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hizgeorgiapeach -> RE: Pro-life Anti-Christian (10/28/2008 8:51:49 AM)
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ORIGINAL: celticlord2112
Point of clarification: No matter the mechanism, abortion is a wrong choice. DIY abortions are just as wrong as the current sanctioned procedures. The goal should not be a "return" to DIY abortions, but an end to the practice, period.
CL - did you even read my earlier responce to this thread? If you did, did you comprehend it? Or did you simply skim past it and ignore it because it doesn't jive with your own line of reasoning? You rather conveniently mention Mechanism here - but say nothing of the Reasons.
This issue is Not simple. This is Not a course that is exclusively taken for Convenience. There are Multitudes of reasons to have the base procedure - a D & C - performed by the doctor. Not every woman who faces the abort process is doing so because she was Careless, or Irresponcible, or To Young to have developed the "right" morality. We face that decision to preserve our own health. We face that decision to avoid bringing another life into the world that can't Medically survive outside the womb. We face that decision. And once the decision is made, we question it, and our worth, and our continuing femininity, and whether or not we've served one of the primary Biological purposes that women serve. And we spend the rest of our lives questioning.
By your stated reasoning - ie, it's wrong and that's all there is to it - you would condeme women like myself, who have STRONG GENETIC REASONS not to bring that fetus to term, to attempting to raise a child that they aren't capable of raising either physically or emotionally. I was in a stable, live in relationship of several years. We WANTED to have a child together. We had tried multiple times to do so, and kept going through the emotional agony of miscarriage due to Genetic malformations - the Same genetic problems which had caused my oldest to be born with severe handicaps that the doctors are Still amazed she survived through. And then came a set of Twins - and one miscarried, and the other didn't. And for 2 weeks after half that set of twins died, I agonized over whether to take the doctor's suggestion of terminating the second twin, while I waited for test results. In the end, due to the test results, I followed the doctor's suggestion. The fetus most likely wouldn't have survived to term, and if it had, would have suffered from even more severe difficulties of the sort that my oldest has faced for 21 years. But I guess none of that matters - none of the reasons, none of the emotional suffering of a couple who wanted to reproduce together but couldn't sucessfully do so, none of the grief - because it's Always the wrong choice according to you.
Do you consider the Abomination which is a fetus concieved via Rape or Incest to be more important (after all, you CAN'T Kill it) than the mental and physical health of the female who was raped or concieved through incest? Do you consider Medically Unviable pregnancies - pregnancies which the doctors say will kill the Mother to continue - more important than the woman's life who's going through it? I ask these questions - which no doubt many pro-life folks consider "inappropriate" - because your stated stance is blanketing. It is all encompassing, and takes NOTHING into consideration other than "do not under any circumstances terminate the pregnancy because that's killing" (to paraphrase.)
I don't Like termination as an option when it's used for Convenience. I don't approve of it, nor condone it, when it's used to as a form of (expensive) birth control. But I Also don't approve - and won't condone - condeming all who face the procedure simply because Some who do so were irresponcible twits that just want to avoid a consequence they didn't consider before going and getting laid.
I don't have the Right - AND NEITHER DO YOU - to foist my Personal morals off on the rest of the humanity.
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