Motherhood is not a moral obligation, it is not even a biological fact, it is a conscious choice.
On June 24, local time, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to overturn the “Roe v. Wade” case (the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion in the United States), and fully handed over the legislative power of abortion to the states, which means that women’s abortion rights No longer constitutionally protected, more than half of U.S. states will impose restrictions or prohibitions on abortion rights. In addition to the invisible political positions and religious beliefs in this game, it is a foregone conclusion that women’s reproductive rights are partially deprived.
Today I reread the “Judgment” chapter of Farage’s “Letter to an Unborn Child” in a single reading. After the accidental loss of the fetus in her womb, the unwed mother enters a fantasy trial in which the judge (a male doctor), the agent (a female doctor), the child’s father, the unwed mother’s boss, The parents of the unwed mother spoke in turn, judging her guilt or innocence from their respective positions.
At the end of the “trial”, my mother said: “We have no right to judge, and neither do you. You have no right to accuse her, and you have no right to defend her…” In the real world we live in, a judgment that should not have happened , has settled.
trial
Written by: Farage
Maybe I was dreaming, maybe it was my delirious hallucinations… Anyway, it happened and I remember it clearly. It was a spotless white room with seven benches and a cage. I was caged and they sat on a bench out of reach. On the bench in the center sits the male doctor who took care of me before my trip. On his left and right are my boss and the female doctor. Next to my boss are my friends and your father in that order. My parents were sitting over the female doctor’s side. There is no one else. The room was empty, with nothing on the walls and floor.
“April Three Weeks Two Days”
I understood immediately that there was going to be a trial here, and the defendant was me, and they were the jury. I don’t feel panicked or depressed. I watched them one by one with resignation. Your dad is sobbing softly, he covers his face with his hands like he did the day he came to see me. My parents hung their heads, seemingly overwhelmed by extreme tiredness or extreme sadness. My friend looked very sad, and the expressions of the other three were elusive. The male doctor stood up and began to read a piece of paper: “The defendant has appeared in court, and the jury will try her for the murder that she planned and caused the death of her child. This crime should be blamed on her indifference, selfishness, and lack of respect for her child. basic respect for the right to life.” Then he put down the slip of paper and announced the proceedings of the trial. Each person speaks as a witness and juror and then declares his or her vote: guilty or not guilty. The verdict will be by a majority vote, and if found guilty, the sentence will also be determined. Now, the trial begins. He spoke first. His words hit his face like a gust of cold wind:
“A child is never a bad tooth. It can’t be just pulled out and thrown into the rubbish heap with dirty cotton yarn. A child is a person, and a person’s life is from the moment of conception. A continuum that begins at the moment of death and ends at the moment of death. Some of you may disagree with the concept of a continuum. You may say that at conception and conception, it does not count as a person. What exists then is only A proliferating cell does not represent life. Or it represents no more than an innocent tree, or a worm that can be crushed. As a scientist, I should immediately point out that a tree is a He can’t become a person, even a little bug can’t. All the elements that make up a man, from his body to his personality, all the ingredients that make up a man, from his blood to his mind, are gathered in this cell . They represent so much more than a plan or a promise. If we looked at them with an insanely fine microscope, we would kneel down and believe in God. So maybe it seems absurd, I think There is a reason to use the word ‘murder’. I would also say that if human nature depends on size, and murder depends on number, we would conclude that the murder of a two-hundred-pound man Worse than the murder of a man weighing a hundred pounds. I beg my peers sitting on my right not to look at me with that look that seems amusing. I have reservations about her views; I have to comment on the way it was taken: there shouldn’t be only one woman in that cage, but two. “
He stared contemptuously and sternly at the female doctor. She smoked a cigarette and met his gaze calmly, which comforted me and gave me a little warmth. But the icy voice came out immediately:
“But we’re not here to try the death of a cell. We’re trying to try the death of a fetus that has survived at least three months. Who and what caused its death? Unknown natural factors? Someone in this cage? Or the woman in this cage? I suspected from the beginning that she was not without cause. I am very experienced in identifying criminals who kill infants, even when she puts on a mask and claims what she wants Want that child. She deceived herself first with this lie, and then deceived others. I was very impressed with her, such as her hard heart. When I congratulated her on her positive test that day, she was cold Coldly, she already knew. Besides, when I asked her to rest in bed after her abdominal pain due to uterine contractions, I will never forget her hostile response! She replied that she could not enjoy With this luxury, she could only rest for two weeks at most. I had to insist on my request, and even on fire, I begged her to take my advice. This convinced me that she had no intention of fulfilling her responsibilities as a mother at all, She’s not a responsible mother at all. Also, she keeps calling and saying she’s fine, there’s no reason to tether her to bed, she still has a job and she has to get up for work. The morning I saw her again, she Displeased face. On that day’s examination, I became more suspicious; I found out that this woman was conspiring to commit a crime. Neither anatomy nor physiology could explain the pain of her pregnancy. This type of abdominal pain could only be For psychological reasons, that is, intentionally. I questioned her. She bluntly admitted that she had a lot of anxiety. She also implied that she was sad, which I didn’t need to expose, as her sadness was clearly pregnant. Finally, I asked her if she really wanted the baby, and I told her that sometimes thought alone can kill, and she had better turn her anxiety into calm. She burst into rage, saying it was impossible, like the color of her eyes It was impossible to change the same. A few days later she came back. She went back to her normal life, and it got worse. I put her in the hospital and rested for a week with medication to control her mental state.”
