WORRIED'S COMMENTS

Granny and I post a lot. I had set our post number to 30 days, but that made the page so long that some readers and I were having delays in pulling up the blog. Progressive Traditionalist tipped this computer- illiterate- user off, so I changed the number of posts per page and voila! the blog was accessed quickly again.

As a consequence of less posts per page, posts get archived very quickly. As each new post is added, the last one at the bottom of the page is archived because we've reached the limit per page. Some of you may have missed the comment of a reader new to this blog as the post is now archived.

For anyone who does not already know her and missed her comment and link to her blogs, let me introduce a new reader, her blogs and urls:
LaPopessa. "Make It Stop! Make It Stop!" The Rambling of a Dangerous Mind. http://somehistoricalperspective.blogspot.com
"Notable Quotables" - http://somenotablequotables.blogspot.com
Welcome, LaPopessa. I enjoyed both your blogs.

A visit to her blogs reveal she is of much the same mind as many of us, so perhaps that makes us ramblers with dangerous minds, also. I do not feel dangerous but some people might think Granny and I are a "threat"; if so, we're in good company.
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No comments on the funny animated cartoon about Bush. No one else likes political cartoons? Or have you all seen it already? I emailed it to all my non-lovers-of- Bush, and to a couple of avid Bush supporters. Have received amusing replies from the antis; am waiting for my email reserved for family and close friends to fry as responses from the pros come in. I expect the transmission lines to burn up and I may be persona non grata at the next Family Reunion. Heh! I love them most dearly but we do not agree on many subjects. Although I usually try not to distress them, now and then I just have to gig them a little.

For anyone out there that likes political cartoons (as I do), here are some sites to get them:
Thanks to Dimitri at Cafe Da for this one: www.markfiore.com
Slate: http://cartoonbox.slate.com/hottopic/?topicid=30&image=0
Tole: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_sketch.html?name=Toles&date=01192006
Click on any small image to pull up the larger one. I like the Alito and Bush one at the guillotine with the people workers rights, womens rights, etc.. waiting in line to be beheaded by Alito. I couldn't figure out a way to post it or email it to friends though. Hence the long urls. Too bad.
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Re: Granny's post about Roe vs Wade 33 year anniversary. I entered the medical field before Roe vs Wade and at that time I was anti-abortion.I observed first hand the end results of complications of the butchery of back street abortions, the ruined young lives and the deaths. Some antis exclaimed in satisfaction, "Good! Serves them right!" A shocking mindset.

At that time it was a terrible scandal to bear a child out of wedlock and was the ruination of the girl's name and that of her family. Opportunistic males seeking an "easy lay" tormented them, and often the community ostracized them. Many girls were sent away to homes for unwed mothers; others were cast out to fend for themselves by unforgiving parents - usually fathers. Pregnant young women in desperation sought to terminate the prenancy. Many found butchery, massive infections, and even death. Roe vs. Wade ended that horror.

Although society in general is no longer so cruel to out of wedlock pregnancies, hardships still abound for the unmarried mother. (And in some circles, the cruel condemnation continues). Most are quite young and bearing a child at so early an age blights the life of both mother and child. Usually poor, education halted by the necessity of supporting a baby, locked into a barely subsistence, menial job and wage, too many of these women look to a male for support and material help. How many times have you seen media reports of boyfriend/husband horribly abusing or killing a child of his sweetie? And reports of scars and xrays proving the child had suffered hellish abuse. Sometimes it is the mother who is the offender, driven to the breaking point by the stress and hardship of her life and turning on the child to vent.Often drugs are involved, contributing to neglect and abuse, as the young people turn to chemicals to ease their misery.

You read or hear about these abused or murdered children; seeing them up close and personal at the Emergency Rooms is another thing. Starved, neglected, horrifically abused, knowing the suffering they endured in their short lives, and it comes to mind, "It would have been better that they had never been born." Not all experience the worst, ofcourse, but many do. Even the more fortunate ones are often locked into grinding poverty, their lives and futures blighted. Burdened by the unending struggle to barely survive, the parent(s) have no hope of bettering themselves nor of offering a future for the child. Poverty begets poverty.

I could not bear the human suffering I saw; I became a pro-abortionist.
Another subject I avoid with the ultra-conservative Christian family members.

Antis say, "they don't have to abort; they could give it up for adoption. There's plenty of people who want to adopt." They show that they have no understanding of female psychology. Many women who have borne a baby to term are bonded with it and can't bear to give it up. Some keep it because of social or peer pressure: "what kind of woman are you? How can you just give away your own child, like it was an unwanted kitten or puppy?" So they keep it, and all too often suffer the fates as mentioned above. If the child was unwanted, it may suffere rejection and neglect, warping its mind and psyche for life. If it suffers abuse also and manages to survive, it is even more warped and damaged. How many criminals convicted of horrible crimes have a history of severe abuse and neglect as children. Society pays the price for these children.

Adoptions are desired by many couples. But it is cold, hard fact that adoption of minority children is at the bottom of the scale. Too many of these little ones end up being bounced from foster home to foster home by Child Protective Services, and dumped back into society at age 18 with no family, just a high school education (if they've graduated by 18), no support system, no job, no means of self support and independence. What do you think happens to them?

Do I believe in abortion as an alternative to birth control? Not really. Various means of birth control are too readily obtained and easily used.
And any woman who has undergone an abortion can tell you it is NOT preferable to birth control measures.It is a painful surgical procedure, and many women suffer prolonged after effects. People who advocate abstinence do not take into consideration human nature and the power of the sexual drive.Couples with good intentions sometimes get carried away in the heat of the moment, and later regrets solve nothing. The morning after pill should be approved, and is especially needed for non-consensual coitus.

I have lived long enough to see what happened in the pre-Roe vs Wade years. To see young lives blighted and ruined by unplanned pregnancies.
To see the horrors of unwanted, abused children. I believe early abortions are much preferable.

(This turned out to be a much longer post than I intended, but when I got started I couldn't stop. Worried comments too much, sometimes).