maculate conception

I’ve completed one whole week of taking my birth control pill. I didn’t even miss any (though I did sometimes forget until 8 hours later). So, the pills are doing their job – no babies. Of course the recent weeks have probably contributed to that, what with visiting the ‘rents, then the 3000 mile separation, and then the proximity of Houseguest in the next room. But the point is, my money is well spent. No babies.

However I know lots of people that are doing the opposite. They are spending money and time going to the doctor and buying things to help them conceive. They want children. They have discussed it with their partner and consciously decided to bring new life into this world. But Fate is cruel, and they are having trouble. No babies for them either. Yet there are people out there that are breeding like sporous mushrooms. They don’t want children. These are the people that fund the abortion industry and the leave-your-baby-in-a-dumpster industry.

Clearly the universe has a quota for babies being born. But it’s not a fair system. It seems that those that genuinely want a baby, and have the means to raise the child in a loving healthy environment, are the ones that have the hardest time. Meanwhile, well, just read the news.

You know, Universe*, if you let people make a conscious choice about having babies and then complied with their wishes, you would have an easier time with it all. Less babies would be conceived because only those that really wanted them would be able to. Those that were just out for casual sex with no family plans would not have the burden of getting rid of their unwanted children. The population would stabilize itself. There would be no need for things like tsunamis, earthquakes, famines, terrorist attacks, snowstorms, and the like to thin out the overcrowded planet. That’s not fair, and we deserve a fair universe.

Someday I’m going to want children. Whether it’s easy or not, it still won’t be fair. There are those that will say “why did you get to conceive first try?” or “why did you have to spend thousands of dollars just for a glimmer of hope of conception?” and I won’t have an answer for either of them. But it goes on record that I am pro the Fairness in the Universe Act. Can someone please get to work on that? Thanks.



* Call it God, Fate, whatever. I can’t appeal to Evolution on this one.