“Overturn Roe v. Wade”
“Now, ladies and gentlemen, let’s talk about crime. But before that, let me say: Suppose one of you is seriously ill and needs a special medicine, and it’s close at hand. With a little effort, someone handed it to you, and you were saved. What would you think of a person who, instead of handing you the medicine, emptied it and replaced it with a bottle of poison? Insanity? Vicious heart? Can’t help? Ah no, this is too mild. And I, I call it a murderer! Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, there is no doubt that the child is sick and within reach The only medicine for her is recuperation. But this woman not only refused to use it, but instead took a dose of poison for long-distance travel. Even a very smooth pregnancy would not be able to withstand such damage. Non-stop flying, driving, on bumpy roads Bumpy, think about it, she was alone the whole time. I begged her. I explained to her that her baby was no longer just a cell proliferation, but a living fetus. I warned passed her, that would have killed it. She ruthlessly refused to accept my opinion. She signed that she would take all responsibility. She was gone. She killed it. Of course, if we were in a trial under the written law I probably can’t find her guilty. She didn’t use probes, she didn’t take any drugs, she didn’t have surgery. Under the law, this woman will be exempt from prosecution because there is no such crime. But We are a life jury, ladies and gentlemen, I tell you in the name of life that her actions are far worse than the use of probes, drugs, and abortion. Because she is hypocritical, cowardly, and does not break any laws risk.”
“I would be more than happy to find some mitigating circumstances and to forgive her appropriately. However, I have found neither mitigating circumstances nor any way to forgive her sins. Is it possible that she cannot support her children because she is in distress. Absolutely not. She admits it herself. So, could it be because she will be persecuted by society for giving birth to an illegitimate child, so she has to defend her reputation? No. The cultural group she belongs to is not only not will exclude her, but treat her as a heroine; and, in any case, she has never been bound by social norms. She has abandoned God, motherland, family, marriage, and all human beings and others in society. principles of living together in society. Her crime cannot be condoned because she committed it in the name of a certain freedom: a personal, selfish freedom that is disregarding the rights of others and their rights. I use the term ‘right’ Words. I use it to prevent anyone from suggesting euthanasia, and to block your rebuttal, as if to let this child die, she was exercising her right: to save society from raising a sickly , that is, the burden of the defective. We cannot take for granted who is defective and who is not. Homer is blind, Leopardi is a hunchback. If the Spartans had thrown them off the rock, if Humans today must be more pitiful if their mothers knocked them out. I do not agree with the theory that an Olympic champion is worth more than a lame poet. As for the protection of an Olympic champion or a lame poet The sacrifice made by the embryo, I want to remind you, whether we like it or not, it is through this sacrifice that human beings can reproduce. My verdict is guilty!”
