26 1 / 2012
Our brackets are all set up for our office @heroacademy tournament! (Taken with instagram)
16 1 / 2012
Pro-life is easy if you’re privileged
Do you know that many women who are doing their pre-abortion counseling at Planned Parenthood say things like:
- “I’m not like all the other girls/women in the waiting room.”
- “I don’t believe in abortion, I think it is morally wrong.”
- “I just can’t do this right now, it will ruin my life. But I feel so guilty because I’ve been pro-life this whole time.”
The moral of the story is that it’s easier to be “pro life” when you’re not in the situation yourself. A good percentage of the women in abortion clinics find themselves in situations where they cannot afford a child, where they feel they are already undersupporting the children they have, where their birth control failed, where they risk being beaten by their parents or significant others, and struggle with the fact that they considered themselves ‘pro-life’ before coming into these circumstances.
Let’s see how you feel about abortion when a 30 year old woman comes in, battered and bruised from her drug addicted husband, screaming that she can’t have the child because she is trying to run away from her partner and needs to live on the street while she finds herself a new life without him. See how you feel while she is bawling because she doesn’t want to lose her baby, but feels that her life is at risk if she carries this man’s baby to term. Imagine how you would feel without a support system, without help.
How would you feel if you were homeless, addicted to crack and meth, struggling just to live, selling your body so that you can buy food for yourself, living in a dirty alley? How about if you were then pregnant because you were raped while sleeping out in the open? Unable to care for yourself properly, yet supposed to nurture your body and help yourself deliver a healthy child? Unable to access resources to help you get clean and forced to have a baby who is born addicted to crack that no one will want to adopt?
In your perfect privileged world, it’s easy to be against abortion. It’s easy to be blind to the true struggles that underprivileged women go through. It’s easy to assume that what you want for yourself and your family is what everyone should legally be forced to want as well.
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16 1 / 2012
Stuffs.
Randomness:
- Still vegetarian, but have failed at my attempts to become vegan. I am almost coming up on 3 months of vegetarianism at this point. The resolve remains firm.
- My fiance and I are starting a kickstart of a life change tomorrow. We’re planning to be a lot more frugal to save more money, do much more outdoors, lose weight, get healthier, and be more active overall.
- Regarding being active: we went hiking at Pulgas Ridge on Saturday and it was fun and beautiful and a lot of work! Hiking sounds much easier than it actually is.
- There is a raccoon who insists on knocking over our garbage can outside on a nightly basis. I’m afraid to go out and switch our laundry in the garage because I don’t want to be startled by it.
- I got a haircut today and it was less awesome than I wanted. The stylist (who is my regular btw) messed up my bangs and they don’t look how I want them to. Argh. At least it’s just hair and it will grow.
- I’m trying hard to think of one good thing about SF or the bay area every day, in an attempt to be more positive about the fact that we’ve moved here. I don’t know what it is, but I just can’t find myself happy here. I’m struggling with the restaurants on the peninsula, the weather, my missing of my horse and my friends I would ride with, and a serious longing for San Diego. However, I am really enjoying the nature preserves and hiking opportunities here, so I’m trying to stay positive overall.
That’s about all. Tomorrow is MLK day, which means I have a day off. I’m hoping to meal plan and grocery shop, possibly hit the gym, go to Sephora for some new beauty supplies, and clean the house. That’s an awful lot in one day, so we’ll see how it goes. ^_^
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