Choice or Life? You may want to skip if you're overzealous...

Ignorance is bliss, but then you run the risk of being shot in the head and not knowing why...

I'm not trying to offend here, just stating my views.

There have been a fair few posts on being Pro-Choice, or Pro-Life, and frankly put, I'm neither.

I have respect for all living things, but I'll kill a cow and eat it. I have respect for all human life, but if a child is being brought into the world to merely survive, I think that's a bad thing.

What bugs me most, is the one dimensional view of both campaigns. As I said above, I'm not trying to offend here, just stating my views.

The Pro-Life crowd focus on the child, and not the difficulties faced by the mother in raising a child. Imagine a 15 year old, raped, with a kid that is downs syndrome. Apart from a 15 year old not being emotionally ready for motherhood, how the hell will she give the kid a life?

Conversely, the Pro-Choice crowd focus on the mother and not the child. If a foetus is a bunch of cells, then who's to say that the cells won't grow into a perfectly formed individual? And if a kid has an abnormality, does it really mean he or she can't be loved and give love in return?

My opinion, though, is that governments have enough control over us as it is, and they shouldn't have a right to that. The government should not be making laws to prevent things by force, they should be helping pregnant women decide what to do with ALL of the information at hand, and supporting that decision. Each individual case should be measured for the best of the Mother AND the Child, not either or, and I feel, even though the subject is a touchy one, people need to start thinking on those lines rather than trying make each other guilty for supporting the other side.

I'm just anti government, I guess.

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Beneath the coldest oceans of dreams
Lie the sleeping visions I have seen
Reality sank them like poorly built ships
But the ocean shares them with me

Beneath the frozen clouds of hope
Like the rainfall are my wishes
Crashing down on the world's hard ground
But kept alive in the floating ice

Beneath the icy floor of faith
In a coma lie my beliefs
Buried by the cold facts of life
Waiting for a sign to wake them

Beneath the ice around my heart
Beats your name repeatedly
Hidden where even I can barely hear
Love buried under layers of ice

The bold line was at the end of one of autumn_eyes' poems... so I borrowed it :)

Here's a challenge for those who are interested, write a poem, and I'll reply using the last line of your poem, then you reply using my last line... Your first poem doesn't have to contain the last line of this one though, unless you want to :D

Should be fun :D