Once more on abortion....

Published on February 12, 2005 By lifehappens In Current Events

This article Link brought to mind an article I wrote before about abortion.

When does a baby deserve the right to live? 40 weeks gestation? What if they can be considered "viable" and have a chance for survival at say...26 weeks?

I still don't think that anything could personnally make me want to get an abortion myself. I waited, miserable with fear that I couldn't have children, for nearly 3 years before I had my first child. But, I've never been pregnant after a rape.... I can empathize with the mental anguish that a woman could go through. I'd never begrudge her the choice. I'd never refuse a woman's right to choose. I don't know what they are going through. I don't want to quibble over...well, IF she had a terminal disease or IF she was going to die because of complications AND she had other kids to care for.....That just opens the door for legislation that would allow one woman in desperation the option and not another who is not "enough" at risk.

That being said. I disagree with abortion. I think it is horrible and wrong. I think that using abortion as birth control is heinous. i think it shows a disregard for the gift of life. A gift from God. Even if you disagree with the religious aspect....it is still destroying a child. Argue definitions and semantics all you want, but if children can survive at 26 weeks or less....(earliest birth that survived was 20 weeks-so far) I have to say that abortion should not be allowed after that point. Because at that point....there is no way of denying that it's destroying a life.

Now that I have pissed off the pro-choice and the right to live crowds, let me back up and point something out. I think abortion at any point is wrong, but if I had an ectopic pregnancy, I'd end it. Technically, it's still a life, but there is no way I could carry that baby far enough through pregnancy for either of us to survive..So I have to allow for the option to choose.

I also believe strongly in free choice. God gave us the unaliable right to choose. Even if someone holds a gun to your head, you still have that right. No one can take it away. I believe that a choice to end another's life is between you and God. I'd kill you to protect my kids. And that choice would be made between me and God. i'd take the consequenses, but that choice is mine. So as distasteful and vile as abortion is....I have to allow others a choice. They are the ones who will be held accountable.

So where does that leave me? I support teaching children about abortion...teaching that it is a last resort, for extreme situations, not birth control. Teaching abstinance. (yes I know kids drink/have sex etc but ENCOURAGING IT IS WRONG) Giving our tax money to support programs that offset costs of adoption and promote monogamous lifestyles instead of abortion clinics. Private dollars can support women's birth control abortions. If someone is desperate, they will find a way get or borrow the money....but I'm not in favor of passing my tax dollars out for repeat offenders.....

Comments (Page 2)

butterflytuddles

on Feb 17, 2005

"... I think that using abortion as birth control is heinous. i think it shows a disregard for the gift of life. A gift from God. Even if you disagree with the religious aspect....it is still destroying a child."

i wonder if those chicks that are using abortion as a form of birth control actually know what they are doing to their wombs? Everytime a fetus is aborted your insides are scraped out causing irrevokable damage:

Suction-Aspiration: In this method, the cervical muscle ring must be paralyzed and stretched open. The abortionist then inserts a hollow plastic tube with a knife-like edge into the uterus. The suction tears the fetus into pieces. The placenta is cut from the uterine wall and everything is sucked into a bottle.

Dilation and Curettage (D and C): This is similar to a suction procedure except a curette, a loop-shaped steel knife is inserted into the uterus. The fetus and placenta are cut into pieces and scraped out into a basin. Bleeding is usually very heavy with this method.

(taken from: http://www.abortionfacts.com/)

after just one abortion your chances of getting pregnant again are severely minimised with those odds becoming greater the more often the proceedure is done.

now believe it or not but I have had a D&C abortion in the bathtub of a friends house when i was very young. I now no longer know whether i can present my future husband (whomever he is!) with a child. But that is my lot. Regardless of this, or maybe because of it, I am pro-life...

we live in a day and age when birth control options are far and away better and more readily available then they have ever been. okay so you don't want to take a small tablet in the morning? get a diaphragm or a lunelle injection! it's not rocket science...

*shrugs*

amba (Annie Gottlieb)

on Mar 09, 2005

I so agree, and I have written out a very similar 'pro (early) choice but anti-abortion position in an essay on my blog -- the AmbivAbortion rant on AmbivaBlog. (I don't think this comment feature accepts URLs, but it should be easy to find.)

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messybuu

on Mar 09, 2005

I still don't understand why abortion is wrong if it isn't murder. Unlike kids drinking and having sex, abortion endangers nobody but the woman who's having the abortion, and she's an adult, so she knows the dangers. If anything, it's not nearly as bad as drinking or smoking. It's on the same level as masturbation.

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