Musings on floods and reproductive rights
Dec. 29th, 2004 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsI saw a bit of footage about the tsunami today. Unlike the Hollywood images of a wall of water slamming into a town like Godzilla, this showed water just rising. No waves, no ripples at all, just rising - and rising and rising and rising, at the rate of about an inch per half-second. Slow, quiet, relentless.
I have a sudden understanding of the Genesis flood story. I know that Bob Ballard supposedly discovered "how the Biblical flood happened," but can't you also see this? Another earthquake. Another tsunami. The water washes all into the sea, and over time the story goes "the village was covered and almost all died," to "the island was covered and they all died" to "the world was covered," to "the world was covered and stayed covered for a week" "No a month!' "Forty days and forty nights..." And so on, whisper-down-the-alley style until legends are put into writing.
Closer to home, I'm ending up in a reproductive rights sidebar fight/discussion with someone in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ginmar's comments. Basically, she asked for Gin's comments on her thoughts on abortion. (Boiled down: for the life of the mother/cases of rape=okay For contraceptive failure=not okay. In those cases, the mother should bear the child and put it up for adoption or otherwise face the consequences. She later pointed out that she meant "consequences" and not "punishment" because kids aren't really all that bad.)
She got my comments instead, and you can probably imagine them. (Kefir, I did mention your brother as a rebuttal to the notion that kids are naturally good.)
I've invited her here to discuss the issue, or at least to look at the news I've found on the subject. This is the open thread for discussion on the topic.
I have a sudden understanding of the Genesis flood story. I know that Bob Ballard supposedly discovered "how the Biblical flood happened," but can't you also see this? Another earthquake. Another tsunami. The water washes all into the sea, and over time the story goes "the village was covered and almost all died," to "the island was covered and they all died" to "the world was covered," to "the world was covered and stayed covered for a week" "No a month!' "Forty days and forty nights..." And so on, whisper-down-the-alley style until legends are put into writing.
Closer to home, I'm ending up in a reproductive rights sidebar fight/discussion with someone in
ginmar's comments. Basically, she asked for Gin's comments on her thoughts on abortion. (Boiled down: for the life of the mother/cases of rape=okay For contraceptive failure=not okay. In those cases, the mother should bear the child and put it up for adoption or otherwise face the consequences. She later pointed out that she meant "consequences" and not "punishment" because kids aren't really all that bad.)She got my comments instead, and you can probably imagine them. (Kefir, I did mention your brother as a rebuttal to the notion that kids are naturally good.)
I've invited her here to discuss the issue, or at least to look at the news I've found on the subject. This is the open thread for discussion on the topic.
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People like that, IMO, are not really pro-life ...
Date: 2004-12-29 10:16 pm (UTC)As for the "put the kid up for adoption" argument, that's pretty ridiculous. There are 125,000 kids available for adoption in this country right this minute, according to AFCARs. How does increasing the surplus help at all? (And for those who argue "But people want baybees," I say "Too bad for them." If they are that desperate to be parents, they should be willing to accept an older child.)
Argh.