- Feb 24, 2006
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P&N isn't my normal hang out but I thought I would share. I'm not very close to my aunt, in fact I don't think anyone in my family is. She is still single but seems content with being single. My family is the type of family that doesn't know too much about politics or religion but when we all sit around in the living room with beers and wine we are all willing to drop a line regarding the latest news in either topic. So I definately know that a good majority of my family votes democrat while a few, such as my aunt, vote republican. She's 40 now, but over Thanksgiving I learned through other parts of my family that she had been dating someone when she was in her later 20's, accidently became pregnant, and then had an abortion.
This was kind of a shock. I feel that most of us live a life that is rarely directly affected by social political issues like this. Most of us know how we feel about a particular topic, and know how we want to be governed (or not governed) when certain situations arise. But other then a difference in taxes or something inadvertantly changing the way we live our every day lives, I think our input we give to the political arenas comes from spectators.
My point is that I would think something as detrimental as an abortion would be so gripping to someone that if they had to do it agian years later they would want their decision they made last time to be protected. I would also think that if you have something like this happen to you, you would want everyone else to be able to act in the same way you did. When things like this happen to you directly it changes your focus and the issue shifts to become a priority in your political views. At least I know that if it happened to me it would become my pivotal point.
She isn't crazy about politics, or at least there is nothing that she is strongly for or against. I would have thought that this would be a no brainer. If you heard that someone had an abortion would you not assume afterwards that they voted democrat?
Your thoughts?
This was kind of a shock. I feel that most of us live a life that is rarely directly affected by social political issues like this. Most of us know how we feel about a particular topic, and know how we want to be governed (or not governed) when certain situations arise. But other then a difference in taxes or something inadvertantly changing the way we live our every day lives, I think our input we give to the political arenas comes from spectators.
My point is that I would think something as detrimental as an abortion would be so gripping to someone that if they had to do it agian years later they would want their decision they made last time to be protected. I would also think that if you have something like this happen to you, you would want everyone else to be able to act in the same way you did. When things like this happen to you directly it changes your focus and the issue shifts to become a priority in your political views. At least I know that if it happened to me it would become my pivotal point.
She isn't crazy about politics, or at least there is nothing that she is strongly for or against. I would have thought that this would be a no brainer. If you heard that someone had an abortion would you not assume afterwards that they voted democrat?
Your thoughts?