Personal Responsibility is a "Choice"

A Women's Right to Choose, Her Choice and Her Body....

For years I have been trying to develop my theory and opinion about abortion and the "choice" argument.  I understand making abortions illegal is most likely not going to happen. But a goal of having fewer of them should be reasonable to all sides. Having less of them does not mean that women will not have a say in what happens to their bodies but perhaps it does involve having more individual responsibility in the decision making process. Here is my case.

You have a "choice" to wear a seat belt or to not wear one while in a moving car. If an accident happens and severe injuries occur, can you put on a seat belt AFTER the accident to prevent injury?   The choice to avoid more severe injury is made before the car starts moving with the act of clicking that belt. It's the law and the public is generally ok with that law as studies have shown that it does reduce and/or prevent most injuries. I know it's not the best comparison but the emphasis is on the personal responsibility to click the seat belt before moving.

You are a woman or a man (because both have personal responsibility) and are about to have sex and just like you chose to click that seat belt you have a choice to make. You or your partner can use one of many available pregnancy prevention methods. Methods that I believe are available easily at Planned Parenthood locations, Wal-Mart, Target, Walgreens, Costco, CVS and virtually every community in America and in some cases, 24 hours a day. You can chose to obtain a pregnancy prevention method before having intercourse. Or you can choose to not have sex until you obtain such prevention. Did I miss anything that personal responsibility won't cover?

I hope you see my point, that is women AND men have a choice at the time of intercourse. There is a choice to be made and my point is that personal responsibility should determine where in the timeline of events is best for the choice to be made? I say before the car accident, you should click your seat belt. In comparison, before you are "punished with a baby" as the President referred to it in speaking about his daughters, there are a number of available choices, including the choice to not have sex at that time. The "women's choice" argument is hard for me to understand unless you include ALL possible choices including the option to not have sex until pregnancy prevention method can be obtained. When the choice is made to continue on with the sex without protection and with the thought, "if something does happen I can always get an abortion" then personal responsibility is ignored but the choice was still made to do so.

That is also where my belief that abortions should be available under situations involving rape, incest  or if the life of the mother is in jeopardy. Again these are options where the woman usually has NO choice due to be in the situation she is in. The choice argument is used as a political tool and I believe that too often it is abused in that manner when common sense should prevail. The choices are there, my trouble is WHEN that choice is made, and the lack of personal responsibility to make that choice at the right time. Accepting personal responsibility or ignoring it, IS a choice. Your choice.

You may not agree with me and that's fine. This is America and you have the right to have different opinions. Both sides need to think hard about this and if there is an argument that contradicts these thoughts, I would love to hear it. I accept my personal responsibility to learn from all points of view, especially those that differ from mine.

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." 

Abraham Lincoln

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Morning Sun - "Ode to Joy"

The Pittsburg KS newspaper, The Morning Sun ran a special feature by one of their favorite local liberals Joy Leeper. You can read it here if you would like to start, go ahead I will wait...
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Ode to Joy – response to Joy Leeper

Ok, did your eyes bleed like mine? Let's start the shake down of this piece. The writer states "The Democrats are clearly stating their intention to put the middle classes first" in my view the Republicans and the Conservatives supporting them want to put ALL AMERICANS first instead of apologizing FOR them. We want Americans to succeed not by sending taxpayer money to South America for their oil industry but by keeping it here, and enable America to become less dependent on foreign oil. Not by using less, but by producing more HERE in America. This will create American jobs, American TAX revenue and cheap energy is the fuel for innovation and growth in America. Ms. Leeper also states ""Democrats are the ones who do not want to make cuts to public education, Pell Grants for college students"  One of President Obama's first acts was to remove the school voucher program in the DC schools that was very popular and enabled a community in need to get a better education for their children. She says "We must not balance the budget on the backs of teachers and minimum wage earners", what exactly is she saying? That Republicans want to actually take money from teachers and cut the budget with that money? Get serious; never have we supported that idea, regardless of what the teachers unions wildly claim. I am still surprised that democrats will use education as a stance since the state of our student’s educational results drops lower and lower in world ranking. There are GREAT teachers that are under paid and under rewarded. The unions don't seem to like the idea of being rewarded for performance.

Describing Republicans, she says "They say one thing and do another, but catch them in an unguarded moment and their true plan comes out. Their true plan is this one thing: privatize everything." Everything, really? Medicare and Social Security are BROKE. A brave Paul Ryan proposes an option to fix it and the Senate won't even debate it? Why not consider privatizing the U.S. Post Office, it is BROKE under governmental control. Constitutional limited government does not mean privatizing everything and that is NOT what the Republicans are asking for. We are just asking for the founders’ intent to be returned to this country. Radical isn't it.

The author writes "We sent new people to Congress in 2010 to work on jobs and they have spent the last 2 years doing nothing about jobs."  The House of Representatives has passed 2 budgets, many jobs bills and NONE of these have even been debated in the Democrat controlled Senate. When the President proposes a budget, it received ZERO votes. Yes that includes ZERO votes from ALL Democrats in congress. No person in congress took it seriously enough, even for a symbolic YES vote. The first 2 years of the Obama Administration they had complete control, no blocks, no opposition to speak of and their signature piece of legislation is the Obamacare bill that polls show is NOT supported by the majority of Americans.

The piece says "The way to improve the economy is to give aid to the lower incomes. If a person earning $20,000 a year gets a raise, she spends it on a new bed or washing machine, thereby helping the economy; whereas a person earning 2 million a year just socks the tax break money away" Why does she believe that helping the lower income is ok but not the rest of Americans? Is that not class warfare in a nutshell? Pretty bold of her to think that rich people also don't need a new bed, or GASP!, a new washing machine. So rich people don't spend their money, what world is she living in?  Shared costs apply but shared benefits are wrong?

So in conclusion she writes "Students, seniors, women, gays and anyone earning less than a million dollars a year, plus anyone who cares about our American family and the future of the planet."  So you make $500,000 a year, you’re ok and should vote Democrat because you won't be harmed by liberal and progressive policies? Yes you will. Students who are among the highest rate of unemployment in the nation won't be harmed? Yes you will. Women also have a higher rate of unemployment and the Presidents administration still pays their women less, won't be harmed? Yes you will.

Oh and "one more thing" as she put it. Writing "Obama was hamstrung by the” just say no” Congress the last 2 years, making it almost impossible to do anything. When we re-elect the Democrat for President, let’s give him a Democratic Congress to work with" she seems to have a memory or reality lapse. Like I mentioned above, the first 2 years of his administration he had a clear ticket to pass anything he thought would help America. The exact same policies he claims will help us now were not passed when he had total control in the House, Senate and White House. Other than spending more money and accelerating the growth of debt, what good did it do?

"This is the time that the rise of the oceans slow and the planet begins to heal" President Obama's own words not mine. Recent developments in the Middle East where an unguarded embassy was attacked and our Ambassador murdered, even the Middle East is out of control with no signs of it getting better. He refuses to meet with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but has time for fund raising and an appearance on David Letterman? This election is critical, will you make the right choice for ALL Americans? I have faith that....Yes you will!