It's My Choice!

I was recently discussing with a fellow scholar the macabre humor in the paradox that many PETA members, or Animal Rights Activists are also Pro-Choice. (That is to say, for all of you who speak the language of common sense, Pro-Abortion). It is extremely hypocritical and absolutely ridiculous that someone who will campaign for the rights of animals, that is to say, not humans, will stand up for a mother's "right" to kill her child. So I went and did some research into the topic, to find out what other people think.
I took this from http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/469667:

Question:
How come many people who support PETA seem to support abortion rights also? Isn't it hyporcritical? Not moralizing, just curious.

Top Answer out of 17 by redcatt63 wears a COAT of Diversity80 on Nov 8, 2007 at 7:27 pm Permalink:
I guess I wasn't aware of that, but, yeah, that would seem so!just like people like Bush are pro-war and pro-death penalty, but against abortion rights. It's OK to kill an adult, just not a fetus?

I couldn't help but wonder what this "redcatt" was thinking when he/she wrote this. Of course people who are pro-war and pro-death penalty would be Pro-Life. War is a tool used to protect ourselves and national interests. The death penalty is used to remove people from society who are too bad to be kept in prison. Abortion, however, is a tool used to remove an inconvenience, that is to say, a child. A unborn child cannot have committed any crime. If this was possible, then the child would be eligible to receive the death penalty. But this is impossible, as the child is unborn. While deaths that result from war or the death penalty happen (for the most part) to people who have wronged the nation, a child is the epitome of innocence. Redcatt is a fool, and quite bad at making analogies.

Here is a conversation from the belly of the beast itself: http://www.peta.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6206
One woman said:
Hey... So I have been a long time 'pro-choicer'. I had also been a long time meat eater. You can see how this develops.... I was pro choice because I was never seriously faced with making that choice. I still believe it is ones right to choose... and regardless of whether you are anti abortion or pro choice, its still a choice! You chose to be against it. Right? Anyways, I was worried that I may be pregnant, and my bf and I have always said that if an accident were to happen we'd abort. It was our agreement. I went to the doctor today and I am not in fact pregnant. However, for the past two weeks I had been going over in my head how I was going to tell him that if I was..... I was keeping the baby and going the route of adoption instead. Since becoming involved with animal rights and welfare, I could not think of one rational reason why I would murder my own unborn child, when there are parents out there that are praying every night for a baby to adopt. All while upholding no-kill ethics regarding animals. How can I value a chickens life, but not a babies? This is where my decision lies. I am no way fit to raise a child right now and I know that, but no sense to kill it. PLease dont get me wrong Im not preechinging my journey. I am happy that I'm not "with child" right now... its a relief, thats for sure. Anyways just thought I'd share.
Another peta-er replied:
While I'm not knocking you choice to give up your baby for adoption, but just so you know, there's roughly 150,000 children in foster care in North America at any given time. So it isn't like there's a shortage of children up for adoption. To me, until it could survive on it's own, side of the mother's womb, it is not a baby and not an individual human being, but a part of the mother and she should be able to do whatever she wants to her body. I'm pro-choice, and I doubt that would ever change.
So, let's dissect this man's argument. Aside from his grammatical/spelling errors, which we will forgive, his logic states that "(until a child) could survive on its own, (out)side of the mother's womb, it's not a baby and an individual human being," Well by this flawed reasoning, no child under the age of, let's say ten is a human being, and can be killed at any time. How old do you think you were when you think you gained the ability to survive on your own? Cook your own food, work a full-time job, etc? To be honest bud, I'm not even sure you could survive on your own. But hey, why not, let's go out and kill some inhuman toddlers. They're not contributing to society. Just another mouth to feed.
So, now that I've seen with my own eyes the absurdities, the nonsense, the outrageous chains of "reasoning", my opinion of mankind has forever changed. I now realize the extent to which logic has died out among our race. It greatly saddens me. I suggest, however, that if these people will not see the light for themselves, that we show it to them. Let's start a Pro-Choice To Be Cruel To Animals group. We'll meet Wednesday nights at seven, at my place.
Just kidding, of course. But do you see how ridiculous that sounds? Now apply it to mankind.

Digging Our Own Grave

Obama's Marvelous Bailout Plan and Waterslides is fast approaching the $1 trillion mark. "Where is this $1 trillion dollars coming from?", the enlightened American may ask. Should we borrow it from Bear Sterns? No, I don't think so. You see, Obama's Bodacious Bailout Bill is resembles in some ways some of the very problems that were at the root of our current financial crisis. Banks lent money to people who simply couldn't pay them back. Now, it seems the American government is on the other side of the coin. We are planning to spend a gargantuan amount of money that we just don't have.
Obama has warned that,

"This recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more
jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into
a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse,".

Thank you, Mr. President, for doing your part in sinking us deeper. I don't believe for one minute that a vote against this bill "will sink us deeper", in fact, I think it will the opposite. Congress is on the verge of passing a bill that could dig the nation, and by extension, the world, a grave. And once we're in the grave, the Obama administration will wield the shovel to bury us forever.
Now, I don't think that we are in , or will be in a situation that "we may not be able to reverse,", I just think that a bailout bill, laden with blatant pork-barrel spending, and driven by the sheer force of liberal controlled Legislature and Executive branches, will make reversing the crisis quite difficult indeed.
What do I, with all my criticisms suggest? I suggest we scrap the bailout plan completely. Then, we lower the wage of high-level government officials, such as Congressmen and Cabinet members, and, yes, even the President himself, and then use that money to give tax breaks to all Americans. This would not be enough however, on its own. Tax breaks would have to occur on the state level, and although the Federal government can't force State Legislatures to lower taxes, I suggest that an exception be made in this case. State taxes have spiraled out of control. States like New York have obscenely high taxes, and this has to be stopped. We have to put tax caps, much lower than the current tax rates in NY, and leave them there, to protect all the citizens on the State level as well. (Because it does no good for the Federal government to lower taxes while the corrupt and dysfunctional state governments raise them). Then we take this opportunity to lay off, yes, lay off and consolidate useless government jobs. Fire the people that should never have been hired in the first place, and instead, use the money that would have gone to pay them to fund government paid infrastructure and urban renewal projects. Finally, offer tax incentives to companies that build factories here in the U.S., and operate them too. Obviously, it has some rough edges, and may be incomplete, but I'm open to suggestions. And, unlike our president, when I say that, I mean it.