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Fetus
Frenzy
February
2, 2002
by Jeffery Commaroto
President Bush has decided it's okay for states to call
developing fetuses "unborn children". This achieves two things.
First it allows poor people to gain prenatal health care benefits.
Which is good, except most of them don't have childcare benefits
or benefits for themselves so once the fetus is out; well
they are on their own. Second it lets right-to-lifers wage
a new war on abortion with their cries of "legally they are
people, just unborn people."
If you get down to it this all makes sense. For example when
I look at a ball of yarn and some knitting needles I always
think "Well see that’s an unmade sweater right there." Same
thing with a bunch of fallen trees. I always think "Man that
is one sweet unmade house. I can almost smell the fire from
the unmade fireplace." Oh it is really hard walking around
the kitchen sometimes when you see flour and water and eggs
and think about how delicious that unmade cake is. "And it's
blueberry two, my favorite!" Actually I don't do any of those
things. I would, but it just wouldn't make sense. I don't
worry about my un-house or my un-car or the un-burglars that
might break into them. See that’s because they don't yet exist
and it would just be pretty stupid.
That's the difference between the President and me. When
he gave his state of the Union address he called for the largest
increase in military spending in twenty years and everyone
cheered at what a great thing that was. I kept saying to myself
"But wait, Donald Rumsfeld has been going around declaring
that the Pentagon cannot account for 25% of it's spending.
So there is over 2 trillion dollars that have just disappeared.
Why don’t we just audit them and get that money and more instead
of giving away money we don't have?" It was then that I realized
the president and I were two very different people.
Well actually I realized that about a year and a half ago
but it just really sunk home. See Republicans do worry about
the un-car and the un-burglars that would take it away. Not
to stereotype here but most of my Republican friends like
to point out what they see as horrible indignations like The
Death Tax. No matter how many times I tell them that The Estate
Tax (I don't like that Death Euphemism personally) wouldn't
really affect them anyway it only hurts rich people who spend
most of their lives avoiding taxes, they just cannot see my
point. Because to them they are all potential or unborn millionaires.
The prevailing model is "Why help a few people now if it will
cost me a percentage of what I might have later."
When you think like that you see enemies everywhere and the
idea of building a missile defense shield or a massive wall
around the country to prevent immigration sound sane. That
kind of Paranoia has worked really well for leaders in the
past though as well as the people they govern over. I am thinking
Richard Nixon and Joseph Stalin kinds of success!
Maybe I just don't get something here. Because I have seen
the abortion videos and the pictures and all that and I just
don't care. First of all I look at them and say, "These are
all late term abortions. I don't particularly have a problem
with restricting those unless the pregnancy endangers a women’s
life." To be honest I have known several people who have admitted
to having abortions and they were all done really early. So
I don't know how often late term abortions are really happening.
The only people who really seem to go out of their way to
tell me, all the time, are people who want to ban abortion.
So I don't really trust the numbers there.
Or perhaps I am in a fog on the issue because I am educated
and I have looked through microscopes a million times and
watched bacteria move in what appears to be a cognitive way.
So when I see a blurry flicker on a screen that moves a millimeter
I don't race out screaming, "It's alive! It's Alive" as if
something that isn't happening in nature all around us is
going on or that it has happened over six billion other times
in the last hundred and twenty years and will keep on happening
for the rest of my lifetime.
Also I just look at most people who are adamantly against
abortion and see a group who don't support welfare, affirmative
action, universal health care, school lunch programs, education
in general, subsidizing inoculations etc. and I just think
how can people who care so much about life before it's born
give such little regard for life once it is living? Maybe
if they spent a little more time fighting for the rights of
living beings. Stopping corruption and working to create a
society worth living in and where everyone is educated and
responsible, we wouldn’t have so many abortions. That’s just
me though, I like finding sources of problems and rooting
them out. Damn Liberalism!
Finally for me it all comes down to one simple fact. If these
people really wanted to stop abortions they would advocate
safe sex. Lets face it, nobody is going to stop having sex,
especially in a country as repressed as this one. This perverted
notion of preaching abstinence out of a book that has more
deviant sex and immorality then Hustler magazine page-for-page
is ludicrous. These people don't want to stop abortions. If
they did, they would use a solution that is 99.9% effective.
What they want to do is stop people from living life the way
they chose.
I don't have a lot of interest in unborn clumps of cells
or non-working religious beliefs. I just know that my un-car
needs a new waxing and I can only hope there are a lot of
unattached sexy women outside to help me wash it.
Jeffery Commaroto has authored numerous serious and satiric
articles and editorials from a liberalist perspective in addition
to authoring the free to download ebook Gadarato, music,
plays and running thinkersden.com
and commaroto.com.
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