FIGHTING WORDS

Ok, here's the deal, I'm a Republican and I have made no attempt to disguise that. It's what I am and if some don't like it I don't care. I may be a Republican but I am not a hard core conservative, I'm moderate. What that means, at least to me, is that I'm not liberal or conservative, too far left or right, I'm right smack dab in the middle. I think this is a good thing because I'm able to understand were both (totally different) sides are coming from. Well, I told you that to tell you this: I was in my American Politics class and my prof decided to split us up into three groups, liberal, conservative, moderate. Well, you would figure that I would be in the moderate category...no. I was put in the conservative group and wanted to put the girl sitting next to me head through the wall. I except everyone's point of view because I understand everyone has an opinion and 9 times out of 10 it's going to be different than mine. But there is a right way to disagree with someone and a wrong way, and basically telling me I'm stupid is the WRONG way. What is the subject my teacher gave us to discuss you may wonder...abortion. Yeah, people wanted to choke each other. She asked us where we stood on abortion in several different cases, rape, incest, mother's life is endanger. Well, the conservatives and the liberals didn't really have that hard of time because everything the conservatives said "no" to the liberals said "yes" to. Shocker there. The conservatives were against any type of abortion in any case. I personally believe that it should not be used as a form of birth control. I don't think a girl should be able to be promiscuous or just stupid and not use protection and the be able to say, "I'm going to the clinic." It should work that way, she chose to make the child she should have to carry it even if she just gives it up for adoption. But in the case of rape, and a lot of times in incest, the girl had no choice in the matter it happens by force or coercion. I believe that since the woman had no choice in creating the child she should be able to have a choice not to carry it. Because it is something she did not plan to do. She is going to spend 9 months of her life carrying her rapist's or a family member's baby. The emotional turmoil that would put her through is probably unbearable. The girl sitting next to me in the class said, "It's not the baby's fault, the baby has rights too." Ok, well just because you believe that doesn't mean you should be able to force that belief on someone else. It's easy to say things like, "She should carry that baby." When it isn't you. The mother should not have to forfeit her rights to a child she never intended on carrying in the first place. Plus you can't just think of these victims as grown women, what if the girl in question is 12 years old. Are you going to tell that child that she has to carry a baby after she went through the trauma of being raped, or incest? Are you going to make her go through the pain, and the stigma of being pregnant at such a young age? Also, lets say there's a chance (because there is) someone engaged in consentual incest, if the baby was conceived from incest there is a good chance the child would have major things wrong with it. Just some things to consider.