HEALTH AND PRICES

THE INS AND OUTS OF ABORTION: PRO CHOICE, PRO LIFE, OR BOTH

Until now, there have only been two sides to the tender and tempestuous abortion issue: Pro Choice or Pro Life.

Now, don’t get upset with us, but we would like to explore a third possible alternative: Both Choices.

Here’s how the courageous idea works. The people who are Pro Life get to have a baby every time they become pregnant, and the people who are Pro Choice get to have a baby only when they want to.

If we may, we would also like to point to a significant precedent for the right to choose, not either fetal life or freedom, but both. We refer to our sacred national litany, The Declaration of Independence, in which the founding fathers, those notorious scamps, confounded the two.

Here, we have read since childhood, that we are all endowed by our “… Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Notice the juxtaposition of “life” and “liberty.”

Their united appearance is, like it or not, an adumbration of the American way.

Speaking about precedents, what will happen if the Supreme Court, now very nearly to a man men, deliberates on Roe v Wade? The overhanging question looms. What is the credibility of eleven men deciding what it’s like to be desperately pregnant? If they know by personal experience, will they please hike up their gowns and demonstrate how?

Of course, every feeling human being has the most tender concern for a fetus and regrets that an abortion should ever be necessary, but, in good conscience, we also allow a unalienable place in our sympathies for the women who, in pre-Roe v Wade days, plunked their tearful selves down on tables in dirty rooms, knowing there was a real possibility that they’d never again have a chance to enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Deciding for the merits of Both Choices would assure that no more desperate women would feel the necessity to place themselves in such a potentially deadly situation, where we might often lose the woman and the fetus.

If you are excessively incensed or pleased by this discussion, we hope you’ll forgive us or love us, but, most of all, we trust you'll just be happy that we’ve all got the freedom to advocate what now appear to be three choices.

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