So, you are lazy to answer a simple question… you would rather make me waste countless hours upon hours searching for your words of wisdom (or lack thereof)… nah. can’t you just answer a simple question for me… do you personally think its morally wrong to terminate a pregnancy at any stage?
You appear smart, you can do that for me in one sentence, right? Thanks!
**I can’t make you do anything you don’t want to do, Michael. You’re a volunteer.
The question you ask in this post is not at all the question you asked in the previous post, the one about which you are casting stones and claiming I’m “lazy”. Believe me, if I were lazy I couldn’t take on ten or twenty posters 24/7 for weeks on end.
Now, as to this particular question: " … do you personally think its morally wrong to terminate a pregnancy at any stage?", my answer is this:
I got pregnant at age 18 due to ignorance and a search for someone to actually care about me. I aborted the fetus at 13 weeks. I understood that I was not cultivating a cabbage in my uterus. I had been exposed to Roman Catholicism from birth until I left home; however, conception, birth, family life, birth control, abstinence, abortion, sexuality in general were absolutely never** discussed in my family of origin. We did not speak of these things.
My mother and father gave four children the best lives they could. We all had our First Holy Communions and we were all confirmed. We all went to public schools but attended CCD classes every Saturday morning. Our parents’ MO was “don’t raise the question and we won’t have to answer it.” My father was old enough to be my grandfather; he was stern, strict, devoted to Jesus and Mary, and a full-blown but functioning alcoholic. Out of the four kids, three became alcoholic. The same three were involved in too many illegal activities to list here - there were multiple arrests, trouble with the FBI, trouble with drug trafficking, trouble with firearms and explosives - the list goes on and on. Remember, these were four kids steeped in Catholicism. Among the four there were three abortions, all before Roe. We have endured rape, pre-adolescent sexual assault, battery, abandonment. There have been two divorces among us, and one brother who is now 52 never married because he never saw real love in action and doesn’t know how the song goes. We were not equipped to enter adulthood on any level.
You want to know about my morality? I had little practical morality when I left home and was filling in the blanks of life and making decisions based on what I thought I needed at the time. When my abortion rolled around I had very little feeling about it, as I was long removed from myself. I also suffer mental illness which was not diagnosed until 18 years after the abortion. I have been medicated now for 21 years but it has not changed my judgment or my view of what is moral and what is not.
If my abortion was immoral I’m certain God will have plenty to say about it when I die and meet Him face to face. The fact that it took place before Roe may have some bearing on His view of the event, but that was a legal consideration and you are primarily interested in the moral consideration, are you not? Therefore, I can honestly say that I have to wait and see what God has to say about my abortion. He alone understands the depth of illness and abuse and suffering that ramped up to the procedure. Extenuating circumstances? Who knows?
As to whether or not another woman’s abortion is immoral, that is not for me to say. Currently it is legal, so she will not have to face the double infraction penalty that I may be facing.
It’s unnecessary and even a tad gauche to accuse me of laziness. Your attitude personifies one of the many reasons that I divorced myself from others’ opinions long ago. Moods swing, sometimes I get offended on the outside; but the worst part of it is that the only true lasting effect your vindictiveness has is that it confirms that I was right when I concluded that people are generally so much less than they could be and should be avoided at all costs.
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