His final roar nearly knocked me out. I closed my eyes so I didn’t see the female doctor standing up to speak. When I looked up, she was already talking:
“My colleagues forgot to add: For every Homer born, there is also a Hitler , and every conception is an interweaving of the possible challenges of excellence and evil. I do not know that this child will become a holy Joan of Arc is still Hitler: when it died, it was only an unknown possibility. Yet I know for sure that this woman was a real person who should never be destroyed. Between the unknown possibility and the real existence, I choose the latter. My colleague seems to have a cult of life to the point of obsession. But his cult is for the unborn. He does not dedicate it to those who are already alive. Just a rhetorical debate. Even his ‘a child is not a rotten tooth’ is just a rhetoric. I’m sure my comrades have fought in wars, shot and killed people. But He had forgotten then that a twenty-year-old is neither a child nor a rotten tooth. I don’t know of any more heinous form of infanticide than war . War is mass infanticide delayed by twenty years. . and he still accepts it in the name of much fanaticism, but never applies his theory of the continuum to it. Even as a scientist, I disdain what he calls a continuum. Otherwise, whenever One egg dies without being fertilized, and every time 200 million sperm fails to reach and pierce the egg membrane, I have to mourn it. Worse, even if the egg cell is fertilized, considering that only one sperm pierces the egg membrane And let 199,999,999 sperm die in defeat, and I must also mourn: they are also God’s creations, they are also alive, and they contain the things that will make up a person. All the elements. Hasn’t my colleague ever seen them under a microscope? Has he never seen them swimming around like a swarm of tadpoles wagging their tails? Hasn’t he ever seen them eagerly, towards the ring Fighting tenaciously in the transparent zone, banging the head to death, knowing that failure means death? What a tragic sight! My peers turned a blind eye to this and seemed to be very unkind to their own sex. I have no intention of continuing This is a simple sarcasm, but since he values life so much, how can he stand by while watching billions of sperm die? Is this a death sentence or a crime? Obviously, this is a crime. He should also stand in That cage. If he doesn’t stand over right away, it shows he’s lying to us all, showing that his sanctimonious views are out of the question, because he’s not arguing that the problem is not to get more people born, but to minimize the The misfortune of those who already exist?”
“Nevertheless, I’m prepared to ignore my peer’s suggestion that I’m an accomplice. The most he can charge me with is a misjudgment; but not even a life jury can hold me guilty for misjudgment. And it’s totally It’s a different matter. It’s just a judgment, and I don’t regret it at all. Pregnancy is not nature’s punishment for a momentary pleasure. It’s a miracle, just as green trees and swimming fish are natural gifts. You can’t ask a woman to lie flat on her bed like a paralyzed man for months if it doesn’t come right. In other words, she can’t be asked to give up her energy, her personality, her freedom. You’ve had this experience with men who enjoy that kind of stimulation more . Is this a requirement? Apparently my colleague doesn’t think that women have the same right as men to decide what to do with their bodies. He clearly thinks that men are bees that can fly among flowers and women are just for reproduction Reproductive tools for offspring. Many of us in the industry hold this view: Gynecologists like fat, docile, unfree mares. But we’re not here to judge doctors. We want Judging a woman who was charged with intentional murder with a mind, not a machine. I have concrete evidence to deny the charge. The day I told her that the fetus was normal, I saw her With a sigh of relief, the stone in my heart dropped. And when I found out that the fetus was dead, I saw her grief-stricken. I was talking about the fetus, not the child: science requires me to distinguish between the two. We know that the fetus has only A child can only be called a child when it is still alive after being separated from the mother, and that moment does not appear until the ninth month. Even in special cases, it is in the seventh month. Even if we admit that it is no longer a fetus , is already a child, and the charge is still unconvincing. My dear fellow, what this woman desires is not the death of her child, but her own life. Unfortunately, in some cases, our To live is to die for others, and to live to live, we have to die. We fight back against those who shoot us, legally called self-defense. If this woman unconsciously wants her child to die, she also In self-defense. Therefore, she is innocent.”
“Overturn Roe v. Wade”
Then your father stood up, and now he stopped crying. But just as he was about to open his mouth to speak, his chin trembled, and tears gushed out again. So, he covered his face with his hands again and fell down on the seat. “Aren’t you going to speak?” the male doctor asked irritably. Your father shook his head gently, as if he was not speaking. “But you can’t abstain from voting!” insisted the male doctor. Your father cried even more. “Please give your verdict!” Your father blew his nose and said nothing. “Guilty or not?” your father sighed and muttered, “Guilty.”
At this point, a terrible thing happened: my friend turned around and spat in his face. As he sat there wiping his face pale, she cried, “Coward! Hypocritical coward! Didn’t you call just to get her to knock it out? You’ve been hiding like a deserter for two months! You won’t go and see her until I beg you. That’s what you do, isn’t it? You’re afraid and you leave us behind, and you come back only as a father. Except This nominal father, you have done nothing at all! Have you survived the ridiculously big belly? Have you experienced the pain of childbirth, the torture of parenting? Fatherhood is like a bowl of carefully cooked soup for you Put it on the table like an ironed shirt is put on the bed for you. If you get married, you won’t do anything but give your child a last name; if you manage to slip away, even this You can also get rid of them. Women have to take all the responsibility, all the pain, all the insults. If she slept with you, you call her a bitch. There is no male equivalent in the dictionary, if you make a new one it will Seen as a misnomer. For thousands of years you imposed your words, your precepts, your oppression on us. For thousands of years you played with our flesh and refused to give us anything. Thousands Over the years you have forced us to be silent, and you have imposed upon us the hard labor of mothers. You want every woman to be a mother. You demand that every woman treat you like a mother, even if she is your daughter. You say We don’t have your developed muscles, but we squeeze our labor, and even let us shine your shoes. You say we don’t have your brains, but you exploit our intellect, and even let us manage what you bring home. Salary. You are children who never grow up, and even when you are old, you are still children, and your fragile, lazy habits teach you that you always need to be fed, washed, served, reminded, comforted, and protected. I despise you. I despise myself for leaving Don’t open you, despise yourself for not yelling at you more often: We’re tired of being your mothers! We’re tired of the word mother! You sanctify this title only to serve your own interests and selfishness.”
