Yesterday:

Portugal decided to legalize abortion.

- Coincidence or not, soon before the results were made public my grandmother reads me a quote from a book she was reading:
"Humans are more worried about wasting money in death than in life."

- Coincidence or not, soon after I receive an email from a friend with this text written by an american boy who experienced one of the many high school massacres in the USA:
"The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways but narrower viewpoints; we spend more but have less; we buy more but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences but less time; we have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge but less judgment, more experts but more problems, more medicine but less wellness.
We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values.We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too
often. We've learned how to make a living but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years. We've been to the Moon and back but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.We've conquered outer space but not inner space; we've cleaned up the air but polluted the soul; we've split the atom but not our prejudice. We have higher incomes but lower morals; we've become long on quantity but short on quality.
These are the times of tall people and shorter characters, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the times we crave world peace but see more domestic violence, more leisure but less fun; more kinds of food but less nutrition. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, of fancier houses but broken homes.
It is a time when there is much in the showroom window but nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you"

I would like to think that this change will make it easier to dissuade people from abortion. I fear that it won't.
I would like to think that this will be a good thing for both the women and the babies. I fear that it won't.
I would like to think that my reasoning for voting "no" was wrong. I fear that it wasn't.
I would like to forget that yesterday I saw people effusively celebrating, because killing 10 week old human beings has become legal. But I can't.
I would like NOT to think that human kind has turned into this consumerist and selfish species, in which everything counts for being comfortable, famous and successful. But I do....each day more.

"Our freedom ends where the freedom of others start"

PS - Despite this, I understand and respect the reasoning of the defenders of "Sim"...I just think differently.