You are completely misunderstanding the nature of "rights." I don't benefit one bit from a woman being able to have an abortion. I'm not a female, so it does not affect my rights in any way whatsoever. Who gave you the right to tell them what to do? That is a right.
A right is something that affects your interests or allows you to dictate the interests of others. Pro-choice people aren't telling anyone what to do. They tell people to make their own decision. That's not a "right." People being allowed to control how people run their lives is a right.
Ummm...a substantial amount of STD's can be cured with treatment. The minority of STD's cannot be treated with antibotics or an assortment of other treatments (herpes, genital warts, AIDS). That analogy doesn't really work, because you do get a do over on some of those things.
A woman can just give her baby up for adoption when she has it. Isn't that a do-over? She can throw herself down the stairs and have a miscarriage and can't be prosecuted for it. She can eat foods that are more likely to cause a miscarriage. She can drink and smoke alcohol and voluntarily give her kid brain damage. And the law won't do a thing to her.
Not to mention you talk about responsibility. What do you do to be responsible? Have you adopted an unwanted child? Do you do anything to help out the millions of starving children who die every year? Do you volunteer anytime to help out children who grow up in poor neighborhoods so that they can have a better chance at life? If you aren't taking responsibility for this problem, then why are you telling other people to do so. Seriously, get off your fucking high horse. You are no better than anyone.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
