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| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
| Thinking of you keeps me up all night |
I just read an article about "Jane Roe", the woman in the 1970's Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that legalized abortion. Ms. Roe (I can't recall her real name) is now asking them to overturn the decision. Huh?
Here's a comparable, if not inappropriately jovial, situation:
"Well, your honor, back then I thought it was my right, and the right of women everywhere, to have a chocolate chip cookie if I wanted or needed one. Now that time has gone by, and we've done more cookie research, I realize that chocolate chip cookies are harmful and nobody should be allowed to have one."
It's not as if I think everyone should have my opinion. Just because I am "pro-choice" doesn't mean that I'm anti-life, or that I like abortion. I think it would be great if the only babies conceived were wanted, and that they would all be born healthy and into happy, stable homes. But the things that happen when abortion is illegal are worse than what happens when they aren't. Keeping abortion legal, you have at least the chance to save the life of the woman.
What really burns my ass about the whole debate is that so many (not all) of the anti-abortion people are also against the things that could prevent it from happening, such as sex education and contraceptives. I also don't understand the militants who try to do things like blow up clinics or murder doctors who perform the procedure, or women who undergo it. I haven't heard of one pro-choice person yet who forced someone to have an abortion.
I could go on at this for a number of hours, but I'm already pissed and I'm only talking to myself, here.
Happier things:
Last week, I used my cool new cocktail shaker to make a Cosmpolitan with the mix EC sent me. It was pretty good but really, really strong. I don't think I've had vodka at all before. My tolerance must be better than I thought because I drank it while watching Jeopardy! and still got most of the questions right. The purple sugar I used around the rim of the glass was so yum. Empty calories rock.
This is actually an unhappy item - I did some aerobics for the first time in... some terrible amount of weeks on Sunday night and did very, very bad. Ow...
"I Love the 90's" part 2 started Monday night. I figure that, with the 70's, two 80's series, and now two 90's series, I will have wasted fifty hours of my life watching random VH1 trivia. I don't think any time spent watching Michael Ian Black and Hal Sparks could be called "wasting" time, though. Hee hee.
Now, I am heading off for an early lunch so I can come back afterwards and do some writing, yay.
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posted by Yvonne Hernandez @ 11:05 AM
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Name: Yvonne Hernandez
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About Me: I hate numbers, but I'll throw some at you: 24 years old, 30 purses, 100 lip glosses, 200 books, 1 new celeb crush a week, 2 much procrastination, 2 dogs, and 2 blogs where I obsess over all these things. This, is one of them.
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