I just have a question for both sides. This post is not about whether abortion is wrong or the choice of the woman. I have a question that has nothing to do with either.
Were you brought up pro choice or pro life? Were your parents (or whoever raised you) pro life or pro choice? Or were your care givers the opposite of what you are today?
I don't have a clue. My mom had one abortion and I am very pro life so she just told me about it like last year. She claims to not be ok with abortion but years ago had one for not being ready. My SIL has had like 3 and it makes me sick because she just said "we didn't want a baby right now" I just grew up and made my own descision.
I was raised catholic. So obviously I was raised pro life. But today I am pro choice, but I am also no longer a christian. Although that has nothing to do with why I am pro choice.
Yea I always thought Catholics were pro life and my cousin and her mom are devout (well her mom lol) Catholics but tried to push my cousin to get one. I think most of them are though. I am Christian and it has partly to do with it I guess but really it's just my oppinion.
A lot of catholics are hypocrites. Including my grandfather. LOL. But yes, I have even seen bumper stickers that said if you're pro choice you're not catholic.
I don't know, I'm pro-life but I have no clue about my parents. I would assume my dad is pro-life and mom pro-choice because of their political parties but we never talked about that when I was a child.
The extent of American ignorance continues to amaze me
When I was growing up abortions were illelgal. There was no pro choice or pro life. When I was young a friend of my oldest half sister was killed in a botched abortion attempt. When my mother found out my father's vasectomy hand't "taken" she went from neighbor to neighbor asking if they knew any doctors who did abortions, she never found one, my sister was born and out of guilty my mother doted on her for her entire life. I don't know when it was I "decided" that I was pro choice, I have always been Pro woman (not anti man) and have seen how hard some have struggled, so my being pro choice goes hand in hand with being pro woman. She should have the right to determine how her body is used, from the choice of birth control to the choice of cough medicines. From the choice to have sex or not to the choice of wearing sneakers or flip flops.
Both my parents are pro-choice.
I have become pro-life due to dealing with a lot of people who have had abortions, researching abortion, having my own children (including twins whom I watched via ultrasound from very early interact with each other as they developed) and logically thinking through the issue from a medical and legal viewpoint.
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My mother is a raging Liberal. Abortion was not brought up as a topic of conversation, but I get the distinct feeling she may have had one prior to meeting my father. Opposites attract.
I was undecided until I saw the delicate balance between life and death with my own child. I am now 100 % Pro Life, with few exceptions.
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on Mar. 19, 2010 at 11:35 AM