Abortion (A truth, and a small confession of my own)

[jaimeleglise]

I grew up in a poor family, I am the 3rd of six living children from my mother. She lost three, so nine total. My mother would have given anything for those children to live. The fact that THIS hurts her emotionally (not to mention me too, I really hope to meet them one day), tells me that maternal instinct is natural, and nothing to fear. I have met women who’ve had abortions (including my own maternal grandmother, and it was against her will, I mean, it was performed without her consent) and many of the women I’ve met that have had abortions…regret it. My sister had a daughter that died when she was like ten weeks old, guess who’s the most active pro-lifer in my family? I mean, all of us ARE Pro-life, but she is by far the most involved, followed by me. Abortion is honestly that disgusts me, and I have helped other people changed their views on it. I have a friend of mine that had a miscarriage (and she was not married), she was against abortion before her pregnancy. however, a little before I met her, she identified as “pro-abortion” not “pro-choice”, “pro-abortion”. She even told me she “used to be pro-abortion”. When she lost her own child though, I think it still made it that much more real then her. It’s difficult for me to talk about, but worse for her. I don’t think she realised she wanted children until she lost one (remember, she does not support abortion). I told her “you aren’t going to BE a mother, you ARE a mother”. This is something to remember about all pregnant women. They ARE mothers, whether they lost their child or not. My father died when I was a child, but he’s still my father.

Thanks, Adam. A beautiful testimony for life.

 

[XndrK]

It is a statistical fact that abortion occurs because birth control failed. The same is true for the “rape/incest” argument. Less than 2% of abortions occurs because of rape/incest. The other 98% occur because women do not want to have to take responsibility for their actions. This thread is the first time that I have ever heard the argument that women choose abortion to avoid the the unpleasantness of pregnancy.

[emphasis mine]

Are you saying that women mostly choose abortion because they are lazy and short-sighted? (Please correct me; I really hope you aren’t.) Also, why are you trivializing pregnancy? Pregnancy is hard, and the social connotations associated with it don’t make things easier.

I’m not saying the physical difficulty of pregnancy is the main factor, but it does exacerbate the main issues.

And it’s not “I don’t want a baby.” It’s more “Holy [expletive], how on Earth am I going to take care of a baby?!”

 

[PassingSoul]

I grew up in a poor family, I am the 3rd of six living children from my mother. She lost three, so nine total. My mother would have given anything for those children to live. The fact that THIS hurts her emotionally (not to mention me too, I really hope to meet them one day), tells me that maternal instinct is natural, and nothing to fear. I have met women who’ve had abortions (including my own maternal grandmother, and it was against her will, I mean, it was performed without her consent) and many of the women I’ve met that have had abortions…regret it. My sister had a daughter that died when she was like ten weeks old, guess who’s the most active pro-lifer in my family? I mean, all of us ARE Pro-life, but she is by far the most involved, followed by me. Abortion is honestly that disgusts me, and I have helped other people changed their views on it. I have a friend of mine that had a miscarriage (and she was not married), she was against abortion before her pregnancy. however, a little before I met her, she identified as “pro-abortion” not “pro-choice”, “pro-abortion”. She even told me she “used to be pro-abortion”. When she lost her own child though, I think it still made it that much more real then her. It’s difficult for me to talk about, but worse for her. I don’t think she realised she wanted children until she lost one (remember, she does not support abortion). I told her “you aren’t going to BE a mother, you ARE a mother”. This is something to remember about all pregnant women. They ARE mothers, whether they lost their child or not. My father died when I was a child, but he’s still my father.

Changing people’s views is the key but so far we haven’t done a good job at it. Too many Pro-Life people think by just changing the Supreme Court, it will Magically solve the abortion issue. At best it will be a State Right Issue with Abortions being permitted in blue states and banned in red states. Abortions will continue by going out of state or performed illegally with both sides now vehemently at each other throats. The issue as you say is how do we positively change people’s views on abortion so that both sides of the issue come together. So far both sides have drawn a line in the sand on the issue.