Lauren+Unfamiliar

Lauren Unfamiliar Genre Lauren Hofferbert Mr. Hartman October 27, 2011 A Manifesto

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A constant battle for life has been going on since the dawn of ages, when it comes to the specific standpoint of the category of abortion it is a continuing controversy. However this is a manifesto talking about my two cents about this topic. However this topic for this manifesto has me rocking back and forth. I still am unable to decide if this is the best choice for topics. Right now, I feel as if there are those two different sides on my shoulders, the one saying “do it” and the one saying “don’t” pulling me in opposite directions. Perhaps, the only reason I don’t want to choose this topic is because I’m unsure of how I will be judged for what I’m going to say in my manifesto. However, the other side is telling me to do it because a few years ago I had a strong opinion for Pro Life. But now that I’ve grown up and seen both sides and seen the girls so young as 14 getting pregnant, I feel as though my opinion on the matter has changed. So, the fact that I have been on both sides of this issue support my credibility because I have been on both sides and people reading this can respect that. ======

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I understand that there are many people that are all for Pro Life and what not. As a blogger writes in HubPages, “ Murder is a crime therefore abortion is a crime. If abortion is a crime, then it must be punished as such” (Cranklicious). For me if I read this when I was younger I would have agreed completely because back when I was in middle school and lower high school I was pro life too. I mean a baby is a baby; why on earth would you want to kill something or someone that could grow up to be the next president, or the person to cure cancer. Also, when I was younger I had the immature mentality that if a girl should go and get pregnant she needs to pay for that responsibility and take care of her mistake. Yet as I grew older this changed and I my thoughts shifted from the girl to the baby its self. If a girl gets pregnant and she is to young, then this puts not only her at risk for something medically, emotionally, physically or even socially to go wrong but it also puts the baby in danger too. Also, if this girl is unable to care fully and responsibility for this baby then this baby has no choice but to be brought up a world full of hardship and not properly taken care of. And that is something that no one should ever have to go through. ======

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Pro Life’ers might respond to keeping the baby and saying that there are always foster homes that these children can be placed in but “by 2050, if we continue to reproduce at the current rate, the planet will have between 8 billion and 10 billion people. This is a 50 percent increase” (Wooldridge). This also leads me to the same point as I had earlier, foster homes are not wonderful places to grow up in or life, so why would you willing want to place this child in this environment. Also, responding to what Wooldridge said that 8-10 billion people is a population that the world is unable to sustain, so to keep adding to this crisis would be a mistake. ======

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So instead of going out there and adding to this problem people should be able to have the choice to do what they want with their body. If they want to live with the guilt of having aborted a baby then that is something that they will have to live with. So the government should not be able to tell us what we should be doing with out bodies and not doing. We are only humans and we make mistakes, let us make these mistakes and be free, because is American the land of freedom. To put these restrictions on a person would lead to the question of our freedom as citizens, as a government and as a country. ======