Who Do I Think I Am??

This one's about, uhhh? Right?

30DBC PROMPT: "Hidden in plain sight."

Hey folks, what's happenin'? Am I missing something here? Did my spam filter catch something in the email from the "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  that maybe I was supposed to see? Am I just blind??

Wow. This is trouble-making, 30DBC. Straight-up chicanery. I'm calling it now.

I design thin hand lip.

I hand signed thin lip.

I lip sang the din hind.

I give up. I got nothin' on this prompt today.

BCF PROMPT: "What rights should the father have if his unmarried girlfriend wants an abortion?"

And at the other end of the spectrum, you have pure controversy.

I'm going to side with fairness on this, and say not every case can be considered equal. For every scumbag "dad" that would bolt upon hearing he knocked up his ladyfriend, there's a man waiting to be a father to the child he sired. I'm taking morality and religion out of the question, and presuming that there's a legitimate reason for abortion (that should keep the haters back a little). People make mistakes. Maybe the couple wasn't trying to conceive. Sex does exist for purposes other than prolonging the human race. But maybe the couple isn't ready to raise a child properly, and can't fathom the thought that there is a child somewhere in the world with their gene-map runnin' around that isn't necessarily being brought up the way they'd like him/her to.

Perhaps the woman has become terribly ill and wouldn't survive squeezin' out a kid. Or what if there's a strong chance the kid itself won't survive? Now, I'm not advocating in any way abortion. Especially not as a means of birth control. But say it's come down to that as a final option? Does the knocker-upper have any say?

Honestly, he should at least have an educated opinion. But while it takes two people (or more, depending on your preferences) to make a baby, one person is carrying it, possibly for nine whole months, and her body's never gonna be quite the same after that. If the couple cares for one another, an open dialogue must be had and the seriousness of the implications regarding this decision must be laid out, both pro and con.

Now, I don't know the legalese on what rights unmarried folk have regarding pregnancy. For all I know it varies from state to state and country to country. I'm under the premise that a guy can't force an abortion legally, nor can he stop it from happening. All he gets is a say in the matter, but that's just it...a suggestion, for or against. I think that's why it's always been "the woman's right to choose".

And this is why Fridays aren't funny.

MUSICAL BREAK!!

Let's try to switch gears a little here, shall we? I used to sing this on a bar stool, warming up the crowd at GPC back in the day.

VITAL STATS:

I'm no doctor, but I've decided I want the five remaining screws removed from my leg. Either that, or I want a better explanation as to why they're still in there. I need to convince my doctor that I really don't like them being where they are.

That's it for today, y'all. Think I'm gonna decamp inside for the rest of the day and relax...might not be a bad idea. Peace, hide in plain sight, and GOODNIGHT NOW!!