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Mar. 2nd, 2006 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbHello, internet.
With half an assignment done, I’m sitting at home staring at the screen, drinking ice-cream mixed with milk, vanilla essence and a touch of Baileys, and staring down a fit of the black fugues. Thus, an LJ post brought to you by the rationale: Any Work But The Work We Should Be Doing.
So, I notice you USians are getting a bit crazy, with things like an anti-abortion law with no exceptions for rape and incest turning up in South Dakota.
(A side note: in my own dear republic, although the Supreme Court ruled abortion permissible in the case of rape – at least rape of a minor – back in, oh, 1991 or so, we have something called the Irish Council of Medical Practitioners – not a legislative body - who dictate what Irish doctors will and will not do. And the only time they will perform an abortion is where there is a significant threat to the health of the mother. Thus, Patient X of the 1991 Supreme Court case, although legally permitted to have an abortion in Ireland, in fact had to go to England to procure one.)
Personally, I’m not sure how I feel about abortion. It’s something of a moral grey area, for me: I can’t not find it ethically ambiguous once implantation has occurred, and definitely morally suspect after the first three months. It’s something – like killing a grown human being – that I’d have severe personal qualms about if it wasn’t a strong case of self-preservation.*
That said, my own belief is that everyone should be free to chose which sins** they prefer to commit. I’m not sure if killing something that’s not yet quite a child is entirely worse than giving birth to a child and spending the rest of your life resenting him/her. One way you extinguish one possible life: the other way you potentially ruin two or more.
And that said, let me just say that I think this ‘no exceptions’ for rape and incest shit is seriously disturbing. That’s setting the stage for a whole hell of a lot of psychological trauma for anyone unlucky enough to end up on the wrong end of a law like that.
Seriously fucking disturbing.
*This is in fact one of the picky things that I so dislike about the Catholic Church: they value the life of the child over the life of the mother. And although I can trace that to the historical need for clear line of descent in order to facilitate the transfer of property (because of course women weren’t going to inherit), I can’t forgive it.
**No, I can’t find a different word. Blame it on my upbringing – or better yet, suggest a different one. Word, that is.
ETA: Okay, I get my facts wrong. This happens. Apparently the 'no exceptions' thing is part of a proposed law in your Utah. (Note to self: fact-check. Being mistaken might do worse than embarrass you someday.)
With half an assignment done, I’m sitting at home staring at the screen, drinking ice-cream mixed with milk, vanilla essence and a touch of Baileys, and staring down a fit of the black fugues. Thus, an LJ post brought to you by the rationale: Any Work But The Work We Should Be Doing.
So, I notice you USians are getting a bit crazy, with things like an anti-abortion law with no exceptions for rape and incest turning up in South Dakota.
(A side note: in my own dear republic, although the Supreme Court ruled abortion permissible in the case of rape – at least rape of a minor – back in, oh, 1991 or so, we have something called the Irish Council of Medical Practitioners – not a legislative body - who dictate what Irish doctors will and will not do. And the only time they will perform an abortion is where there is a significant threat to the health of the mother. Thus, Patient X of the 1991 Supreme Court case, although legally permitted to have an abortion in Ireland, in fact had to go to England to procure one.)
Personally, I’m not sure how I feel about abortion. It’s something of a moral grey area, for me: I can’t not find it ethically ambiguous once implantation has occurred, and definitely morally suspect after the first three months. It’s something – like killing a grown human being – that I’d have severe personal qualms about if it wasn’t a strong case of self-preservation.*
That said, my own belief is that everyone should be free to chose which sins** they prefer to commit. I’m not sure if killing something that’s not yet quite a child is entirely worse than giving birth to a child and spending the rest of your life resenting him/her. One way you extinguish one possible life: the other way you potentially ruin two or more.
And that said, let me just say that I think this ‘no exceptions’ for rape and incest shit is seriously disturbing. That’s setting the stage for a whole hell of a lot of psychological trauma for anyone unlucky enough to end up on the wrong end of a law like that.
Seriously fucking disturbing.
*This is in fact one of the picky things that I so dislike about the Catholic Church: they value the life of the child over the life of the mother. And although I can trace that to the historical need for clear line of descent in order to facilitate the transfer of property (because of course women weren’t going to inherit), I can’t forgive it.
**No, I can’t find a different word. Blame it on my upbringing – or better yet, suggest a different one. Word, that is.
ETA: Okay, I get my facts wrong. This happens. Apparently the 'no exceptions' thing is part of a proposed law in your Utah. (Note to self: fact-check. Being mistaken might do worse than embarrass you someday.)
