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How do you feel about Killing Babies?
- Oct 22, 2008 at 5:15 PM
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Did anyone choose C?
No one is FOR killing babies! Just because some one is pro-choice does not mean they are anti-life!
I am tired of being treated like I'm for using abortions as birth control just because I support a mother's right to decide what is best for her family in the case of rape/incest/medical emergency.
I'm also tired of hearing the McCain/Palin argument that Barack Obama is for partial birth abortions. Let me say it again - NO ONE IS FOR KILLING BABIES! Barack Obama voted no on the partial birth abortion ban because it had no provision for protecting the mother.
I read a story a couple of years ago (don't know where the link is anymore but will look for it) about a couple driving back from a weekend trip and being hit by a sleepy semi driver. The husband was killed instantly. The wife, who was in the beginning of her second trimester, was near death and in order to save her life they needed to deliver the baby who obviously would not live at this age. The couple had 6 other children. Whose decision was this to make? I believe these kinds of decisions should be left up to the family - not the government. The woman's family ultimately decided they would have to sacrifice the baby to keep the mother. Should her doctors have been punished for performing this procedure?
Some one I know was raped as a teenager. She didn't tell anyone until the soon before she found out she was pregnant. She had medical complications that would have made it impossible for her to carry a healthy baby to term, if she could have even carried the baby at all. In spite of this fact, she considered trying. It wasn't until she and her doctor had determined that the chances of giving birth a live baby were almost zero that she made the decision to go through an abortion. Should the doctor that performed this procedure be punished?
If you read the two examples above and still think that these doctors should not have been aloud to perform the procedures, I can respect your opinion. It's a very brave thing to believe in something so completely that you would make the decision to honor it even if it were you or your child in these situations. But are you not able to respect those of us who want these decisions to be left up to the families?
I wish that unwanted pregnancy didn't happen. I wish that every baby was loved before, during and after conception. As Barack Obama says, "shouldn't that be something we can all agree on no matter our stance on abortion?" If we can come together to avoid unwanted pregnancy then we wouldn't have to worry so much about birth control abortions or prom night dumpster babies.
To those hardcore pro-life moms - I respect you. Please respect me and those who feel the same way that I do when you come across us. We're mom's too! We love our children and our country the same as you. Pro-choice moms do not eat baby soup!
Pro-choice, not anti-life.
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To those hardcore pro-life moms - I respect you. Please respect me and those who feel the same way that I do when you come across us. We're mom's too! We love our children and our country the same as you. Pro-choice moms do not eat baby soup!
Pro-choice, not anti-life.
took the words right out of my mouth!
What I don't understand is why the pro-choice people don't call it what it is... pro-abortion. Cowards.
Thank you for a respectable post. I am pro life, but all too often I read posts from people who call me "anti-choice" (and that's one of the nicer terms). Just like you are not against life, I am not against choice...much of the time we disagree on when life begins and what to do in extreme circumstances. Now, if a woman was dying, and if the baby didn't come out then the woman would die, causing the death of the baby too, then it's a matter of saving one life vs. the dying of two. I believe the laws are too broad and most abortions are not due to saving the mother's life (or rape or incest), according to the stats. In the extreme cases, perhaps a case by case approach could be taken, but I still believe that life begins at conception and should be protected whenever possible. I do not wish to take away anyone's choice to do what they want with their bodies...my concern is that when another body is concerned (that of the fetus growing within her), now there are 2 lives to consider. It bothers me, too, when people who are pro life are called religious zealots; now my faith has a lot to do with my beliefs on abortion, but I am also heavily influenced by the scientific side of it...they say that the more one knows about science, the less religious he or she is inclined to be, but to me it just shows the beauty of life at all of its stages. May I recommend a good book on the subject? It's a collection of essays dating back from the early 1800s to the present, and it 's called Prolife Feminism: Yesterday and Today. The early feminists were influenced much by their religion, and they were also for rights of many others: men, slaves, fetuses, children, etc. Today's feminists are often not influenced by religion but rather by humanistic views on abortion, carefully weighing the rights of both the woman and the fetus. I try to keep my mind open on the subject, much as I imagine you and many others who believe one way or the other do.
Thank you NurseKim!!! Very nice to have some good words served up from the other side of the table :)
What I don't understand is why the pro-choice people don't call it what it is... pro-abortion. Cowards.
What kills me is how you people click your tongues and shake you heads like you have any idea what it is that these people feel when they have to choose. By the way it is PRO-CHOICE. I am not running around saying "hey you screwed up get an abortion". I am saying "Hey, no matter what your reason you should have the choice".
You think I have no idea what it feels like to have to choose? I have been there! I was the pregnant, unmarried teen with no job, no money and no support. My worst fear was already realized and having an abortion wasn't going to save me from myself. You're so high and mighty about choice, what about the child's choice? Obviously the baby wouldn't choose to be aborted. Why is the child's choice never taken into account? That's hypocritical. You rant and rave about choice but you don't take into consideration the choice of everyone involved. What about the fathers? They're invested in the child just as much as the mother is, why don't they get to choose? You need to think about what you're saying before you throw that word around. If one person should have a choice, everyone should have a choice.
What I don't understand is why the pro-choice people don't call it what it is... pro-abortion. Cowards.
Because I'm actually anti-abortion and believe everything should be done to prevent it whenever possible. But I'm pro-choice politically because I've never been a mother with mirror syndrome, knowing that both she and her baby are going to die and the only way to stop it is to deliver a baby too young to live (although I don't think this should be abortion and that all should be done that can to let said baby live as long as possible) nor a woman with a tubal pregnancy about to destroy my ability to ever give life, past the point of being able to move the baby. Because I've never been a frightened 14 year old rape victim. I've never been in every pregnant pair of shoes in the world. I would never choose an abortion.
But I also believe in hope--that the woman next to me is not choosing it for selfish reasons (though my definition of selfish may differ from hers). "Do not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean, if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." Mohandas Gandi
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