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January 22, 2007
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
Elisabeth has challenged her readers to make a statement today about why they are pro-choice. (Well, she's challenged her pro-choice readers, anyway.) And she has a very passionate entry about privacy, women's rights, etc.
However, I'm pro-choice for the same reason that I think this is stupid. And for the same reason I am against government regulation and control of education and midwifery, and for assisted suicide. It all comes down to this: Government, this is not what you should be doing. It's none of your business. We have way too many big problems for you to be micromanaging our lives. Freedom means you're not breathing down my neck at every turn, or fostering paranoia that you might be doing so, if not now, then soon, and for the rest of my life.
You might note, by the way, that the proposed law in California would make it illegal to spank children under the age of four. Is it just me, or does anyone else get the image of a lot of sad fourth birthdays to come? "Okay, Timmy, c'mere, you're four now, you're legal, and your mother and I have four years worth of aggravation to work off ..."
Posted by lynx at January 22, 2007 10:18 AM
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Honestly, it's the kids under 4 you most need the option for - with older kids it's a lot easier to explain, give time outs, reason with. A small child, doing things that can endanger its life or siblings, you need a quick negative feedback now and then.
Posted by: Laura at January 22, 2007 11:26 AM
Hear, Hear!
You are pro-choice for the same reason that I am pro-choice. I personally have had no reason to want an abortion and I think it would be difficult for me to do that. However, I do not feel that it is the job of the government to make that determination for me or protect me from myself.
I think that the federal government might do a better job it it was confined to the duties outlined in the preamble to the constitution.
Posted by: Elisheva Levin at January 22, 2007 9:57 PM