TheCasperOne

A few days ago I found this poster/picture on facebook that I thought was kinda funny and ironic. So I shared it and got a couple of comments, but one just kinda stuck me a little raw, Now I don’t think this was directed at me because I hadn’t posted any comment on the picture, but I can understand how this woman could think that but still it raised my hackles a little:

“Funny how you as a privileged white male who will never have to worry about an unwanted pregnancy has such a strong opinion over this.”

I want to address this “privileged white male” line that she threw out. I grew up poor, heck for years I thought everybody mixed two sleeves of crackers and two eggs to one pound of hamburger meat to make a meatloaf. In college I got a full-time job so I could help my mother and father buy food for my family. My father made one dollar more than the state allowed for food stamps. I had an academic scholarship to college, which I lost after the first year because I didn’t have the time I needed to devote myself to school because of the job. I stayed in college for a couple more years and left and have been working sometimes crappy job and whatever I could to pay my bills.

Now lets move on to the unwanted pregnancy part. Let’s say that I and my girlfriend, wait lets make it a little better lets say she is my wife (because I have dedicated myself to wait till marriage to have sex) are intimate and she gets pregnant, I am left out of any choice she makes. If she wants to have an abortion and I want to keep the child I can’t do anything to stop her. If she decides to keep the child and I don’t want it, The government says I am obligated to pay support for that child for 18 years. When it comes to pregnancy in this country men, ALL men have NO legal standing in want a woman does “with her body” how is that privileged.

I have a strong opinion about abortion because I believe that once conception has happened, the child is not a part of a woman’s body, It’s not a cancer, tumor, or whatever niceties you want to wrap around want you want to call it. (bad analogy alert) you can put dog shit in a box and wrap it up nice and pretty with a bow, but it’s still dog shit. At 5 weeks pregnant the baby has a heart and blood is pumping, the brain is forming, and so is the arms and legs. A baby is considered viable and able to survive outside the womb at 5 months.

I believe that abortion as a means of birth control is wrong. I feel that in cases of medical danger to the mother, the parents should discuss it and decide what is best with their doctor. In the cases of rape I feel the woman should discuss things with a counselor and have some form of a waiting period.

I in no way feel that I get special privileges because I am white and male, but I feel we as Americans, all Americans enjoy privileges that no other nation in this world has known. This country is a great place to live where we all can express our opinions openly. We can pursue our happiness and where we can fail at that pursuit. Being a citizen of The United States is the best privilege in the world. Thanks for reading. Now go out and smile at someone and make their day a little better.