THIS IS NOT ABOUT ABORTION!

This is about 'STUPID.'  

In case you doubt that what follows  qualifies, let me list the meaning of the word from Dictionary.com and let you decide.
1. lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull. 2. characterized by or proceeding from mental dullness; foolish; senseless: a stupid question. 3. tediously dull, esp. due to lack of meaning or sense; inane; pointless: a stupid party. 4. annoying or irritating; troublesome.

Now, I am the first person to empathize with those less fortunate in the smarts department due to youth or biological misfortune.  I was young once, too.  And I believe we are entrusted to care for those who cannot care for themselves due to mental deficiencies from birth, accidents or diseases.  I have a bleeding heart---at times so large as to be called a liberal.  It's true!

BUT when a person of seemingly average intelligence or better, from listening to her speak, calls three Bubbas at the radio station for advice on whether to keep or kill her unborn child.....I don't think you could smack enough smarts into that head to fix whatever is obviously broken in her.

This morning after I deposited my children at their school, I tuned in to 106.1 FM for my short daily drive in to work.  A young woman announced to the three DJs that she was in a quandary and needed advice.  (I don't know if she thought she was calling Dr. Laura and got mixed up, but I guess that would be even another kind of stupid---but at least a more understandable one as Laura Schlessinger is actually a therapist in real life and on the dial.)   Her dilemma: to keep or kill her baby!

 It felt like a perverted version of Three Men and a Baby. They wanted more details.  The caller said she was six weeks pregnant.  Her 23-year-old fiance of three years (THREE YEARS!  Where the hell is Beyonce?? Even she would give better advice.), who had just left for military service in the Middle East, wanted her to "get rid of it."  He just wasn't ready.  Obviously, commitment is an issue for this American hero. However, she said she wanted to keep the baby but didn't want to wind up a single mother again, as she already has a child from a previous relationship.

And the advice from these de facto shrinks: "It's your decision!"  Dear Lord, why hadn't she thought of that?!  It's your decision!  Amazing.  It all became instantly clear.  I could almost feel the light shining down in that moment.

Yep, Missy, it's all your decision.  It was your decision to live with this man for three years without commitment.  It was your decision to not protect yourself from this situation (again, I might add).  It's your decision to kowtow to this man and lose this precious life growing inside you.  Rest assured, though, you will resent it, so the relationship will end anyway.  And it's your decision whether or not to act like the  mother that God has entrusted you to be.

I am so glad that Tom, Dick and Harry were available on the radio this morning to help you with something so life-changing .... or life-ending.