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scarlethiney -> RE: Pro-life Anti-Christian (10/27/2008 6:07:45 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BlackPhx
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ORIGINAL: Elisabella
Being pro-life means that you think the secular government shouldn't sanction feticide.
There are obviously ways to terminate a pregnancy without legal abortion. Women have done that for millenia. In fact, a pennyroyal concoction is a bit more dangerous, and really presses home the gravity of the choice you're making - kinda like being kicked out of a garden with no security. If you're following that analogy, that is.
I was going to stay out of this, I really was..but..you got me.
Yes women have taken ergot and other poisons for centuries to terminate a pregnancy. Know what it is called? Abortion. It fact it is what the word was coined to cover..the taking of poisons to abort an infant at ANY STAGE. Sometimes it worked..Sometimes the Mother and Baby died, sometimes the baby was born and left out to die in the weather, snow, sleet, balmy summer eve, torrential rain, eaten by rats, dogs, pecked to death by crows..bye bye. THAT is a much crueler death in my opinion.
There are very few women who waltz into a clinic and have an abortion like they are going to have their nails or hair done.It is an agonizing choice that leaves scars on your heart and mind like nothing else can. At 55 I still hurt over the abortion that was ordered for me to rid me of my fathers "gift". Worse however would have been bringing it into the world..severely handicapped children weren't adopted back in those days and there was no way I could have cared for it and I would have killed to keep it away from my parents. What they did to me was bad enough.
Everyone has a right to life, but one would hope it would be a good life. Not one of starvation, torture, beating, drug addiction, abuse. So many have latched onto the "socialism" supposedly in the current campaign, but consider if you will..every UM that is born UNWANTED and abandoned to the foster care system will have have its care paid for, is an Um who will grow up on your dime, need medicaid, food, clothing, education housing all paid for by your taxes. There are just not enough Foster Homes, Adoptive parents and there is no way to force someone to take care of their own Um if it is unwanted. Few are the women who would be able to look at an Um who was the product of Rape, Incest, Abuse and hold them tight. I know in my tender years I could not have.
I don't agree with abortion as a means of birth control, but I support a woman's right to her body and to her right to make choices, even the hard ones. No one else knows if she is able to handle a child, and there are too many unwanted children already in this world.. Maybe some of the right to lifers should adopt all of them, before demanding that more are brought into the world unloved and unwanted. Better a quick death before birth than a slow torturous one afterward. We have too many children tortured to death yearly as it is by parents who don't want them.
poenkitten
I was about to post this very same sentiment almost word for word. Thank you poenkitten for having the courage to share your life and your feelings.
I do not believe in my heart that abortion is ever a choice that is made callously and to suggest that it is a calculated murder and some how worse than all the indignities and horror so many unwanted children suffer every single day is asinine.
When all the pro-lifers agree to take in and provide sustenance and love and an education to every unwanted child then I will become a pro-lifer.
Until you've worked at childrens home or ranch and witnessed first hand the ugly cruelty of what really happens to children who were not wanted then all your moralizing is nothing but lip service.
scarlet
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