Friday, Jan. 11, 2002 -- 12:10 a.m.

I am pro choice. If I were to get pregnant right now I would have an abortion lickitysplit. I have very little tolerance for people who are anti-abortion. It is MY body I will do with it as I choose. I do not consider a fetus a human being and I think that My life is MUCH MORe important than that of an unborn cell-y thingy.

I liked the movie Gattaca. Although the story was good (the character played by Ethan Hawk overcomes his flawed genetic makeup to go to space), I especially liked the idea of genetically engineering people. It would be giving your child a leg up. High IQ, good eyesight, athletic ability, height, weight, all that stuff encoded to your specifications. Not a bad idea.

Why are people so concerned about animals and rainforests and such, when HUMAN BEINGS are suffering?!?! I don't understand the world sometimes. Take care of each other.

There's this man who often comes to the lottery booth, his name is Randy. He sits in a motorized wheelchair because he has no legs. He has no arms, but he has his index and third fingers and thumb coming out of his shoulders. He is an amazingly nice guy, i know that if I were in his position I would feel justified in being very very bitter. His mother took an anti-nausea pill during pregnancy. The pill is called thyramadilide or something like that. I think thousands of women took it during that time because it was used to treat morning sickness in pregnant women. It was not supposed to effect the baby. Obviously, it had devastating effects.

Through no fault of his own, Randy can never live a normal life. He will probably never get married, he will never drive a car, he will probably never have children or sex for that matter.

This world is unfair, which is one of the reasons that I believe there is no god. What kind of sick and twisted god would create a world where this great guy Randy can not walk or play a banjo (well he has no arms).

I think that if I knew, before it's birth, that my child would be handicapped I would have an abortion. Not only would it be hard on the child to go through life with downs syndrome or autism or whatever, it is also hard on the parents. Physically, emotionally, monetarily. Sometimes parents spend their entire lives taking care of a disabled child. I don't want to be one of them.

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