1) Abuse. The physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse of ANYONE, particularly women and children, is never okay. I don't care if they hit you first, called you names, anything. NEVER is it okay to hit a child or a woman or anyone smaller or weaker than you are. EVER.
2) Over medication of children. Whether it be for ADD or depression, young children with emotional *abnormalities* need to be attended to more carefully, physically and mentally. An ADD or ADHD child need more one on one attention and affection, and a personalized plan of attack when concerning education and discipline. Expecting medication to make your child *normal* is just horrific and an insult to their unique personality.
3) Circumcision (of girls AND of boys). I am not okay with any form of physical alteration of a child that is not medically necessary. It takes away their autonomy and sexualizes an otherwise perfectly made part of a tiny infant, which sickens me.
4) Abortion. This one is touchy. I am okay with the abortion of a child if the mother is at risk for death. I am okay with an early abortion in cases of abuse. I am not okay with abortion as a form of birth control, and never am I okay with late term and second trimester abortion. When you have sex, you know it makes babies. Life and death is not something that should be in the realm of human control when it involves other living people.
5) The use of induction and cesarean in woman that are pregnant and have no medical reason for either. This kills mothers and children, and ruins the birth experience. It's sad that birth has become a business and not a life altering and beautiful event.
I think I agree with you on everything besides number 4 (but I will not go into that here... I will be covering that topic eventually myself)...
ReplyDeleteI'm completely against medications for children, unless it is something that is life-altering illnesses or something. I know what it is like to be heavily medicated as a child, and the side-effects never make it benefit you... and it's unnatural.
As for Inductions and Cesareans... I had both... Zoey was both, after 24 hours of them trying to make her come they basically cut her from my womb. 0_o I was lucky, she was fine (though my uterus suffered a little).
Kaylee was a cesarean, but they were concerned about her health (and she was breeched)...
I never really felt I was missing out on anything, though, until recently... I wanted to try a natural birth with both, but I was never allowed that.
4. When you have sex you know it makes babies.
ReplyDeleteBut when you have had precautionary procedures and suffered the effects of those procedures on your body to ensure you did not have more babies... and somehow a baby appears anyway... I think you have been responsible enough to choose whether to put yourself through birth again.
Pregnancy and birth really wrecked my body.
I, for one, would never choose to have a child again. I would not want to take care of another child, but I definitely would not want to go through another pregnancy.
I think it could very rationally set off a chain of events ending in my early death. I simply couldn't handle it.
That said, there is no single issue I can agree that there is such a black and white scale to it that it is always good or bad.
I do agree with your 1-3.
5.... well to each their own.
And beyond that, I have a bigger problem with Indoctrination of children (whether in religion or governmental policy such as socialism) than with abortion for sure.
Abortion ends lives that have not really had the change to get started... yes it's sad, but it frankly is better than putting an unwanted child in a home with a family unprepared to take care of it, where frankly most people will not put the kid up for adoption. They'll just be a failboat and try to raise their unwanted child anyway and do a shitty job.
On the other hand, indoctrination destroys lives of already born children and may fuck them up permanently. Sigh...
Desi.. you and your hot issues. I really love you.
I love that we can be friends even though we don't always agree on the issues.