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Exactly. Not generalize or make a blanket statement, but the most ardent pro-life/anti-abortion people I have met are also some of the most ardent supporters of the death penalty. They are more than happy to show horrible photos of an aborted fetus to prove that taking a life is wrong yet they happily join the ?burn baby burn? crowd when a killer is executed.
How can you have it both ways?
Its very easy to say you would NEVER consider abortion if you haven?t been faced with this decision but until it happens to you or someone you love, you don?t REALLY know what you would do. I HAVE been in that situation (in a wanted pregnancy). Thank God my son and I are both alive but if the risky option I chose to treat the complication had not been successful, my choices were (a) abort and save my life so I could be around to raise my 2 year old son or (b) continue the pregnancy, let the complication take its course and prepare for my baby?s inevitable death along with my own.
To be brutally honest, leaving my 2 year old without a mother was not an option I was willing to take. So there, you can see what course I would have taken.
I certainly hope not.
I do not believe abortion should be used as a form of birth control but taking away the option completely is a very scary prospect to me. Even birth control used perfectly fails sometimes and I don?t see what good can come from forcing someone who doesn?t want a child to carry one for 9 months and raise it with resentment for the next 18 years. Adoption would be the ideal solution of course but not every woman is emotionally capable of doing it?and what kind of life is a child who is unwanted from the moment of conception going to have? Is that fair to him/her? You can say ?well at least he has a chance to grow up and be someone? but being unwanted during your most formative years leaves a lifetime of scars that never completely heal.
I agree that late term abortion should be limited or not used at all?I can?t think of very many situations that would call for it. A first trimester fetus cannot survive outside the womb?second trimester is the gray area and I have qualms about it being used then other than in the most extreme cases. Not knowing you are pregnant or changing your mind are not viable reasons.
I also don?t think a woman?s economic status has much to do with her decision to have an abortion?women of all ages, economic backgrounds and marital status choose to end their pregnancies. As a matter of fact, married Caucasian women make up a good percentage of women who choose this option in the US. Maybe it is done mainly for selfish reasons?so maybe its not so horrible that certain women choose not to become mothers or have more children than they can handle?
Originally posted by Mrs. Edge
But even if they *were* all guilty....I thought the whole point of being pro-life was that you were supposed to be protecting ALL life at any cost and that every life has value? Because if we get to pick and choose then the same rules should apply to the embryo that threatens the life of an innocent rape victim for example.
Exactly. Not generalize or make a blanket statement, but the most ardent pro-life/anti-abortion people I have met are also some of the most ardent supporters of the death penalty. They are more than happy to show horrible photos of an aborted fetus to prove that taking a life is wrong yet they happily join the ?burn baby burn? crowd when a killer is executed.
How can you have it both ways?
I really wonder (and this is not directed at you, it's just a continuation of the thought), what some of the people in here who are soooooo principled - they wouldn't ever THINK about an abortion (especially if it doesn't affect them personally!) would do if someone they loved - a wife, daughter, sister - faced serious complications or death as a result of an unwanted pregnancy, or even a wanted one for that matter. Wouldn't they want to do anything to save her life?
Its very easy to say you would NEVER consider abortion if you haven?t been faced with this decision but until it happens to you or someone you love, you don?t REALLY know what you would do. I HAVE been in that situation (in a wanted pregnancy). Thank God my son and I are both alive but if the risky option I chose to treat the complication had not been successful, my choices were (a) abort and save my life so I could be around to raise my 2 year old son or (b) continue the pregnancy, let the complication take its course and prepare for my baby?s inevitable death along with my own.
To be brutally honest, leaving my 2 year old without a mother was not an option I was willing to take. So there, you can see what course I would have taken.
Would they actually be able to believe that a collection of cells, perhaps those from a rapist, is ultimately more important than the love of their life...a fully fledged living, feeling woman?
I certainly hope not.
I do not believe abortion should be used as a form of birth control but taking away the option completely is a very scary prospect to me. Even birth control used perfectly fails sometimes and I don?t see what good can come from forcing someone who doesn?t want a child to carry one for 9 months and raise it with resentment for the next 18 years. Adoption would be the ideal solution of course but not every woman is emotionally capable of doing it?and what kind of life is a child who is unwanted from the moment of conception going to have? Is that fair to him/her? You can say ?well at least he has a chance to grow up and be someone? but being unwanted during your most formative years leaves a lifetime of scars that never completely heal.
I agree that late term abortion should be limited or not used at all?I can?t think of very many situations that would call for it. A first trimester fetus cannot survive outside the womb?second trimester is the gray area and I have qualms about it being used then other than in the most extreme cases. Not knowing you are pregnant or changing your mind are not viable reasons.
I also don?t think a woman?s economic status has much to do with her decision to have an abortion?women of all ages, economic backgrounds and marital status choose to end their pregnancies. As a matter of fact, married Caucasian women make up a good percentage of women who choose this option in the US. Maybe it is done mainly for selfish reasons?so maybe its not so horrible that certain women choose not to become mothers or have more children than they can handle?
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