Chapter 1
“A child is born with no state of mind, blind to the ways of mankind, god is smiling on you, but he’s frownin too, because only god knows what you’ll go through”
Melle Mel of GrandMaster Flash and the furious five
Many people often wonder if they should have been aborted. I unfortunately got to study abortion and its one the key opinions in our democracy. Being against abortion, being prochoice or just respecting a women’s right to choose is one of the key decisive topics in our nation. Abortion is the main topic that split and differentiate between being a liberal and being conservative, democrat or republican in this nation.
Democrats are called liberals because they have liberated views on society for the most part when it comes to what is perceived as freedoms of a modern society. Republicans are generally called conservatives because they point to their ideologies being rooted in religion and the church.
There are many instances that can warrant an abortion in past or present day society. For example, in cases of rape, molestation or not being able to make a real consensual decision when having intercourse because you were under substances can warrant and be the root cause of an abortion in modern times.
Pro-life people think that nothing warrants an abortion, or just about nothing is drastic enough for an abortion to be an option. Somehow this classic conservative view holds up even in cases of rape and molestation and not being mentally mature enough or in the right mind at the time of conception to make that decision to have intercourse and conceive a child make abortion an option to hardcore pro-lifers.
Hardcore conservatives think that what happened at the time of conception is in god’s hands and the church has methods and ways of dealing with those issues, no matter how dark they might be in nature and circumstances. This would be the majority conservative republican opinion and views on abortion as taught to me at certain academic levels.
Any other opinions on abortion that deviate away from those facts as far as the 2 main political parties are concerned which are democrat and republican just make you an independent or liberal or better yet emotionally free for any party because it breaks away from the conservative fundamental views on this major subject in our political sphere. Antiabortion beliefs make you a republican or more leaning towards that party in our political landscape if you are pro-life.
My conception is one of those what if scenarios. It was the typical teenage pregnancy from my mother’s point of view. She was 14 years old and thought that she was in love. Even indistinctive from my father’s point of view that was 22 years old at the time. It was all permissible since my parents come from a 3rd world country and this unfortunate situation is how most marriages occur.
I would consider myself a rape case and see abuse at the root of my conception. Regardless of how I feel about it, my dad worked really hard to have a family and had a factory job at the time that was supposed to be for life in this country in the Northeast Eastern time zone of the United States.
The men in my parents culture are usually substantially older and more stable in finances. The female’s on the other hand tend to be still innocent, substantially younger and of early childbearing ages. The situation at hand to me borders on some type of mental abuse because the age of legal consent has not been met by the female in the relationship or by American non-romance language standards.
Having an older mate does bring some type of financial stability to the situation and if the unavoidable occurs like pregnancy which did occur in this situation the couple is sort of in a better position for independence from there family and in a better financial position to start a household.
Being an American and just an adult I must wonder how a dude that’s a full-fledged adult even notices a girl that young for sex or even marriage? I guess marriage is okay in this twisted situation because it is a cultural rite of passage for their culture on both sides. If there is no sex involved until the marriage is final then I would not see any real issues with this situation as it was playing out.
People’s culture is their culture and it exists like that for a reason, even if its twisted and immoral to me and contradicts my innate feelings and innate spiritual belief system. For example, some people look at South Americans and the vast amount of kids they have in a nuclear household and they never know what to make of it? They never see it as a cultural defense mechanism for there average little body types versus the world.
Customs like having a large family size were made a part of their culture when they were at war against different body types and different cultures for their home land. With my own parents the feelings I reserve on there difference in age issues and them coming together under those or whatever circumstances that were their cultural social norms somehow made a marriage for them while my mother was going through trimesters with me in her belly.
I will admit growing older I seem to think that young women seem incredibly attractive and there is an innocence to them, but age is a major barrier for me. 18 and older is my standard since I have been an adult. I did not inherit that stuff from my dad or did I except the socialization to things of that nature. I always felt a certain type of way and had feelings of revocation and outright refused to try to take advantage of women that were younger than me growing up. Those feelings and sentiment carried over to adulthood as well for me.
Abortion should strictly be a woman's issue in which state and federal legislation should be used to protect that right and administer better practices to refine the process. As a man though you must wonder what it is to be in a position where you do not have any choice in the matter when your pro-choice like I am. The court defines the right to privacy in the famous Roe vs. Wade case by interpreting the 14th amendments concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action.
Or as the district court determined in the 9th amendment the reservation of rights to the people is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision on whether to terminate her pregnancy or not. Only the woman that’s faced with this choice and going through this situation can make this selection on whether or not to proceed with an abortion by federal law standards.
The interpretations of the 14th and 9th amendment boiled down to this ideology of a woman having an absolute right in terminating her pregnancy at whatever time, whatever way and for whatever reason she alone chooses so. It was my mother’s choice after all to proceed or to not keep me while she was considering an abortion even if she was a minor at the time because of American standards. My mom got to choose if I was going to be aborted or not, in the end the choice would be hers.
Was I even thought of as being good enough to be kept with the situation at hand? Compound that with whatever other thoughts she was having before she was an adult and at the moment was just a really young teenage pregnancy with mounting pressures to rid me out of her body. According to my mom the pressure was immense to have an abortion and abort me.
Perhaps she was just to immature to make a real conscious decision on the matter at hand? I have always wondered about those key choices she made at that time period in her life. The pressure for her to have an abortion right now was in question and the pressure must have been overwhelming for my mom to be dealing with at that tender age.
The 14th amendment is seen as providing protection of personal decisions relating to marriage, procreation, contraception, family relationships, childbearing, and education. Its concept of personal liberties is seen as the catalyst for an individual to live their life as they feel is relevant. Those choices are made without the government attempting to dictate one’s personal choices in life.
The courts however in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey attempts to place limits on abortion by concluding that the state can put obstacles in the way of a woman trying to abort a fetus that is nonviable. This court finds that a woman has the right to choose to terminate her pregnancy before viability like the ruling in Roe vs. Wade but does not at all prohibit the state from taking steps to ensure that the choice is educated and every option explored by explaining the philosophic, religious and social arguments against abortions.
Our system of federal government in other words gives the state the power to rightfully pursue their views for their society. In this case if the state prefers to be pro-life because of this ruling and preference they can now do everything in their power to promote their ideologies, philosophies and beliefs. They can attempt to redefine the laws if a case falls in between gray areas from the federal guidelines.
With this ruling I am grasping or my awareness is that the state cannot take away a woman’s right to an abortion on a federal level, but that’s a right that exists like the states individual...