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You condone abortions, there is no "degree of guilt".
I suggest you ease away from the politisized rhetoric like "pro-abortion", as politicizing ANY concern diminishes that important issue and using slogans identifies you with the radicals of that movement.
Abortions are a personal matter. They are matter between the woman and her god (if any), her doctor, her spouse (if she chooses), and/or herself alone.
It is not a matter for government to determine.
Choice is also key as it brings the issue into the limelight where targeted education can effect the numbers of abortions posively (as in lowering those nubmers to pre-1973 numbers).
ANY concern driven underground looses that option, as history plainly shows. AIDs in the US, for example, wouldn't see anywhere near the number of victims had the GLBT community not still been driven undergound in the 1960's
Targeted Education has helped lower the abortion numbers from it's height of app 1,577,200 in 1984 to some 1.2 million last year. And guess what, abstinence only programs and appeals to emotion had nothing to do with it.
Women have a choice. Women can opt not to have abortions. No one is forcing women to have abortions. However, removal of choice IS forcing all women who do not wish to have a child, or more chldren, ( andwho also do not persue illegal venues) to bear children against their will.
No. That's incorrect. I don't condone abortion in the least. I said there is a part of me that can understand it.. Just because I understand it doesn't mean I condone it.
Huh?
You don't believe my almost story.. oh that's nice? lol I don't know what I can do to "prove it" to you.. since it's the internet and all but I can tell you it's very true. I was slated to go to university, my fiance (now husband) and I found out I was pregnant shortly after I graduated high school. We had firmly decided to have an abortion, we told my mom. I started having very bad pains in my ovary area and I went to a Catholic hospital. I told them my intent was to have an abortion and that they could do whatever they wanted to get the pain to go away. I was informed I had a cyst on my ovary that was leaking which was causing the pain. While they did the ultrasound to see that, I looked at it and told my fiance that I couldn't have an abortion.
Later on in the pregnancy we found out I had a very heightened risk for Trisomy 18... again kind of facing the "what ifs" and had decided that we would not have an abortion if that were the case.. thankfully the test was incorrect and we now have a brilliant four year old. Subsequently having another child who is two also.
Believe it or not, whatever.
Why I would make that up for a message board I'm not so sure.
That's why personal experience doesn't count in debates. Its subjective and therefore, not credible. Now, had you utilized through out your posts, any of them, any supporting data then it could be taken into consideration. But you haven't. In fact, you have operated on the what is true for one must be true for all. I don't believe you. So, the personal experience that you claim is pretty much invalid and not to be taken seriously.
That's why personal experience doesn't count in debates. Its subjective and therefore, not credible. Now, had you utilized through out your posts, any of them, any supporting data then it could be taken into consideration. But you haven't. In fact, you have operated on the what is true for one must be true for all. I don't believe you. So, the personal experience that you claim is pretty much invalid and not to be taken seriously.
I'm not interested in sharing my story to 'win' debates, so basically, you took it to a personal level of basically attempting to say I'm a liar.. so... that means this debate is over for me. Thanks for playing, next time try not to sound like such a jerk.
Something that I see that gets brought up in abortion debates a alot is.."If you aren't ready to have a kid don't have sex".
I do not want children. Not ever. I am doing everything short of not having sex with my soon to be husband to avoid getting pregnant.
But if my multiple methods of birth control failed (not likely, but it COULD happen). Off to the abortion clinic I will go.
I know I know, why don't I get sterilized? The doctors who will sterilize a 22 year old woman who's not had any children are very few and far between.
In fact, I know a woman who was told by multiple doctors that carrying a baby to term WOULD kill her. And yet, she STILL could not find a doctor that would sterilize her.
Something that I see that gets brought up in abortion debates a alot is.."If you aren't ready to have a kid don't have sex".
I do not want children. Not ever. I am doing everything short of not having sex with my soon to be husband to avoid getting pregnant.
But if my multiple methods of birth control failed (not likely, but it COULD happen). Off to the abortion clinic I will go.
I know I know, why don't I get sterilized? The doctors who will sterilize a 22 year old woman who's not had any children are very few and far between.
In fact, I know a woman who was told by multiple doctors that carrying a baby to term WOULD kill her. And yet, she STILL could not find a doctor that would sterilize her.
Something that I see that gets brought up in abortion debates a alot is.."If you aren't ready to have a kid don't have sex".
I do not want children. Not ever. I am doing everything short of not having sex with my soon to be husband to avoid getting pregnant.
But if my multiple methods of birth control failed (not likely, but it COULD happen). Off to the abortion clinic I will go.
I know I know, why don't I get sterilized? The doctors who will sterilize a 22 year old woman who's not had any children are very few and far between.
In fact, I know a woman who was told by multiple doctors that carrying a baby to term WOULD kill her. And yet, she STILL could not find a doctor that would sterilize her.
Try a 35 year old married man with 2 children. We didn't want any MORE. We had to listen to a lecture. "Have you really thought about this?" Yeah, like when we fist got married 10 year ago. "What would you do if your children were killed in an accident?" Be childless. Like you cannot replace a child like going out and getting a kitten or a puppy. Endless questions. 24 hour waiting period. I had to sign my consent for my husband's surgery. Hello? What are we a couple of idiots? That is how I felt. I even told that doctor that. He must have been Christian. I don't know or care. All I know is that I was very MAD, as a wife, woman, and MOTHER about this attitude.
No. That's incorrect. I don't condone abortion in the least. I said there is a part of me that can understand it.. Just because I understand it doesn't mean I condone it.
You are either for or against, according to the mentality of the anti-choice crowd.
Take it up with your peers.
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Oh, not just 22 year old women
