Look at me before I die

Pro life? Pro choice? Every year there seems to be some issue regarding abortion, the legality of it, who should be able to have one, when and where, etc. There always seems to be a battle being fought on the Abortion front lawn.
Now there is a movement to make it mandatory, let me repeat MANDATORY for a woman seeking to abort her pregnancy to VIEW the ultrasound. WTF?!? I'm so tired of pro life-ers imposing their moral views on the bodies (literally) of others. Making it mandatory for a woman to see the ultrasound right before she has her procedure is clearly a guerrilla warfare tactic. It is a covert practice used to change the mind of a pregnant woman that pro-life clinics and people have been using for years. Look, making the decision to abort a pregnancy is hard enough, no one needs someone sticking a screen in their face saying "look it's your baby! Do you still want to kill it?"
Having an ultrasound is necessary before the procedure is done to ensure that there is a pregnancy and to estimate how far along the pregnancy is. Some states will only allow a woman to have an abortion in the first trimester, some allow up until the second trimester so it's necessary to "see" the pregnancy. However, the screen is always faced toward the technician or staff member who is preforming the ultrasound. The pregnant woman can "request" to see it if she like, but it is never imposed on her. So I understand the reason for an initial ultrasound, but don't go making it mandatory for me to see it.
If we're gonna make women look at the ultrasound picture to sway them one way then we should also have them look at something to sway them the other way. It's only fair, level out the playing field. If you show me an ultrasound photo, then also show me on an itemized bill of the money I'll be spending to support a child, the amount of lost work hours I'll spend at home with a sick child, the loss of social activities, independence, and the right to be selfish. Let me make an informed decision.
What also puts my panties in a bunch is the fact that there are people out there whose sole purpose is to convince women to not have abortions. Sure with your sneaky tactics you have convinced me to not have an abortion, you have won the small battle, but what about the overall war? What I mean is this, if you're gonna talk to me about religion and God, how what I am doing is murder, and all the other moral weapons you can pull out of your arsenal to convince me to not have an abortion fine........but you also need to take part responsibility for the child you just "saved". You do your job, change my mind, and at the end of the day you go home, ready to fight another fight. Meanwhile, I'm pregnant and unhappy, because I didn't want to have a baby in the first place (and don't give me that "well you should have had protected sex" line. That doesn't help the current situation okay!). When the baby is born, where are you? When I can't work because I can't afford daycare, where are you? When I want to beat the crap out of my child, where are you? When I curse my child for being born, decide to neglect him/her, do drugs in front of them, let adults take advantage of them, abuse them mentally, physically, and emotionally, where the phuck are you? Didn't you want this to happen? Didn't you "win" something by manipulating me into changing my mind to have this baby? You too, should be responsible for this baby. I mean after all, it's because of you that this baby is born. Your job isn't just over when I change my mind. You should be the third parent in this equation because frankly it took all three of us to make this child. Of course daddy's sperm fertilized mommy's egg, but you, stranger, placed your seeds of manipulation in this equation to guarantee this birth. So now baby is all of our responsibilities.
No one sees it that way though. It's all about saving a life. What if the life you saved ended up being the next Hitler? Well you wouldn't be so proud of your accomplishments then huh? All I am saying is leave people's lives alone, unless you plan on being apart of it.
Now there are many women who will say that they are grateful that their minds were changed by someone. That's all "Gee double O Dee, Good" But there are just as many women out there who feel the exact opposite. The only judge, jury, and executioner I know is God. So please people allow others to answer to (their) God, and not you and your pastor! If it's wrong then God and that person will deal with it. But understand that no one sin is greater than the other so having an abortion is just as bad as the sin you committed yesterday, last night, and this morning. So unless we're having a stone throwing party at your glass house, stay out of mine!