“I should have spat on you too, doctor! You only see a uterus and two ovaries in a woman, never her brain. You see a pregnant woman and think: ‘She had a good time, and then Come to me. ‘Have you never had a good time, doctor? Have you never forgotten your cult of life? You defend it so brilliantly at the cellular level that one might infer, you Be jealous of what your peers call the miracle of motherhood. But no, I doubt it. That miracle would be a sacrifice for you. You can’t face it as a man. We’re not here To put one woman on trial, doctor, we are putting all women on trial, so I have the right to fight back. I want you to remember one thing, doctor: motherhood is not a moral obligation, it even counts Must not be a biological fact, it is a conscious choice. This woman made a conscious choice and she did not intend to kill anyone. It was you who attempted to kill her by denying her the use of your own Intellectual rights, doctor. So you should be the one standing in the cage, not for refusing to rescue hundreds of millions of unconscious sperm, but for conspiracy to kill a woman. All in all, the conclusion is clear, the defendant is innocent. ”
“What Happened to Kevin”
Then my boss stood up with a fake embarrassment. He said: “He didn’t know what to say because he felt like an outsider on this jury. The others have a professional or emotional connection to the defendant because of the child, who is only her employer. So he could only be relieved that the truth had come to light. Despite his best efforts to be magnanimous, he always believed that pregnancy constituted some kind of hindrance. Perhaps worse, he spent a fortune on it, a catastrophe. Consider the sum of money that was paid to her, according to an absurd and unpopular law, even during the months when she was unable to work. That kid is so smart, smarter than this motherfucker. More importantly, its demise preserves the company’s reputation. What would the public think if they saw a company employee carrying a child before they got married? He admitted without shame that if the woman accepted, he would fund her to abort the untimely fetus. But he’s not just a businessman, he’s also a man. The first two jurors, of course, he was referring to the two male jurors, inspired him and made him think again. The logic and morality of the doctor and the grief of the child’s father moved him. After thinking about it, he involuntarily took the side of the former’s reason and the latter’s grief. A child should belong equally to his father and mother: once a crime is committed, it is a double criminality, because in addition to taking the life of a child, it also destroys the life of a grown man. Of course, it is necessary to determine whether or not a crime has occurred. However, is there any doubt about it? With the testimony of the doctor, is there any other more important evidence needed? Doctors overemphasize the prevailing selfishness. He, the woman’s employer, could reveal the well-documented motives and reasons: the defendant was afraid that the trip might be assigned to another colleague who was competing with her, so she jumped out of bed and set off, ignoring what she was pregnant with. The safety of life, but also alone. Let her accomplice come and spit, let her come and insult him. He considers the defendant guilty.
My eyes found my parents. I beg them silently, they are my last hope for salvation. They answered with dejection, looking exhausted, much older than when the trial began. They bowed their heads, as if their necks were powerless to support the weight of their heads. Their bodies shuddered, as if the chills were bone-chilling. They all radiated pathos, separated from the others, united in the same despair. They held each other’s hands tightly, supporting each other. They held hands and asked for permission to sit and speak. After the request was granted, I saw what they were discussing. I guess it’s a discussion about who speaks first. Finally, my father spoke first. He said: “I suffered a double grief. First to learn that the child was born, then to learn that it no longer exists. I hope there will be no third grief: seeing my daughter convicted. I don’t Know how it all happened. No one of you can know, because no one can get into someone else’s heart. But this is my daughter, and to a father, his child is innocent, forever!” , my mother spoke. She said: “She is my little girl and will always be my little girl. My little girl will not do anything bad. When she wrote to me that she wanted to have a baby, I wrote back: ‘If you have Decided, that means it’s right.’ If she wrote that she didn’t want children, I’d answer her accordingly. We have no right to judge, and neither do you. You have no right to accuse her, or for her Defend, because none of you got into her head and heart. All of you testimonies are meaningless. There is only one witness here who can tell what happened. This witness, the child, but he can’t…”
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