Abortion and Birth Control

The following is derived from from my morning comments on Facebook.  I read so many things about Women's Rights.  I am a woman.  I have rights.  I am a human.  I have rights.  I am a Christian.  I have rights.  I am middle-aged.  I have rights.  Having rights does not mean I am entitled to having things handed to me on a silver platter at someone else's cost. 

• All this talk of government-funded birth control.......makes me think.  Why should the government pay for a what is an individual responsibility?
• It isn't medical care, it is a luxury for those who want to have sex without responsibility. 
• Who remembers China enforcing the one-child-per-family rule to curb population growth?  You know, forced abortions, punishing those who did have more than one child, government-funded birth control.......
• If this keeps up, soon we women won't have a choice over bodies, the government will have more control.....all under the guise of "liberated" women who want control of their bodies!!!
• The women of this country need to get a grip on reality.
• Fetuses are living human beings from the moment two cells join and multiply, scientific fact.  Fetuses are not tumors to be removed.  Each of us was once a fetus.  Fetuses are not constipation for which you need a laxative. They are living human beings in a growing maturing state.
• Sex is an enjoyable act (except in such cases as rape and incest).  Sex can lead to creation of a fetus.  Birth control is available if one wants to prevent conceiving.  Men AND women are responsible for creating that fetus, both parties should be responsible in whether or not they wish to create a fetus.  IF neither party is responsible and has sex without birth control in place and conceives a child/fetus, then they are responsible for it's care and welfare.  Killing a child outside the uterus is not acceptable, nor is it acceptable in utero. 
• The government has no place in my sex life or anyone else's.  Expecting the government to pay for acts I choose is morally wrong.  If one chooses to enjoy sex, that is awesome.  If one expects the government (or me, through my tax dollars) to pay for their luxury of birth control, that is morally wrong.
• Sex is the individual's choice.  Birth control is the individual's choice.  Murder is also a choice.  Murder (aka abortion of a living human being in this discussion) is not healthcare.  It destroys the health of the child.  It goes against the doctor's hypocratic oath of doing no harm. 
• If a woman does not want the government taking away her right to abortion, how can she possibly want the government to pay for her birth control.  Faulty faulty logic.
• Sadly, any woman who is convinced she has a right to abortion is seriously misguided.  Her child has a right to life the conceiving parents have given it.  The woman loses her right to chose when she has sex and conceives.  She, and the father, have a moral commitment to that child.  IF they cannot honor that commitment, give the born child to someone who desperately wants a child. 
• Killing is killing no matter how you look at it.  Treating a fetus as if it were a cancer to be removed is still killing.  When one has cancer, one seeks a doctor to kill the cancer cells.  There is an awful lot of society and media supported killing going on in this country.
• Asking the government to pay for birth control as a preventive measure to the killing is equally wrong.  Individuals need to take up responsibility for their own actions.  Women and men alike.
  

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