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fluffyswitch -> RE: What are some of your most controversial opinions? (2/11/2008 8:42:58 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MissMorrigan
Fluffy, I felt compelled to respond to your comments.
I understand the complexities people face in their every day lives which lead them to make such choices. I have always approached having sex with understanding that regardless of contraceptives used, I could potentially be creating life, hence having had few lovers. I don't have a tinted-glasses view of life, I am also not about bullying people with my opinion, and having worked (albeit briefly) at a clinic where abortions were performed, and researching them, I can only have the opinion that abortion should NEVER be used as a method of contraception - In the clinic in which I worked, one would have thought stats would have been higher among younger girls, infact, women in their late 20s, 30s and 40s had multiple abortions - By multiple, I am not suggesting two, but fourth and fifth abortions.
Oversimplification is preferring to wear blinkers and not acknowledge that 23 week-old foetuses have not only been born, but survived, and until stopping the heart in the womb prior to injecting the womb with a cuastic saline solution, those foetuses are horribly burned in their final throes. I, personally, would, and do, concentrate on trying to ensure people are correctly educated so that they can make the right decisions for them (not for me) and hopefully not wind up in a situation where they have to face such choices, Fluffy.
As for adoption. I'm not sure what the adoption process is like in the US, but here in the UK it's incredibly difficult for people in their forties and older to adopt children. Not all couples want cute little babies. The former Headmistress of my son's old school has thirteen children - all adopted and all under a wonderful spectrum of ethnicities. A tremendous lady, yet she's not one of the 'few' greats, she's one of the many.
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ORIGINAL: fluffyswitch
i believe that people on both sides of the abortion debate forget that those who have them are most often well aware of what they are doing. i also believe that both sides of the debate rely on severe oversimplification.
i also believe that people who promote adoption need to look at the number of children still in the system before looking at it as the 'best' option.
i don't suggest that it should be used willy nilly, and as with every thing there are those who use it for the wrong reasons. however i also think that those who do use it are not the horrible people a lot (not all) pro life individuals like to make them out to be.
yes you can keep a premie alive, but that's not the issue here. though to be honest i have to say that using words like burning and throes do make it sound like a moral argument, when it tends to be a much larger decision than that--though i'm not suggesting that that's not your right. if i were to find out that i were pregnant, i could not handle it emotionally and i could not for a variety of reasons that do not need to be discussed here go through the adoption process.
but like i said there tends to be oversimplification at both sides--i'm well aware of what abortion does. that does not make me pro life. i don't think that it should be a form of easy contraception, but like it or not it happens, it has always happened whether it be a wise woman promoting a certain herb or in a back room somewhere. i would rather it just be safe and legal, and work towards better contraceptive methods to make it rare.
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