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21 nov 06

you ran away from the abortion question?

yeah, sure...i "ran away" from it, if those words make you scream with empowered delight. i thought i explained my failure to respond to this question, didn't i? i don't even remember what the question was, exactly -- let me find it.

Abortion: How do you feel about it? What do you think of it?

i guess my mistake was in trying to be sensitive and thoughtful. maybe the problem is that i don't have strong feelings on abortion, or complex thoughts on it, for that matter. i have trouble resolving my respect and desire for freedom and the fact that people are stupid irresponsible shits. in other words, are we supposed to let people do what they want, when they're clearly going to get themselves into trouble? of course, if they're stupid irresponsible shits, then why do we care enough about them to create these laws, that are expensive to enforce?

i don't think abortion should be illegal. if a woman doesn't want to be pregnant, then she shouldn't be stopped by authority from terminating her pregnancy. yeah, there are no easy answers, and it's difficult to know what to do -- i admit that it's not a clear-cut thing. but is it humane to a mother to force her to birth a baby she doesn't want, and is it humane to that baby to bring him into a world that doesn't want him?

did you know that i had an italian professor in community college for my "health" class, who actually got up in front of his class and advocated the rhythm method? i commend the pope for agreeing that "the world is 5,000 years old" is idiotic, but i wish he'd stop with this "every sperm is sacred" bit. it's funny the first time you see it on the flying circus, but after that it gets old.

this whole obsession with "taking a life" that we have, as part of our wonderful desert monotheistic inheritance, causes a lot of suffering.