"...visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation."
Genesis 34:7b
Abortion is illegal in Kenya. It is morally unacceptable by most (if not all, though I stand to be corrected) acknowledged religions worldwide. Even the so called backward and primitive African traditional customs deign the murder of the unborn. Of course, one might point out that it would have been impossible to carry out a premeditated miscarriage then... but that would force me to wax on about the knowledge of the witchdoctor in herbology and the availability of plants and animal products that could kill a foetus if the carrier (read pregnant African mother) were so inclined, and we wouldn't need that particular diatribe now would we? So it is safe to say that basically, all major schools of thought consider abortion illegal under ALL circumstances. Moving on to the 21st century....
Girl meets boy. Girl likes boy. Girl has sex with boy. Boy GETS girl pregnant (don't you just looove how men have been vilified in this era of female empowerment?) Girl cries because really, she is but a girl, living under her parents care, not to mention roof. What does girl do? She asks herself, "What would Jesus do?" or if she is a wearer of the hijab, "What does the Quran say? Well....lets do this, we'll see what the Quran says as Girl weighs her pros and cons since the Quran is wise and abundant with information on the topic (Christians note!)
Girl: It is morally and legally wrong to terminate a human life.
Conscience (hereafter, B): Life begins at birth. And just what does the law know about raising a child?
Girl: Life begins at inception i.e. fertilization.
B: If you wanna be cerebral and anatomical about it then life begins at production of insidious sperm and willing ovum.
Quran 17:33 "You shall not kill any (Nafs) person - for GOD has made life
sacred - except in the course of justice……."
Girl: I will not be able to provide for it! I am but a child myself!
B: There's always adoption, Industrialized countries have made it easy enough to legally give away your child for abortion if you wish not to keep the bastard child.
Girl: I live in bloody Kenya! Then, I have to consider the fact that when I grow up I may want to get involved in the child's life, even want it back as my own once more.
B: Er....
Quran 17:31 "You shall not kill your children due to fear of poverty. We provide for them, as well as for you. Killing them is a gross offense"
I could go on and on with the Girl vs Boy...sorry, B also known as Conscience discussion but why take all the fun out of it while I can use juicy adjectives and vocabulary while jabbing at religion and society at the same time? Lookit, if you consider abortion as murder claiming a fertilized egg is a human life the I shall say that the use of contraception is in legal terms conspiracy to commit first degree murder since the male knowingly prevents sperm from entering a woman's intimate 'un-ventureds' to deliberately prevent a child being born. Also, every time a guy is on a ka-dry spell and slaps the monkey, that is murder. Those sperm he just deposited into whatever means he so chooses were in fact children-unborn! And in the same vein (teehee!), wet-dreamers should be put to death! By God! Let me not get started on women and their notorious monthly serial killings in the guise of menstruation! Oh, yes, all gay men should be put to death as well! Lesbians can be given time to reform. There's no point in purposefully wasting a perfectly precious and productive...
What about adoption? Isn't that just the day-taker! Nah. Statistics show that very few women who give birth choose to give up their babies - less than 3% of white unmarried women and less than 2% of black unmarried women. American statistics yes, but this is because Kenyans don't see the point of carrying out such a survey. It is but human instinct to, pardon my French, own yo shit! (c.f DaGi's note about bowel pride and such)
Let's consider a pregnant teenager. Why should she be forced to give birth to a mistake and care for it while she may have no way to support it? I mean, she has to halt her studies, get a job, take on emotional and psychological burdens she was not ready for yet just because of society's skewed sense of morality??! I mean come on! We should punish this kid and her kid just because she tripped and fell over an ejaculating penis??! Punish her if you must but really! Who are we to do God's good work of punishing 3 generations just because she had unsafe sex as a teenager? The child will undoubtedly suffer hate from her mother (even if not direct), poverty, and shall be raised by an immature person. It too shall be very effed and thus produce an effed offspring. This 3rd generation is the decisive one. They mostly grow up a bit less messed up than their parents so they might either raise good kids or only slightly fucked up kids. It's simple logic really, not rocket actuarial science.
Another school of thought (Reaganomics) suggests that legalized abortion reduces crime, almost dramatically. It is said that those who are duty-bound by law not to abort give birth to said effed kids who then 6 out of 10 times grow up to be the rabid hounds of crime especially in the housing projects and low income settlements. If we do legalize abortion, these prospective rapists, murderers and drug fiends will be chemically neutralized as is their fate anyway, so better sooner than 100 rapes into their miserable lives.
I think, the management of a pregnancy is up to the givers of the life. The unfortunate (or fortunate) victims of our genital destinies should not be told what to do with an unborn by religion zealots {who hold celibacy and anti-abortion arguments as if that isn't an oxymoron in itself} nor by their parents {who raised the friggin' fornicators} nor laws that were conjured in an age of intolerance. Why suffer unto teenage-parenthood and make the child pay for your mistake, all 3 minutes of it? Thus I call myself, "the conservative who sometimes goes the liberal way". You have to say it all the way, like "A Pimp Named Slickback".
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