There should be abortion.
Here's a little back story as to why I am writing this. Today in one of my classes we had a debate on whether abortion should be legal or not. The class was about split in half. What pissed me off more than ANYTHING was the people who were strongly against abortion were religious fucks.
After we were done with the debate, I raised my hand and asked whose decisions were influenced by religion. Of course, the people who were against abortion said they were. Then my teacher had the audacity to look at me and say that the teenagers she knew were religious had a stronger moral value than those who weren't. I looked right at her and told her and the whole class that maybe my morals weren't up to par with the fucking Catholic Church, but my morals and values ARE MY OWN. I came up with them on my own, through life and guidance, not from some idiotic book that says bread is a human body. I get so sick of these assholes parading around, acting higher than us because they attend a big building on Sunday morning and listen to stories about dead people that may or may not be true.
I digress, and now will list the points and counter-points of abortion.
1) It is taking a human life
This is the biggest crock of bullshit ever, and seems to be the starting point for this debate. What exactly constitutes someone being human? For a few weeks, the fetus is nothing more than a collection of cells. Sure, around 9 weeks it looks like the beginnings of a person, but is it really one? I for one say that as long as you're within the first trimester, there is nothing wrong with abortion. The later and later you get into the pregnancy though, one has to questions the reasons a woman waited so long, and if the risks outweigh the goods. But as long as that fetus is inside her, it is still not technically alive. It needs another person to live, like a parasite (oh no! He just compared people to parasites!). There will never ever be one universally accepted point as to when a person is a person. Fuck it.
2) Murder is wrong!
Is it really murder? No. This goes with the whole thing of it being a person. If it's inside the womb, it isn't murder.
3) That God damned Beethoven debate
Jesus Mother Fucking Christ. The thing is like "If you're a pregnant Mom, you have a genetic defect that can kill you and your offspring, you have 3 kids, 2 have the defect and are dieing, and one has the defect in him but will live. Do you abort the baby because he could carry the defect and spread it? Oh my God! You answered yes?!?! You just killed Beethoven!" SHUT THE HELL UP. So we lost Beethoven, a great composer. All in all, he didn't do much for us. He gave us genius music. Does that save starving people, cure sickness and stop war? No. One of those religious fucks was telling us that "We probably already killed the person who could have cured cancer!" No we didn't dickhead. We killed someone with the mental potential to cure cancer. Why don't you factor in everything else, like, uh, let's think. Family? Upbringing? Chances to go to a good college? All those things that would have enabled him to get to a point where he could cure cancer? There are thousands, if not millions with enough brains to find a cure. And some of them are working on it. This is more of a "Does fate exist?" debate. Does it? No. Unless you believe in God.
There are so many other retarded points they made. My questions was "If a girl was raped, and became pregnant, would you let her abort the child?" They vehemently said "No!" and then went on to all this adoption shit. In their never ending crusade for pseudo-justice, they're loosing the moral fibers they hold so dear. But then again, there is no one set of morals we all live by, is there? So why make it illegal? Those who are against it can not have abortions, those who want to abort a child can. Wow. I hate militant pro-life assholes.
On an end note, my teacher mentioned something about evolution. One of the religious dickheads almost screamed "Oh, you mean how we have evolved since we were created?" I looked him in the eye and said "Yeah, we're a lot less hairy than the monkeys now!" I love me.