Pro-choice? Or anti-responsibility?

I read this morning in an article from the Washington Post titled "White House Tries to Quell Abortion Rights Supporters' Fears About Sotomayor".

Is it just me, but why does preventing unnecessary abortion interfere with the right to choose?  Shouldn't the right to choose start and end with the choice to have sex?

Anyone who drinks and drives and gets arrested must accept the consequence, unless they don't get caught.  It doesn't matter if they "just forgot", do it on a dare, or just hoped they wouldn't get caught.  They will still have to deal with the consequence, even if they'd prefer to opt out, it isn't up to them once they've made the choice to get behind the wheel.

"Sorry officer!  I know I shouldn't be driving after getting wasted, but I drove extra slowly and put on my seatbelt, ate a bunch of breath mints and drank a gallon of coffee."

So maybe abortion is a way to avoid having to deal with the consequence of getting caught?  I don't know.

What I do know is that as an adoptive parent, I know so many who would welcome a child, even from an unwanted pregnancy, with open hearts and open arms.

Why would anyone choose to terminate even the promise of life? Are they really that scared of the potential short term pain and discomfort? What excuse could someone use to justify such a "choice"?

There are circumstances where the "choice" to have sex was diminished (rape, incest, or other types of abuse) or if there is a medical necessity.  However, if you made the choice to participate in an act where the natural outcome could be a pregnancy, how can one justify the termination of potential life as just another option to choose?

Maybe the issue should be re-branded "the easy way out", "anti-responsibility" or "women's right to avoid living with a previous choice". Isn't this the direction our whole country seems to be headed in many aspects of our society?

Everything we do involves choices and consequences, some good and some bad. I can choose to speed or yield, drink and drive or call a cab, steal or pay, yell at my kids or calmly teach them a better way (I'm still working on that one), help someone in need or ignore them.

I'd sure like to see our society raise the bar and expect a higher standard of each other. Instead, I fear the bar is being removed altogether. It's sad really.

Is it just me?

My first post

First, sorry for the long URL name. Someone else is sitting on "isitjustme" but doing nothing with it.

I find that I scratch my head regarding many aspects of life and the general attitudes of people regarding personal responsibility. The most frustrating part is that I don't know if or how I can do anything about it. Maybe I shouldn't? Who knows.

Regardless, with increasing frequency I seem to be asking myself "Is it just me?" and considering that the answer just might be "yes", I thought it might be interesting to write it down. So, here we are. If others find something interesting to comment about, by all means do it.