Abortion is often times, a way many teen girls get out of early motherhood. For those who feel they are not ready for a baby, it is a way out of unhappiness. There are hundreds of people out there who stand opposed to it. In Construction exec's home target of abortion protests, many anti-abortionists stood outside a construction executive's home after learning that he was to expand a building that would house health clinics and administrative offices after it's completion in about a year.
After reading this article in the Rocky Mountain News, I was really shocked. I am firm believer that there is always a way, and that abortion is not it. However, the protest in front of Gary Meggison's (the construction executive) house, I believe, was ridiculous and uncalled for. Meggison never said he supported abortion, and the new clinic he was hired to build may well be just a job, not a statement, to him. I strongly disagree with abortion, and I think things should be changed concerning it, but the protesting of a construction executive's house, in the long-run, will solve absolutely nothing. If anti-abortionists really want to make a difference, they should talk to the men and women who run the clinics that provide abortion, not the men who build them.
The points raised in this article affect the world as much as they affect me. Hundreds, if not thousands of women a year get abortions, and millions of others don't approve of it. There are protests and meetings about it, but nothing really ever gets changed, because the dunder heads who disagree with it don't protest to abortion providers, they protest to the contractors.
Women will always get abortions, and others will always stand against them, but until we start talking to the right people, there will never be any change. Nothing, except for perhaps, the sayings on the picket signs.
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