Grey Murder?

Here's my thought provoking question du jour: Is it hypocritical to support abortion ONLY in cases of rape or incest? Isn't that like saying, "A fetus is a life, abortion is murder...unless you've suffered in these specific ways. Then that fetus is NOT a life. To Hell with that fetus!" It proves that many anti-choice people actually just have a problem with women's sexuality--if they're willingly having sex, then we want to punish them by stripping them of control over their bodies. We call it murder. If the women are victims, and we don't have any way to judge them, they're no kind of sexual threat so "murder" is okay.

I know that many (maybe most?) anti-choicers don't even approve of abortion in the case of rape or incest, so obviously these points don't necessarily extend to all of them. You know, to cover my ass.

Now, this news may shock you, but I am pro-choice. I believe that abortion is alright, and should be safe and legal. And if we say "abortion is right," can we really judge the circumstances under which people get them? When liberals bristle over the implication that women have abortions for frivolous reasons by responding that most women DON'T have them for frivolous reasons*, that reinforces the idea that there are BAD reasons to get abortions. Just not wanting a baby isn't good enough. Now, for most women, the decision to get an abortion is a huge decision, one most of us hope we'll never have to make. But if the decision's not that difficult, if the woman just knows, "I don't feel like carrying a baby for 9 months, birthing it, and possibly raising it," if we believe in a woman's right to govern her own body then there is not only no excuse, but no reason to judge.

Just to lighten things up (I'm afraid I'm getting too serious on y'all), here is the crazy website that, tangentially, inspired this post:

http://www.jonathontheimpalerforpresident2008.us/Campaign_Page.html


*As Whoopi recently did on The View, not to criticize Whoopi, I'm just sayin'