myke@gitpyr.UUCP (Myke Reynolds) (08/31/85)
First, let me say that I'm in the rather novel possition of having been
almost aborted... (I only recently deduced this and had it confirmed, and it
is only indirectly related to events in my life.. That is
to say that the reason I was almost aborted was the same reason I was eating
dehydrated eggs for breakfast in my early childhood...)
Being in this position, I can rather clearly see both sides of te issue,
I rather like existing, miserable as my childhood was. I also see what an
unwanted child can do to the lives of two people just barely out of childhood..
My parents married, not out of love but out of social obligation.. (I'm a clearly
visable buldge in my parent's wedding pictures)
Their marriage lasted a stormy 4 years, and I doubt they have spoken in 10
years now.. They could hardly deal with their responcibility to each other,
much less the responcibility of a child.. My father, with his 1 percentile
i.q., does part time secretarial work.. My mother is remarried to some
handsome shmuck who wont even give her enough money for her blocoma (sp? its
phonetic..) operation which I may well end up paying for (I'm 17 by the way..)
Its no sob story, but their having a child at just the wrong moment probably
ploped my parents from the upper-middle class to hardly middle class at all.
Everyone considers themselves moral, yet opinions on this moral issue are
split down the center.. moralities, being the ephemeral things they are,
will always sway with the tides of humanity.. Legalization, or illegalization
of abortion should be based on its impact on sociaty.. In my own humble opinion,
more people with shittier lives is not better.. If I had been aborted, what
difference would it make to me? I would never have existed. A fetus has the
potential to be a human, but so does any given sperm and egg.. I was most
certainly not cognizant 2 months after conception.. I think most anti-abortion
advocates sketch over the realities of life in their zeal to ruin someone
elses with their misguided morality..
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Myke Reynolds
Office of Telecommunications and Networking
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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