Hey, Readerland! The Ogre is back for Day 25 and I'm hoping you had a Merry Christmas.
More edits and rewrites to do, but I'll handle those tomorrow. One day closer to submission.
Anyway, let's get going on today's entry, starting with the exercise:
17. Get into the head of someone with whom you violently disagree -- whether it's an old ex or
someone on the opposite side of the political fence. Write from their perspective and, drum roll
please, try to make them sympathetic. Then, if it makes you feel better, have them get hit by a
train or violated by an angry golem.
"Abortion may go down in history as the greatest human rights abuse of all time." Mrs. Mynott said. "That there are mothers out there who would purposefully kill their children is an abomination."
"But what about the rights of the mother?" Jane Segal, talk-show host, asked. "Do they not have rights as well?"
"They do." Mrs. Mynott said. "But every human being has rights and because a fetus is a human being, then it is up to the mother to make sure that the baby's rights are preserved."
"Mrs. Mynott," Segal asked. "Is a fetus really a human being? For a while, it's just a lump of cells in the uterus."
Mrs. Mynott laughed. "Aren't we all just lumps of cells? That doesn't separate us from a fetus. At just twenty-one days after conception, a fetus has its own heart beat. At forty days, brain waves can be detected by an EEG. Don't those things make a fetus a human being?"
"But what about that time before the heart beats and brain waves start?" Segal asked. "Does a fetus without a separate heart beat or brain waves a person? Some people would say that until a certain point, the fetus isn't technically alive."
"They are wrong." Mrs. Mynott said. "Do you have children, Miss Segal?"
"No, I do not." Segal said.
"When a woman is pregnant, she knows." Mrs. Mynott said. "She knows that there is life inside her, not just a bunch of reproducing cells. She knows that there is a person inside of her that she needs to protect and nurture. She also knows that abortion is murder."
"But what about people who have accidents, like broken condoms?" Segal asked. "Or women who become pregnant by rape? Don't they have the right to protect themselves?"
"If they're worried about broken condoms," Mrs. Mynott said. "Then maybe they shouldn't be having sex in the first place. As for rape victims, well, adoption is always a possibility. Look, the main concern here is the health and well-being of your child. That should be the first priority of any mother, even those of children that were 'accidents' or unwanted. Murdering them does not count as looking after your children."
"Thank you for your time, Mrs. Mynott." Segal said. "Any final words?"
"Children are our future and they deserve all the love and care we can give them." Mrs. Mynott smiled at the camera. "It is only through them that we leave a piece of ourselves when we go."
Well, not my greatest work. See, I don't 'violently disagree' with someone for being anti-abortion, it's their approach that I might 'violently disagree' with. I tried to make her sympathetic, but I think the whole thing came off kind of bland. You'll have to let me know how I did.
So, what's up for tomorrow? Let's see:
20. Pick five random words from a random word generator (like, say, this one) and incorporate
all of them into your writing exercise.
Okay, so another repeat. Not a surprise at this point, but I enjoy these random exercises. They are lots of fun.
Anyway, that's going to do it for today. Thanks for joining me and I will see you tomorrow. Until then, Merry Christmas, take care and be awesome to each other.
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