A sad view of abortion supporter

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Please help me feel better about this.

On a different site I was discussing abortion with many pro-choicers. After a long chat it became clear from many of them that they do not hold their own lives as being special, or of any high value at all.

It struck me that if those people do not even value their own lives, then why would they ever place any value on the life of an unborn baby?

Frankly, it was an eye opener because I think it explains why it is so hard (nearly impossible to get pro-life points across to some people.

I left there feeling very sad for those people.
 
many many years ago i had myself convinced that i was pro-choice. after all, my parents who are good catholics are pro-choice. and i WAS going to a good public university nursing school where we did rotations at the public health department where they condoned pre-marital relations and volunteered our time for “clinics”…(who knows what exactly went on there), but after i met DH, who happened to be NOT catholic and pro-life, i knew that this viewpoint bothered him. i was very young, early 20’s and thought I knew everything. I knew he was praying for me. it took about 3 years, but one day i was listening to family life radio and this overwhelming feeling came over me. i’m sure now that it was the holy spirit. looking back, i feel sorry for the person i was. i thought i knew better than the Lord. i thought that my ideas were ok, and they weren’t. now i’m avidly pro-life and even volunteer at a local crisis pregnancy center doing ultrasounds. that’s all we can do for these people, is pray for them. even my own parents haven’t veered from their positions, even though in their eyes, they are the best catholics in the church. sad. twk
 
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many many years ago i had myself convinced that i was pro-choice. after all, my parents who are good catholics are pro-choice. and i WAS going to a good public university nursing school where we did rotations at the public health department where they condoned pre-marital relations and volunteered our time for “clinics”…(who knows what exactly went on there), but after i met DH, who happened to be NOT catholic and pro-life, i knew that this viewpoint bothered him. i was very young, early 20’s and thought I knew everything. I knew he was praying for me. it took about 3 years, but one day i was listening to family life radio and this overwhelming feeling came over me. i’m sure now that it was the holy spirit. looking back, i feel sorry for the person i was. i thought i knew better than the Lord. i thought that my ideas were ok, and they weren’t. now i’m avidly pro-life and even volunteer at a local crisis pregnancy center doing ultrasounds. that’s all we can do for these people, is pray for them. even my own parents haven’t veered from their positions, even though in their eyes, they are the best catholics in the church. sad. twk
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Thank you so much for sharing this. This is a great testament to show that prayer can and does work. And so we continue to pray…
 
twk001 said:
many many years ago i had myself convinced that i was pro-choice. after all, my parents who are good catholics are pro-choice. and i WAS going to a good public university nursing school where we did rotations at the public health department where they condoned pre-marital relations and volunteered our time for “clinics”…(who knows what exactly went on there), but after i met DH, who happened to be NOT catholic and pro-life, i knew that this viewpoint bothered him. i was very young, early 20’s and thought I knew everything. I knew he was praying for me. it took about 3 years, but one day i was listening to family life radio and this overwhelming feeling came over me. i’m sure now that it was the holy spirit. looking back, i feel sorry for the person i was. i thought i knew better than the Lord. i thought that my ideas were ok, and they weren’t. now i’m avidly pro-life and even volunteer at a local crisis pregnancy center doing ultrasounds. that’s all we can do for these people, is pray for them. even my own parents haven’t veered from their positions, even though in their eyes, they are the best catholics in the church. sad. twk
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Thank you for sharing your story. Did you ever feel as if your life had no value?
 
I had an abortion 12 years ago while in school. At the time, I was just confused and scared.

I always felt guilty and sad about it, but I didn’t really begin to see the gravity of what I had done until I went in to get an ultrasound when I was 7 weeks pregnant. I’ll never forget how my heart sang when I first laid my eyes on Elisa. She was a little peanut with a beating heart. I’ll never forget it.

I had my abortion when I was 7 weeks pregnant. I can’t help but think that God wanted me to see what I had aborted all those years ago.
 
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I had an abortion 12 years ago while in school. At the time, I was just confused and scared.

I always felt guilty and sad about it, but I didn’t really begin to see the gravity of what I had done until I went in to get an ultrasound when I was 7 weeks pregnant. I’ll never forget how my heart sang when I first laid my eyes on Elisa. She was a little peanut with a beating heart. I’ll never forget it.

I had my abortion when I was 7 weeks pregnant. I can’t help but think that God wanted me to see what I had aborted all those years ago.
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Thank you. I am guessing you never saw human life as holding no real value…as do the people I talked to today.
 
i did also value human life, but always had the notion that “it’s not for me, but should be ok if somebody decides that it’s what they want”. i also had no experience with sexual decisions- i was chaste…i for sure did not see what the Lord had in store for me- a battle with infertility. and finally, as someone who was adopted as in infant, i realized that my own birth mom could have terminated my life and chose not to. what a young idiot i was…twk
 
irishpatrick said:
It struck me that if those people do not even value their own lives, then why would they ever place any value on the life of an unborn baby?
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I don’t think you can always say that this is the case, though. For the longest time (and still to a point today), I have always felt that my life has little or no value, yet I am pro-life.

My position is that the babies (and younger kids, as well) are more loved by God because they have not committed the sins that I have.

With the sins I have committed, I deserve death (and scripture says so). The babies and children are innocent and do not deserve anything like I do.

Frankly, the love God has for me is harder for me to accept than transubstantiation, or not using ABC, or just about any position the Church has. But yet I still feel Him working in the confessional, which has always amazed me. Which is probably why I am at peace this week:rolleyes: I think He’s slowly teaching me about love.
 
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