What you've experienced, individually, doesn't make it so for the rest of the world

Note to football player Tim Tebow, his Mom and to everyone else out there in the world:

Just because you experienced something and have found something to be true for you, doesn't make it so, universally, for everyone else in the world.

In fact, this point drives me wild.

So many people going through life judging others based on what they think and believe is "universally true" when, in fact, whatever rules or ideas they're using may well not be at all. It's true for so many things.

So many people think that, just because their life has proven some idea or thought to be true, that this is the way it is for the rest of the world.

It just ain't so.

To wit: apparently, Mrs. Tebow was told, we are told, she should seriously consider terminating her pregancy (read: have an abortion) when her son, Tim, was coming along.

She decided against it. Good for her. Yahoo.

She went ahead, carried Matt to term, gave birth and we're all living happily ever after.

That's her story.

And just because that's true for her absolutely does not, then, as I said above, make this the same case for the rest of humanity.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not crazy for abortions. It's not like I think we need or want lots of these things in the world.

But we do, unfortunately--humankind's history has proven it--"need" the option of abortion.

There, I said it.

They're legal. And they've been legal since 1973.

And get this--some women really need them, for their own personal, serious, legitimate reasons.

But if some women can be assisted in some ways, whether with financial assistance or counseling or whatever so that she could either keep the child or have her/him adopted, terrific! That's great, of course.

Government, especially "conservative" and non-intrusive government shouldn't rule her options and make her have the child.

And to this, I offer a wonderful, simple, intelligent solution for all the "Right to Lifers" out there and that is this: stop fighting RU486 and other new medicines/drugs that could end a possible pregnancy within 24 hours of the possible conception.

Then people could stop having abortions.

Of course, you'd lose your one issue but that's what's really important anyway, isn't it?

You want to have your one issue you can rail about and judge others on.