No pain, no brain

I've done some thinking, and I think I finally have it figured out.

For this past school year, I was confronted in so many different ways to explain why I believe what I believe, and a few of my viewpoints even changed. I think I finally know where I stand, but I want to write it all out just to make sure.

1) Abortion is murder, whether the government says so or not. The government says a lot of things. I have the right to choose to believe what they say or to think they're completely stupid. In this case, I choose to believe that they're completely stupid. Life doesn't begin when the baby is born, folks. The two cells that are needed to create the baby in the first place are alive, aren't they? When they join together to begin this miracle of life, they're still alive, right? People have argued that beings who aren't capable of sin have no souls (i.e. animals). I've always thought this was a fuzzy argument, because brand new human beings in the womb are technically not capable of sin. Yet we still believe they have souls, right? I'm seeing a tangent here, so I'll move on to the next topic.

2) I'm still unsure about my views on contraception, although I believe that in very extreme cases, this option should not be overruled. See, if you're planning on waiting till marriage to have sex, why even bother with condoms or the pill? They're useless if you save yourself, right? And even in marriage, if you practice natural family planning (that is, if you feel you're not quite ready for children yet), these means of contraception are still useless. However, if a woman has been raped...what then? The option for this so-called "morning after" pill should be offered to her. She can choose to refuse, right? This may contradict my views on abortion...that just occured to me. I see that I still have a few things to think through.

3) This next issue is something I'm not really adamant about. I'm more apathetic than I am anything. There really shouldn't be any sort of law against gay marriage, because whether we like it or not, gays and lesbians are going to fall in love with each other and want to get married. We can't choose who we fall in love with, right? So why should we try to stop anyone?

There was more...I can't remember any more of it right now.

I'll be back.

Confusedly yours,

Miranda