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by Angelene on January 3rd, 2007

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If you believe in abortion then why do you think it is right?

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  • by beenaroundtheblock on January 3rd, 2007

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    I'm betting you meant, agree that women should have the right to have an abortion. (we mostly all believe in abortions because they are real).

    I think most pro-choice people are also pro-life. I think most pro-choice people would say it's unfortunate everytime a woman feels abortion is her best option.
    If we really want to be an abortion free society, then we need to improve medicine so that it is never necessary to choose between the life of a mother and an unborn baby. We need to insist that men step up, so that a pregnant woman could be assured of some support and factor that into her decision making. And we need to improve the conditions in society so that young women aren't seeing that as their best option.

    Nobody wants to go under the knife. I've never met any of these so called women who "just use it as birth control", I've never met a woman who had a casual attitude about it.

    I don't think it's right that children of single mothers live so far below the poverty line. I don't think it's right that these women are judged so harshly and often outcast by the rest of society.
    Do the people who are opposed to abortions engourage their sons to date that girl who had the out of wedlock baby? Do they go over and shovel her walks because they know she is alone with children? Do they drop off a bag of groceries?

    I've never had an abortion, but I did have an out of wedlock baby, in a small "Christian" community. That was the hardest year of my life. I tried to commit suicide after I gave the baby up. And I know that I did the right thing. I couldn't provide anykind of a life for that child, and wouldn't be able to for years.
    I was the only girl to have a baby in high school, but I wasn't the only girl to get pregnant. Everyone else who got pregnant had an abortion (having had a baby, I was privy to lots of confidences). The girls who had abortions were not stygmatized, didn't screw up their high school progress. And none of them committed suicide (though I don't know if any ever tried).

    As to the whole adoption thing. Well a year is a long time to be pregnant and try to support yourself. And I'll share a story to consider. Several years ago in Canada, a woman (Chantale Dagle?) met a guy in a bar, had sex with him and didn't talk to him again. It was a mistake she would have sooner forgotten.
    She became pregnant and was going to have an abortion. Word spread aamong her circle, eventually reaching the man. He went to court and got an injunction preventing her from doing this as he was the father and had rights to that child. She was to carry the child to term and then give it up to this man, or carry it and raise it herself.
    She managed to get across the border into the States and had an abortion here.
    I don't think that abortion is "right". I think it's sad. It's sad that we don't take better care of each other.

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      by go_to_hellas on January 3rd, 2007

    • Congratulations for not killing your baby. High school must have been rough for you. However, you don't to live with the knowledge that you killed your child as they others do. About 95% of abortions are purely birth control; they have nothing to do with health concerns at all. They just don't want the baby, in some cases for very sad reasons. Nonetheless, it is possible to do the right thing, just as you did.

      Eric

      by Eric on August 24th, 2009

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