August 25, 2006

  • Babies!

    Well, I've finally got a few moments to myself and can update my few readers on my life.  I'm still commuting way too much for my tastes (25 mile, 40 minute drive - each way)  even though I know many people with longer commutes.  That's the main reason I don't have enough time or energy to post here much anymore.  It also doesn't look like there will be any change for quite a while.


    On a more happy note, my wife is about 10 weeks pregnant and everything seems to be going well so far (morning sickness only once so far).  We've had a sonogram that looks like a white smudge in a black bag, and it'll be a couple more months until we can find out the gender.  It's due roughly around mid-March, and luckily, my wife's new job is giving her short-term sick leave, which covers 75% of her salary while she's pregnant.  So she'll work until she wants to leave, then she'll likely take the rest of the year off.  She hasn't decided if she wants to go back to work after the summer is over, so we'll see.  We're both pretty happy about the whole thing, and I'm looking forward to keeping all of you updated.


    And since we've already been asked a couple of times...no, we're both still pro-choice.  I don't see why people seem to think that everyone who is pro-choice has either had or wants to have an abortion.  My wife and her mother has always been pro-choice even though she's had 7 children including my wife.  As Catholics, they both have never chosen anything but life for themselves and their children, but don't feel that they have any right to dictate what others can do - expecially since we don't do anything to help mothers out once the baby is born, or even with the medical bills when it is born. 


    Me on the other hand, used to be pro-life, until I saw the difference between the results of the pro-life and the pro-choice movements.  Just like most people in the world, I'm not on either extreme, but somewhere in the middle.  However, I have changed my support to the pro-choice movement without changing my beliefs because of the results of a pro-choice environment actually has reduced abortions.  Under "Abstinance only" programs, unwed pregnancies and abortions have actually increased.  Under the more liberal sex-education programs, unwed pregnancies and abortions have decreased.  Again, under Clinton, poverty and abortions decreased, under Bush, poverty and abortions have increased.  I just think we need to have as few abortions as possible, but we should get there in a way that works, not in a way that has proven to be completely ineffective. 


    If you haven't seen it, there's a "30 Days" episode on this week where a pro-choice worker volenteers to go and work and stay at a Christian pro-life maternity ward - a very good episode.  While I'm glad that there are a few pro-life people that are trying to actually help the women both before and after they're pregnant, I still don't approve of most of the tactics that were used.