jiminski wrote:The Death penalty is reflective of a weak and immature state.
Abortion has to be legal but it needs to be accompanied by as much education of our youngsters prior to getting to that point, as possible!
It should never, as i have witnessed it, be used as a form of contraceptive.
When i was 16, i was in a very loving, sexual relationship with a girl of the same age. We always used a condom but once, in the midst of a particularly passionate and experimental expression of our lust, it split.
The massive sense of responsibility; we faced together!
Now for me, as a 16 year old Young man, the idea of fathering a baby whilst at school was daunting to the point of being unthinkable. i was mature for my years but were we all destined to falter along the road of forgotten-potential, struggle and uncertainty?
Tiptoeing towards this with my girlfriend was delicate but we were of the same mind.
So we took the morning off school, went to the health clinic together and she was given a morning after pill to pre-empt the pregnancy.
Now this was a massive moment, I still remember the stark, grey feeling as the blood no longer had the determination to make it all the way to my adolescent brain! But we were well grounded, well educated and just about equipped to deal with the situation.
It is likely that pregnancy would not even have been the result of our sinful passion, however we knew we could not afford that chance.
Religion may dictate that we should not have been having sex before we were ready to sire children... But then some Religions also dictate that their most stringent proponents be celebrate; abstaining from the temptation of the flesh. We can see how this responsibility can lead them to a more heinous temptation of the Flesh, as they culminate from their bottled desires.
The reality is that Abstinence, although worthy, is often a very self-destructive fallacy!
So were we two embryonic travellers to weigh the cost to all and let the hand of fate decide our future; 2 barely teenage parents and a patchy fraught future?
bugger that! it is a frigging ridiculous course to take, we took the correct one!
A lack of education, coupled with teenage sex and the absence of: contraceptive; morning-after pill and, as a last resort; abortion! is why we see so many buggered, ill-equipped children begetting children!
Then what do we end up with tragedy left and right! Father figures without the ability to even guide themselves and mothers habitually crippled by an unnecessary responsibility.. not a good foundation for a child and not a good base for society.
Sex! i am all for it! Provided it is not brushed under the carpet by the sanctimonious guilt-sellers! Those who, let's face it, are not qualified to give direction upon it!
A morning after pill destroys a homo sapiens. It is therefore murder. It must therefore be illegal. Inconvient for you and your girlfriend? Perhaps. But there are many people who's existance inconvience me.I don't have a right to kill them, however.