody is being "overtaken," but the global economy as a whole is suffering from a scarcity of supply and an abundance of demand. There's no need to contribute to the problem just because we aren't the ones "causing" it.
I feel like abortion causes more good than harm. What's worse, killing an unborn fetus or allowing a child to grow up in poverty or with abusive parents, eventually leading them into alcoholism and a dead-end job mopping floors, or into a "gangster life" where they rob, kill and steal to survive?
The guys over at VHEMT have some pretty sound points that you might consider reading. I don't really advocate the idea of voluntarily wiping out the ENTIRE human race, but I get what they are saying and we need to seriously reconsider how we think about reproductive responsibility and what we want for our lives and what we want to make life like in the future.
So why did he kill all those poor, innocent babies, then?