Have you changed your mind about ABORTION?

by nicolaou 171 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  journey-on

  Fifi

  The point I was trying to make was that there are always excuses one can use to justify aborting a pregnancy.

  Skimmer used the analogy of slave owner's rights.

  Restrangled took it and used the same analogy for a mother justifying terminating a pregnancy.

  Then I took these analogies and tried to show how a government could use them to justify genocide.

  To me they all use the same heartless reasoning.

  As many, including myself, have pointed out, this is a complicated, multi-layered controversial subject.
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  ex-nj-jw

  If the father doesn't want the child, and the mother doesn't want it either -- even going to the extreme of murdering it while still in her womb -- why not give the child up for adoption

  Speaking from personal experience - there is no way I could have given up a child to adoption after carrying it 9 months, feeling it kick and move inside me. Had I gone through labor and delivery there is no way I could have given up that child. Keeping the child would have not been in it's best interest, there is no way I would have been able to properly care for the child and the child would have suffered.

  nj
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  journey-on

  Keeping the child would have not been in it's best interest, there is no way I would have been able to properly care for the child and the child would have suffered.

  In all due respect, how do you know? A more accurate way to put it would be "keeping the child would not have been in MY best interest." There's always a way to take care of a child. All they need is LOVE and sustenance and covering. That is the proper way to care for a child. Just because you can't provide the luxuries doesn't mean you're not taking care of your child. There is always a way. Many very fine people have come from the poorest of the poor.
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  ex-nj-jw

  In all due respect, how do you know

  How do I know? I know because it was MY life, I know what frame of mind I had at the time, I knew what my financial circumstances were at the time, I knew that the father would not have helped me and that I was in no position to give the love and nurture that a child needed. I'm not talking hypothetically (sp?), I'm talking from personal experience. This happened to ME! The choice was not easy by any means and I still think about that child to this day. But I don't regret it for one minute.

  You talk about someone pissing you off, how dare you question my motive for something I personally went through!

  That's why it a choice, jut because I feel one way doesn't mean you have to feel the same way. I refuse to judge people and push my opinions on someone else, maybe you should try it.

  nj
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  nicolaou

  journey-on; With all due respect, you've made your point. Is there anything else you can add without coming down so judgementally against others with a different opinion?

  In all due respect, how do you know? A more accurate way to put it would be "keeping the child would not have been in MY best interest."

  You've made your position very clear and we've listened to it.
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  nicolaou

  peace to you nj
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  journey-on

  As has everybody else. I stand by MY opinion. I'm not judging you, but you're right. It does sound like that and I apologize. We all live with our choices in life. You are absolutely 100% right. It was not MY choice to make but YOURS. We have a difference of opinion. Peace to you.
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  ex-nj-jw

  Thanks nico,

  What people don't understand is that in "most cases" it's not a decision that is made lightly. "oh i'm pregnant I'm just gonna get rid of it" and most women don't use it as birth control. It's very easy to judge someone when you have never been in that particular situation.

  I've since had 3 children, 3 full term pregnancies and 3 live births! I DO KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO RAISE A CHILD, money or no money it is physically and mentally challenging. Anyone can get goverment assistance, money is not the decision maker!

  nj
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  nicolaou

  It would have been impossible for a subject like this not to 'overheat' at some point but it gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling to see how in the end we do all care about each other.
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  eclipse

  ((((((((((((((( nj ))))))))))))))))))))

  and a hug for all those other women who did what they felt was the best decision at that time,

  because that has to be one of the most difficult choices one ever has to make.