#2 30 Day Writing Challenge- Something I feel strongly about (stance on abortion)

The second topic for the 30 day writing challenge is "Something you feel strongly about".

There are so many things I feel strongly about, but for whatever reason "abortion" keeps popping into my head, which is weird, because I tend to not get too involved in abortion debates. But I will write about it nevertheless.

My stance on abortion is pro-choice.

My main and pretty much only argument is that if you are against abortion- do not get an abortion, don't prevent others from getting an abortion just because you think it is wrong. Just because your opinion or religious belief's stance is against abortion, doesn't mean others' is. So just practice your beliefs, yourself. Don't force your beliefs onto others.

To me, it's like trying to force people to celebrate christmas, or to like pizza. Some people just don't celebrate christmas. Some people just don't like pizza.

If you like pizza, you aren't going to force others to eat pizza, especially if they don't like pizza. So don't push your pro-life arguments onto people.

It's the same with gay marriage. If you are not gay, don't get married to someone of the same sex. But how does 2 other people of the same sex getting married, effect you? So just stay out of it.

I do understand the argument that it is "murder" in a sense. I don't want to get into the argument of the "unborn fetus" too much, but honestly, even though I never want to murder someone, I don't think it is that bad. That fetus, even if it was a little baby at 5 months old, has no original thoughts... or at least thoughts it can remember. In my books, that is what defines a person.

End of story.

Polygamy

I am not a polygamist but I think polygamy should be legalized.

I understand within some cultures polygamy has been the epicentre for sexual assaults, children being treated unfairly and children being ignored, but let's disregard that for the simple argument that not all people are like that.

Some cultures having polyandry, polygamy or polygyny are justified. Cultures that aren't as developed, or in the past, having multiple husbands or multiple wives is helpful to the household. Having multiple wives is good to have many children to help with work and populate. Having multiple husbands is good so they can go out and earn money and do hard labour to earn more money and have a rich family.

But I am not even going to linger on that point either. I'm talking about Western cultures that are highly developed.

Let's say your next door neighbour had 5 wives. What is wrong with that? A man treats his 5 wives nicely, most of the wives have 1 or 2 kids. What is wrong there? Everyone is respected, everyone raises the children.

What is actually wrong with it?

The average person will just say "It's not normal".
Neither was gay marriage, but guess what? We have that.

Some people may say "Well now there isn't enough women for everyone!"
Homosexual relations can also do that to the population. But guess what? We have that.

Politically speaking some people may say that new divorce and child custody laws will have to be developed.
Lawmakers should just lawmake. Easy. It's your job. This is why we have a supreme court. New laws have to come with societal change.

Of course if a polygamist family has things like sexual abuse, mistreated children or spouses, that should just be dealt with like any other goddam family. Taken to court, children taken away, counselling, divorce. It's not rocket science. It's an easy sociological and law concept. If one wife wants to divorce her husband or one husband wants to divorce his wife: let them divorce. Child custody should be shared between the two parents of the children. The other spouses shouldn't get a "time share" of the child, except when the child is with the husband or wife where the other spouses are.

I don't understand why people find polygamy wrong. It's like some gross concept to most people. Homosexuality was like this too.

Actually part of the reason why people find polygamy wrong is because it seems unnatural and because there are so many TV shows and TV segments about polygamist families that went wrong because of abuse within the household. Not all families are like this. Can I also mention that even "normal" families have abuse in them? I've seen these TV segments, children from these homes come out and say that their home was abusive and their parents were unsupportive and there were too many kids. I do understand how one instance like this is abusive, but not all homes like this are the same.

I don't even think polygamy has to be about kids. If a man wants to have relations with 2 or 3 women and be legally married and live in the same house with all of them, and they are agreeable, than it should be fine.

Simple as that.

End of story.

Any problem with polygamy that comes up is easily solvable but society is just to dumb and lazy to solve it.

Legalize polygamy.

That is all.