A Bun in the Oven

By Dominic Guzzo

PREGNANCY.:  Be careful not to be fooled out of something positive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dominic Guzzo
• Release date: Sep 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393207337

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Contents

Introduction

1  CHOICE

2  CHILDREN

3  RIGHTS

4  STARS

5  WHEN DOES HUMAN LIFE BEGIN?

6  ADOPTION

7  TWO PATHS

8  MARY

9  A CREATOR

10  BITS AND PIECES

Introduction

What a difficult subject.  A real hot potato.  Peoples’ perspectives on this matter differ significantly.  If you ask a hundred people their opinion on abortion, you could easily get a hundred different answers.  Are you right or wrong, to hold the view you have?  Perhaps there is no right or wrong in this matter.  One thing I do repeat throughout this book, is that it is a woman’s choice.

I once read that philosophy is supposed to help people think a bit deeper.  I hope this book does that.  Philo means friend, and sophy means knowledge.  I hope this book imparts some new knowledge to the reader.

Before I went to Waikato University to embark upon a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in philosophy, I never knew that philosophy had anything to do with morals.  In fact, I didn’t know much about it, except that I was interested in the big questions of life e.g. What’s it all about?  Why are we here?  But I found out philosophy was the investigation of the three E’s – Epistemology (what it is to know), Existentialism (what it is to be), and Ethics (a system of moral principles concerned with what is good for individuals and society).  The topic of this book falls within the latter E.  Abortion was a topic studied in my first year at university, in the popular course Social and Moral Philosophy.

If you become pregnant, it is easily feasible that you can be the only person who knows about it.  You privately test yourself and get a positive result.  No one else knows about it.

Perhaps you do not want to be pregnant.  In which case you may think, Dam Fuck, Dam, Fuck!!!  Yet the reality is, and correct me if I’m wrong, new life has been conceived.  Not just any life, but your offspring.  The ball is in your court; you can continue with your pregnancy, or you can have it terminated.  It must be quite a relief, to have an unwanted pregnancy ended. You could consume a herbal concoction or take RU-486, or try some other method, whether it is legal or not.

On the other hand, you may have wanted to become pregnant, and then it is a whole different story.  You will probably appreciate people saying, Congratulations.  Wanted unwanted, that’s the way it is with pregnancies.  Yet as Jacinda Ardern, the current Prime Minister of New Zealand, once said on public radio concerning pregnancy, "I know how this roles.  Some surprises, they’re surprises, but not mistakes."[1]  This leads me to my conclusion of this whole sordid matter: At the end of the day a woman has a choice, but she is given a blessing.  By blessing I mean something positive.

I could be wrong, but I think abortion on the global scale as it currently exists, will only end when women choose to continue their pregnancies.  If I were a woman, maybe I would have aborted my first 10 pregnancies.  But when you get older often your thinking changes.  Now I would simply be too curious.  One, I’d be curious to see what my offspring looks like, and two, I’d be curious to see what he or she becomes.

The law of the land can have an influence on the number of abortions in a nation.  I think an intelligent and good-hearted Government would at the very least encourage women to continue with their pregnancies, for instance for economic reasons, mental health reasons, social and moral reasons etc.  And of course, it’s good to have comedians.  How did they get here?

Society, as a generalization, loves abortion.  Yet, I think people don’t want to know about abortion, they just want it available and let’s not talk about it, end of story.  So, what is the point of writing a book that people won’t want to read?  Good question.  Maybe I can add it to the list of mistakes I’ve made in life.  You know, most people (at least 90%) would like to survive today.  Would you be in favour of dying today?  Probably not.  Yet abortion solves the problem or situation, of an unwanted pregnancy, by ending someone’s life.  Who cares?

Humanity has had slavery.  Not so common now but it used to be popular.  And it was pretty handy if you wanted a lot of work done cheaply.  I recall that song that went something like, Gonna jump down turn around pick a bale o’ cotton.  Jump down turn around pick a bale a day.  Ohhhh Lordy, pick a bale o’ cotton.  Ohhh Lordy, pick a bale a day.

Racist laws used to be quite popular.  Not so much these days.  Why shouldn’t there be segregation between black people and white people?  Perhaps because skin colour is superficial