I’m not going to pontificate any more. It’s tiring.
And I am well aware of my own flaws. Judge not lest ye be judged applies not just to God but human beings. Everybody wants the bombastic asshole to get in trouble. I get that. I have been told to get bent countless times, by I have no idea how many people. About 10% of them were on solid ground.
But I wanted to add some more territory. Some fertilizer, perhaps, depending on your viewpoint. But there needs to be more greenery in the middle, more flowers, more PEOPLE.
Another Facebook post I saw–and its conceivable this person knows about this blog, although I have not advertised it in many years and can count on one hand the number of people I’ve told about it face to face–had it that men would care a LOT more about getting women pregnant if they had to pay half the expenses for everything, including half the insurance.
This could be true. I don’t know. Here is the thing: I am ALL FOR all the ancillary negotiations.
There is room to write laws about fatherhood and paternity. There is no reason abortion restrictions cannot come with increased legal liability (in effect) for men who knock up women.
There is room to provide State money for birth control, and to mandate basic sex education by a certain age before puberty (although I think the Left is way ahead on this curve, since they seem to be trying to sexualize our young).
There is room to make girls who are in a certain demographic carry around those fake kids for a week–or at least give them incentive to.
We have a reasonably good idea who is most at risk: it is mainly the children of single mothers in poor homes, particularly if the mother is uneducated.
I have read stories about this experience: it scares the crap out of a lot of these girls because it gives them a REALISTIC idea what it is like to have a baby. I think many of them think a baby will give them the love they lack–and which the father of the child lacked–but of course babies feed on love, they don’t give it. That is not their job, even though bad parents corral them into it.
So there is tons of room for compromise. You give me this, and I will accept that. Negotiation. Middle ground. Politics in its pure form is the art of compromise.
But the Left has largely pissed away its negotiating leverage. They have been calling anyone, lately, who opposes abortion at ANY stage–even the 2nd trimester, even at BIRTH–horrible names. Most pro-lifers got tired of getting insulted and yelled at, oh, around 1995. The heartbeat bill could perhaps just as easily have been the first trimester, but the authors probably said, in their own Christian way, FUCK those people. We are doing this the way WE want, and they can go sit on a fucking pole.
This is what you get when you destroy the middle.
[I have lost opportunities personally I can’t know how many times because I have a pronounced tendency to be overbearing and rude. I know why it happens, psychodynamically. I could give you a 20 minute or 20 cent lecture on it. But nobody cares. I’m much, much better than I used to be, but there are definitely some train wrecks in my past.]
If, however, the Left would just admit BABIES ARE PEOPLE, then they could get a lot more of the stuff they WOULD want if they were actually trying to improve the world.
As I say, they really aren’t. They are trying to burn the world down.
But I wanted to put this on the table. Saying that fathers should play a larger role is not an anti-abortion argument. It is an argument for better laws, laws which could and should be discussed, analyzed, debated and–if they make sense–passed into law by sober, honest, intelligent, public spirited, and fair people. That is the theory.