Defense of ‘choice’ is just an excuse for murder
By Chris Ford
"Disturbing" is the word that came to my mind when I read Roxane
Marquez’s Jan. 12 column, "A continuing defense of reproductive
freedom."
She stated that she is responsible enough to have sex, but she
was not. If she could not handle the consequences of engaging in
sexual intercourse and the responsibilities, then she should not
have sex. Her simple solution, and her way of showing
responsibility to her body, was by having an abortion?
Ms. Marquez, that is a pretty fucked-up perception of
responsibility. People believe that if they use a plethora of birth
control that they are impregnable. When they fail, they resign all
responsibility for their actions. They say that the pill failed,
blaming it instead of the man and woman for the "fuck-up," as Ms.
Marquez’s ex so eloquently put it.
I know that many are sick of hearing this, but abortion is and
always will be murder. That is the typical "anti-choice" belief.
Cute label, "anti-choice." Well then, if those with my beliefs are
anti-choice, then pro-choice people are pro-murder, death,
slaughter, butcher, infanticide or any other synonym one cares to
use.
Ms. Marquez also compared the death of two nurses in a
Massachusetts clinic to the World Trade Center bombing. Ms.
Marquez, are you in some sort of strange psychodementia?
While it is true that the death of the two nurses and many other
deaths that have happened at clinics are tragic and never should
have happened, comparing it to a terrorist bombing was rude and
insensitive to all of the families that lost loved ones.
Ms. Marquez, you also stated you believe that the emergence of
the new House and Senate on Jan. 4 was a deliberate and calculated
plot to take away your reproductive freedom. HELLO!
Do you honestly believe that abortion is all that Republicans
think about? Do you think that Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole and Pat
Robertson are going to invade every woman in this country and rip
out their uterus? This country has bigger and more important
problems than to worry about your reproductive anxieties.
Ford is a junior biology student.