mattcanning99 said:
i cant believe what some of you are saying, its not like you are pro CHOICE, its more like you are pro ABORTION.
if we became a society of pro life, people would be FORCED to practice safe sex, and im certain that in due time the number of abortions desired would GREATLY reduce.
with these attitudes, abortions become (or i should say, will REMAIN) as secondary methods of birth control, which they absolutely should NEVER be.
other than in cases of rape or perhaps incest, really think about what an abortion is...sure, the woman has to go through a LOT of stress in those 9 months, which i won't even begin to describe...but perhaps she should have thought of that before she had sex in a situation in which she KNEW she would NOT be able to support a child.
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Do you really believe this? You must be very young.
Before abortion became legal there was a huge network of underground abortionists in America. Women drank poison, went to back-alley locations for what was called a "kitchen-table abortion"-- usually meaning a coat hanger was inserted. All kinds of dreadful means were used. This was not a rarity. Talk to your parents. Everyone knew someone who had done this. Most people knew someone who got injured or sick. It was a secret that festered in women all their lives because, being illegal, they could not speak of an abortion and the psychic pain they endured was all the graver for its inarticulation.
The point is that making abortion illegal again is not going to change people's sexual behavior. We know from syphilis (before it was treatable and ultimately fatal), herpes and HIV epidemics that no matter how dire the possible consequences of unprotected sex, people continue to have it. Men and women will continue to screw and conceive unwanted babies no matter what you wish they would do or how grave the consequences. Do you want to deal in realities or wishes?
Abortion wasn't legalized in this country without a raging debate. What is important to you -- imposing your personal morals on the bodies of all women or protecting their health and honoring their privacy?
The great majority of women in this country favor the right to have an abortion. Their numbers far exceed the minority of the "unborn" for which you claim to speak at any given moment.
If you are so concerned about suffering, why not speak for the young "innocents" killed daily in Iraq by American bombs? Why not speak for the "innocents" daily abused by their familes and soul-killing educational systems?
Why not speak for the "innocents" -- kids like Matthew Shepard -- who are murdered for the way they love? Why not speak for the "innocents" in China -- thousands upon thousands of young girls warehoused and untouched, abandoned by their families? Why not speak for the mentally disabled, the physically handicapped, those dying in agony in a country without public health care, those innocents dying of famine in the sub-continent of Africa or the innocents who perished in Eastern Europe?
In a world of suffering -- where lives are prematurely ended every day -- it is VERY EASY to speak for the oxymoron of the "unborn child." You don't have to do anything to advocate for this being, who is really a creature of your imagination.
Imagine if you really committed yourself to ending suffering of a class of human beings breathing on their own.
If you don't favor abortion, don't have one.
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