Life is a Bumpy Road

Austin, Texas. Travel in Texas. Life in General. "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - - -Dylan Thomas

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I am an esteemed alumni of Austin College in Sherman Texas (Class of "none of your business"). I graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts as a History Major. Subsequently, I have worked in the human services field since graduation because there aren't too many jobs out there for history majors. Except for my short incarceration in Sherman, I have always lived in Austin, Texas. That's not totally true, I was born in England and lived there approximately 18 months, but for some strange reason I don't remember living there. I travel through out Texas for my job, every week. So beware Texans, I might be coming to a town near you!! I am happily married to a wonderful guy and have 0 (zero, zilch) children. (We just forgot to have them?) I find life amusing now (I used to find it extremely depressing but that's another story). So here's to Life, which after all can be a very bumpy road!

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." -Albert Einstein

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Right to the Wrong LIfe?

We passed a Right to Lifer standing on the corner of Grover and 38th street Saturday morning, wielding a poster of an aborted fetus. Fortunately the person working at the house on that corner ran them off.

Why don't people stand on the corner with posters of abused children, crack babies, battered wives, or dead soldiers? Why don't they protest the lack of money and resources available to help families with children born with multiple handicaps? The families whose lives are devastated because the child has drained all their emotional and financial resources? Why don't they protest the lack of services or affordable day care for the unwed mothers who give birth alone and have to put their child in day care, working 12-16 hours a day to make ends meet? Or worse leaving the child at home unattended because they can't afford day care. Why don't they have a poster of the students who end up pregnant and have to drop out of high school or college? The women who are dumped by the father of their child and have no financial and emotional support?

I realize it's a hard choice for many women to make, having an abortion. It's not the right choice every time, but it should be a choice. No man should have the right to take that choice away. They don't carry the baby, they don't give birth to the baby and alot of times they don't stick around to support the baby.

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