So what's wrong with us?

I'm in class... you don't have to say it, I know I should be paying attention but I've just got get this out there I just watched this documentary (side note: why am I the nerdy girl who loves documentaries?) So this documentary was loosely about the experiences of women during the Ceausescu Era in Romania.

**If you don't know the was the period in which Nicolae Ceausescu was the president of Romania. He was the a communist dictator he ran with the worst of them he was Hitler with a twist of Stalin, the only reason we Americans don't talk about him in history class is because he reserved his violence and abuse for his own people and we're just a touch self involved. Which is what this is about.**

During his "Presidency" Ceausescu made some pretty heartless decrees, but one in particular has captured my attention he outlawed abortion. Methods of birth control were already scarce in the country, were also outlawed. So what's a couple to do? They couldn't prevent pregnancy and they couldn't end an unwanted pregnancy and mind you these people were already living in poverty without having another child to feed. Women were subjected to invasions of personal privacy they were forced into submitting to examinations so that the government could be sure that they were pregnant, and if they weren't then they were subjected to questioning about why they weren't pregnant. Ceausescu was rationing milk and at the same time forcing women to have more babies and spread the milk thinner. So what did these women do? They risked losing their lives to get back alley abortions even if they survived they risked getting caught and being jailed and dying there. The point of me telling you this is that the Romanian women were violated. And it started with outlawing abortion but passing that one law was like turning on a facet and leaving it running eventually the basin is going to fill and the water is going to spill onto the floor and before you know it your house is flooded. You can't just pass laws and not enforce them right?

At this point you may wonder where I'm going with this so enough expository information. What is wrong with this country? What is wrong us as a people group? Why has no one here bothered to take a look at what happens when someone makes a laws that invades the privacy and/or infringes upon the rights of others? All you have to do is look into the not so distant pass(this all happened in the 80's in Romania) of our neighbors to see what can happen when someone(or some people) think they can tell other people what to do with their bodies. So why the H. E. double hockeysticks do we even debate making abortion illegal? Why do we waste our breath? Like I said you can't make a law and not enforce it... if its illegal, how do you make sure people aren't doing it? You check and how do you check? Well then how far is too far... random checks? I mean honestly any mandatory "checking" is violating the woman being checked... why should someone else get to decide what are we going to revert back to the days when women didn't have any rights? Okae then like I said what is wrong with us?

I just mean that sometimes we argue things that make no sense. Yes the circumstances in Romania and the circumstances here in the US are different. I get that in this country is a religiously charged issue but really I just want someone to point out how this debate is productive. God doesn't love Romanian women less because they had abortions and God won't love American women less if they do.

I just keep thinking how far is too far and who gets to decide, and I mean it with everything not just abortion... I just used that to make my point. Everything... marriage, gay marriage, invading other countries playing "peace keeper", outlawing this or that, discriminating against these people or those people, building walls at our border, pumping crack into the hood(blame it on Reagan), overlooking schools in the ghetto, labeling them as "ghetto" and paying our sports stars more than our teachers. How far is too far? What's wrong with us?