Fundamental Truth of Life and Choice

I am an individual that believes in pro-life. Pro-life when it comes to my own personal situation. If confronted in the off chance I got pregnant, even if it meant I would surely die going full term to give birth, or the child would have any type of birth defect, I would still have that child. Not because of any moral or religious belief that all life begins at conception but because that child had meaning to my own life and a lesson for me to garner. Although I believe in pro-life for my own situation doesn’t mean I do not believe another woman has to follow by my example. Every woman has that right to decide on her own what will happen to her body. I am one of many that hold that view. Yet, today I feel we are past the point where this issue should be a debate at all.

Medical science has advanced to a point that women should never have to consider the life altering event of abortion, except in extreme conditions, as an option. We have “come a long way baby” from being able to take a pill to prevent pregnancies (if one remembered to do so daily), invasive and rudimentary I.U.D.’s, slow acting anti-spermicidal creams, along with a variety of other methods less than effective or ultimately life threatening. Yes, we have “come a long way…”.

Everyday the media, compliments of varied pharmaceutical companies, tell the women of the world we no longer have to be burdened with the process of being women. Medication now can be taken to stave off the monthly inconvenience of a woman’s natural cycle. (Long range studies of the possible consequences and effects the body experiences by disrupting the natural process are not as yet available. To me it seems only logical there are possibly certain severe ramifications when a natural bodily process is disrupted or changed.) Shots and non-invasive implants under the skin are now the most common use of birth control. Total “no brainier”. For those who protected for any one of numerous reasons or circumstances there is the morning after pill. It almost seems like all of the bases have been covered when it comes to preventing an un-planned or un-wanted pregnancy. Almost.

People are at the fore front of this issue (of course) and are keeping it alive for no other reason than simple puritanical mentalities. Where science has given us solutions to avoid the creation and destruction of viable life. The ultra-conservative and moral majority do their utmost to prevent the information or the availability of alternative options be provided to our most vulnerable and susceptible individuals. Poor, young, uneducated, and subservient. The leaders of the pro-choice and moral majority will argue that they do no such thing. Yet, like the media that has blocks of time bought by pharmaceutical companies that advertise the convenience of being the “Modern woman”, even they blanch when it comes to advertising birth control. Regulating it to time slots that are late in the evening or focusing on life styles of women that are career driven and/or morally questionable. Granted, there are networks that fly in the face of opposition and do what is needed to give woman information on choices if only by a commercial but more side with caution when it come to feeling the wrath of the strong and influential Moral Majority. The hypocrisies here astonish even the most liberal minded people.