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I don't know if you know this but I am anti-abortion. I know it's a complex issue, but that doesn't mean that I have to consider the weights of each side and find them balanced, does it? I could only really consider the case of a girl or woman not wanting to take a rapist's baby to term as the mitigating fact in favour of abortion. Though I imagine, even then, that the complexity of emotions would make that a difficult decision for someone to make. What I really have issue with is the fact that some people bizarrely see it as a religious issue. Now. I was raised as a Catholic by reasonably devout Catholics. My father is too intelligent a man to believe that there's a bearded white Palestinian Jew in the sky meticulously planning our every outcome, but he still has "faith". My mother seems to hate religion as, it must be said, she hates all other things. I'm particularly fond of her description of even the slightest religious utterance as "rawmation". I've never found anything in the dictionary like that word. Neither seems to believe in any of it, but they are still Catholic and still devout, because at the end of the day, what those overly critical of religion fail to realise is that the ultimate extension of religious faith is twofold: that a body can influence the external factors that effect our lives (prayer); and that there has to be more than this (and deep down we know there is). I can live with that. And, at the end of the day, a bad atheist is as the same as a bad believer. Hitler may have been a Protestant but Mengele was an atheist, and pedophilia and priesthood are not collectively exhaustive. Anyway the fact is that Ireland is the only state in Europe where abortion is illegal, and I say good on us. It's nice to be different, especially when most Europeans are such insufferable bastards. Oh, you used to have an Empire and get a bit of sunshine do you? FUCK OFF.
Anyway, I realized today that two of my favourite songs are about abortion, there about half an hour ago. That's odd. I mean, Miley Cyrus could definitely sell a song about abortion, as, I'm sure could Rihanna, when she's not singing ones about killing men, having sex, having sex, having sex, having sex, or having sex. You'd think one of these days she might win. With sex, the winner gets a baby, you see.
So here's Casual by Here We Go Magic. It's not safe for work, but not so self-servingly, publicity-baitingly controversial that it got taken down by Youtube, despite featuring an actual unblurred man's dick [i.e. neither the man nor dick is blurred]. [Seriously, how hard did Mia try to get that video taken off youtube? Did you click the Rihanna links? They're all way worse. And it's not so aggressive as say, this Health video, while this Yuck video has nudity in it. Both are on Youtube, as is Born Free director Romain Gavras's more controversial and chilling Justice video. She baited the tabloids and they, and Youtube, fell for it.]
And here's A Baby for Pree by Neutral Milk Hotel, the most hauntingly beautiful song I've heard in a very long time. Ever? Why not.
I don't know if you know this but I am anti-abortion. I know it's a complex issue, but that doesn't mean that I have to consider the weights of each side and find them balanced, does it? I could only really consider the case of a girl or woman not wanting to take a rapist's baby to term as the mitigating fact in favour of abortion. Though I imagine, even then, that the complexity of emotions would make that a difficult decision for someone to make. What I really have issue with is the fact that some people bizarrely see it as a religious issue. Now. I was raised as a Catholic by reasonably devout Catholics. My father is too intelligent a man to believe that there's a bearded white Palestinian Jew in the sky meticulously planning our every outcome, but he still has "faith". My mother seems to hate religion as, it must be said, she hates all other things. I'm particularly fond of her description of even the slightest religious utterance as "rawmation". I've never found anything in the dictionary like that word. Neither seems to believe in any of it, but they are still Catholic and still devout, because at the end of the day, what those overly critical of religion fail to realise is that the ultimate extension of religious faith is twofold: that a body can influence the external factors that effect our lives (prayer); and that there has to be more than this (and deep down we know there is). I can live with that. And, at the end of the day, a bad atheist is as the same as a bad believer. Hitler may have been a Protestant but Mengele was an atheist, and pedophilia and priesthood are not collectively exhaustive. Anyway the fact is that Ireland is the only state in Europe where abortion is illegal, and I say good on us. It's nice to be different, especially when most Europeans are such insufferable bastards. Oh, you used to have an Empire and get a bit of sunshine do you? FUCK OFF.
Anyway, I realized today that two of my favourite songs are about abortion, there about half an hour ago. That's odd. I mean, Miley Cyrus could definitely sell a song about abortion, as, I'm sure could Rihanna, when she's not singing ones about killing men, having sex, having sex, having sex, having sex, or having sex. You'd think one of these days she might win. With sex, the winner gets a baby, you see.
So here's Casual by Here We Go Magic. It's not safe for work, but not so self-servingly, publicity-baitingly controversial that it got taken down by Youtube, despite featuring an actual unblurred man's dick [i.e. neither the man nor dick is blurred]. [Seriously, how hard did Mia try to get that video taken off youtube? Did you click the Rihanna links? They're all way worse. And it's not so aggressive as say, this Health video, while this Yuck video has nudity in it. Both are on Youtube, as is Born Free director Romain Gavras's more controversial and chilling Justice video. She baited the tabloids and they, and Youtube, fell for it.]
And here's A Baby for Pree by Neutral Milk Hotel, the most hauntingly beautiful song I've heard in a very long time. Ever? Why not.
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