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Roe v. Wade: the controversy continues: Part 1

Published: Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Updated: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 09:01

Pro-life or pro-choice?  It’s something I hear frequently, brought up as an argument for a dinner conversation or for Facebook discussion. I’m pro-choice simply because I don’t believe the government should control a person’s body. I don’t think they have the right to suddenly decide, “Hey miss, you can’t abort your child any more, and you’re going to have to have that cancer growing inside you for nine months.” Now I’m not saying every child is a cancer – but I damn sure would say an unwanted one that’s forced to grow inside of you is.

I think the court decision Roe v. Wade was one of the most just decisions our Supreme Court has made, and because of that decision millions of would-be parents don’t have to chance ruining their lives over a stupid mistake or raising a child in a poor environment.

I think having a child that you can’t afford to raise and give a proper childhood is more murder to you and your child than aborting the thing and preventing it from having a horrible life. In my eyes, that would be the merciful thing to do. Of course, many people  call me disgusting for that decision, saying that it’s destroying the potential of a new life. That word – potential – is used often when it comes to the life of a child. “You could have destroyed the kid who ends up curing all diseases!” Well on the fair side, the woman also could have aborted the next Adolf Hitler.

If you want to talk about potential, go ahead and get rid of birth control and condoms, for that matter. That’s also destroying the potential of a new life. For those who don’t believe in birth control and condoms and also are against abortion, I congratulate you for staying true to your cause. To do otherwise is simply hypocritical.

Because of pro-lifers, many abortion clinics in Mississippi have been shut down, and as a result, Mississippi has the highest teen birth rate in the nation. Not to mention we had that lousy abstinence education that barely made a difference. Teach kids about using condoms and birth control as well as suggesting waiting for sex, but don’t waste your money on the hope they’ll listen to you.
 

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Michael Cobb
Wed Jan 27 2010 17:12
First off, I want to make it clear that I believe the opinion section of the Student Printz is way too one sided aka over run by Left Wing students. With that being said, i feel that there should be some Right Wing writers in the opinion section to counter balance these types of articles. I feel like this would increase the amount of students who actually read the Printz while having both sides of the spectrum somewhat satisfied to at least know that their view points are being represented, as well as the opposite's. But, this particular article was offensive in more than one way. There was one line I'd like to quote that said, "... you're going to have to have that cancer growing inside you for nine months" (Greene 6). I know that this Chris Greene guy is an Atheist from one of his previous articles he wrote and said that, but to call an unborn baby, a miracle from God, a cancer.... how would this Chris Greene guy feel to know someone called him a cancer while he was in his mother's womb? i understand Greene is using cancer as a reference to an unwanted child and not a planned birth. Greene also refers to an unborn baby as a "thing" later on in the article. I don't know if he is unaware of his offensiveness or if he is purposely trying to offend the opposite viewpoints of his own, but either way, it puts a bad name to our university's school newspaper and to our university to know that the Student Printz is so one-track-minded. Greene also talks about how because of Roe v. Wade, "millions of would-be parents don't have to chance ruining their lives over a stupid mistake or raising a child in a poor environment" (Greene 6). These unborn babies are humans, not animals. We should not have the power to decide which ones live or die. When two people decide to have sex, they know the risk they are taking when they do that. If the woman becomes accidentally pregnant, then the two should have to live with their mistake and not kill a life to salvage their own. For Chris Greene: learn to not be so pessimistic. Pick some topic other than politics all the time to write about so that we can stop using your article's page as our bathroom utilities.

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