My word, some people are sick. Really. In LO today, we started on the topic of religions, but somehow ended up discussing abortion. I can’t believe that there are people in my class who actually agree with it. Even though there are tons of obvious reasons that it is wrong, they still stick to what they think. That when the baby isn’t born yet, it’s not a real person. And that you can sommer just kill it to save yourself from extra trouble. Are they crazy? That is a living, breathing person. And having an abortion is punishing an innocent little child for something that you did. A person who did nothing wrong, but was the result of your mistake has to suffer. No freaking way.
By the time a baby is at the right age to be aborted, it already has a face and hands and fingers and legs and toes and a heart. And everything. No-one has any right to kill that little person at all. No-one. Because a baby is a gift. And a real person. With actual feelings. Like, when the mother is stressed, the child senses it and also starts getting stressed and restless. And they react differently when their mother talks to when a stranger talks.
The one girl argued that they were doing the kid a favour by aborting it, because the mother might not be able to support the baby. No freaking way. Then we might just as well kill off the entire human population, since we are all suffering in one way or another. Another girl argued that she wouldn’t be the one killing the baby, the doctors would be. But that’s like hiring someone to kill someone else and then expect that people won’t blame you for the murder.
Because that’s exactly what it is. Abortion is murder. Full stop.
Someone brought up the fact that the woman might have been raped and asked whether abortion would be acceptable then. When that came up, people starting leaning more towards abortion, but really. You would still be punishing the child for one of his parent’s mistakes. And I know that it is all very nice and well for me to say so now, but if I were raped and became pregnant, I would keep the child. Even if I had to drop out of school/university or whatever. I wouldn’t be able to have an abortion. It would haunt me. That I had been the cause of an innocent little child’s death.
The teacher, being male, said that he hopes that if something like that happens, he will be able to be enough of a man to keep the child. Because every time that he sees that child, his thoughts would be: this is the child of the man who raped my wife/sister/whatever. And he has a very good point there. And, from the woman’s point of view, it would be really hard to make sure that you don’t take out any anger you might feel towards the dude who raped you on the child. But I’d rather go to a shrink (As much as I hate that. As much as it kills me every time I go) than have an abortion. Even if it costs me my future.

Let’s change to a lighter topic:
I was freaking falling asleep in Bio today. Quite literally. I was lying with my head on one arm, closing my eyes for a minute or so at a time. Then I decided that I had better pay attention and started taking notes. And asking relatively stupid questions, if only to ensure that I stay awake. Then by the time I got to maths, I was fine again. Really interesting. Some more trig. And then in Science we arranged our portfolios. Then subs (of which I bunked most) and then LO. During which the above-mentioned argument took place.
It’s so weird. One of the things that frustrates me the most (on a practically daily basis) is doing nothing. Sitting around and wasting my time. By doing absolutely nothing. Blogging, at least, still has a positive effect. Subs periods and those periods in which we do nothing are quite fun and all, but it makes me really irratible. Without me even noticing it. I will suddenly just freak out and bang on the table or something. But whatever.

Astrid and I are going to Ruben’s house tomorrow. We were talking the other day and Astrid and I just couldn’t get over how much Ruben reminds us both of Kung Fu panda. lol. And I jokingly asked him whether he also had a secret ingredient (he also wants to be a chef… lollol) and he said yes and named some random mixture of sauces. And we somehow ended up arranging that we would sample his cooking sometime. And decided on tomorrow night. So yeah.

Oh well. Woy is online now. My dad went and freaking disconnected me last night, so I didn’t even get to blow him his kiss… So I’m gonna go now. Give him all my attention : P

Bye

~ by cravingoxygen on August 21, 2008.