I heard this some time ago, a kid was watching television when the i-pill ad came on. (Damn cool ad, very well done. The actors too very good. All spoken without words. Int he advertising frat, the ad deserves to win awards. But getting back to what i was saying.) The kid looked away from the television and very sagely told his mum, "you know mum i don't like this ad at all." His mum was stunned and so was i when i heard it. He continues, "This medicine can be no good. Its so selfish, its only for one person. How can it be 'I pill'." I continued to be stunned, what the kid said made total sense. The emergency contraceptive pill is for selfish people. I'm not trying to be judgmental or anything. A certain radio spot that i heard for another contraceptive used words very unwisely. I don't remember them verbatim but what it said was vaguely this, "but I don't want to get pregnant'. I don't understand how she could make the sole decision of whether or not THEY want a baby. When i hear these ads, it sounds as if getting pregnant is a bad thing like taking drugs is. We are so used to living in a cushioned world and so used to getting away with whatever wrong we do that we've forgotten that we've committed murder. Just coz, there isn't a dead body to see, or there isn't blood traced back to you, not autopsy involved, or no crime scene that what you've done is correct. Its wrong. And you know that. I think we've all in some way changed fundas. The funda is that as long as you're not caught you've done no wrong. We want to enjoy all about life with a selfish attitude towards it and then not have to shoulder wht comes with it. Why is it so difficult to understand that with power comes responsibilty. I didn't hear this in Spiderman for the first time...but i remember reading this in my Civics textbook in school. And mind you, Civics was my most hated subject.
I don't understand how, after you've killed one baby before it could breathe life from you and see through your eyes, how can you love the baby that you actually bear after very careful planning. I don't think you can love that baby selflessly, you are too busy loving yourself more.
