Abortion...

by Lostreality 215 Replies latest jw friends

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  Cassiline

  Dammit sorry for the three posts in a row, I am having a difficult time getting my entire post to appear.
  

  I have two girls, one 18 and the other 15. Both are on the pill and will remain that way until they leave my home. I believe much of this problem lies with a parent and education, period. My girls are not sexually active, but if they do decide to become so then they are 99.999 percent protected. I would like to think 100 percent given they both are schooled on condom use and the horrors of diesase as well and have assured me that nothing will happen unless the guy is wearing a rain coat.

  Cassi
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  TRUTH SEEKER

  I am pro-choice. It is a horrible choice to have to make and I don't believe it should be made lightly.
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  Mulan

  I kind of feel the same as Odrade. I don't like the idea that a woman gets an abortion, as a means of birth control, but for rape, or serious birth defects, like the one she mention, I'm glad it's an option.

  I'm not sure I could ever have done it, but I sure do support the right to choose. I won't choose either side for anyone. If it were to come up in my family, I would tell them it is their choice and I would support it 100%. (and I have)
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  Crazy151drinker

  Pro-choice.

  I'll even take it one step farther- Teach REAL sex ed in schools and hand out Free Birth Control.
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  neverthere

  I am very pro choice, I underwent the proceedure many many years ago back when you were supposed to go before a board of Docs to have it done for non med reasons. The doc I saw put it down to med reasons. I do not regret my choice and if I ever found myself in that same situation again I would do it again. I was 16, a newly recovering drug addict and with a person (though I did end up marrying him, having 2 kids then divorcing him) who was not stable enough to have kids (yes I realize the irony of my other bracketed sentence!).

  Bottom line is I did not use it as birth control, I had used the pill but because of coming down of the narcotics it did not work.

  Diana, not regretting at least one choice
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  Obviously Secret

  Im a dude. I myself am gonna wait till married or engaged before having sex. That's just me personal, I try not to hate on anybody who does it differently cause it's not my business.

  I know this isn't in all cases but a lot of cases girls just end up getting pregnant because of some guy they wanted to please or they wanted to releive a little stress. And then start crying out to the world about being pregnant; the boyfriend won't support the baby, the family won't support the baby yada yada yada. In that situation I feel that the mother shouldn't get an abortion.

  I really do feel that in rape cases and birth defects that it should be pro-choice then. But if you were just freaky one day and messed up, gotta deal with the conciquences. But I'm not president lol. If I was president I'd make it pro-choice for every situation just so there wouldn't be an uproar of the people.
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  CeriseRose

  I could never abort my own baby...however I say that while not facing a pregnancy that is risky to myself, or would end in death to the child anyway, etc. So sitting from where I am, for myself, it's pretty clear, but that could change based on circumstances. What I could never do, is allow someone else to make that decision for me. That's the point of choice...not that the choice is always to abort, but that there's the freedom to look at options.

  I'm not trying to throw a lot of extraneous information in here, but to parallel...what people forget is that prostitution, whether legal or not, happens. Abortion, legal or not, happens. Drug use, legal or not, happens. Not to be extremely liberal here, at least the difference when you legalize such things, is that you have a measure of control and offer safety to those involved. (i.e. we have a safe needle clinic in my city, to ensure that the people who are 'partaking' of illegal substances will not contract diseases from dirty needles.) Abortion clinics, while I personally don't like that they exist, are a much better alternative to a knitting needle, bleeding out, etc.

  In a perfect world, there would be no need for abortion or measures around drugs/prostitution etc., because everyone would be educated, and be able to have access to the proper safety measures, birth control, etc. Right now that's not the case, so why penalize those who grow up disadvantaged, uneducated, abused etc. Why perpetuate the cycle?

  My 2 cents. Actually more like 4.
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  frankiespeakin

  OB,

  I think you need to not be so judgemental in this about teenagers having sex.
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  Lostreality

  OB, I see your point of view, and respect it. I myself, have chosen to have sex before getting married. It has cause many problems for my girlfriend and I. Aside from it feeling amazing (for both of us i hope ) It also presented a couple problems regarding pregnancy. She is VERY VERY VERYYYYYY Pro life. The type of pro lifer who carries around a folder of pictures of aborted fetus's, just to try and make pro choicers feel bad. The first few times we had sex, she was on the pill. We tried condoms, but she didnt like the way they felt, and i could bearly feel a thing, so we ditched that idea. She went on Depo. A birthcontrol that stops the egg from coming out. Stopping her period, and 99.9% of her getting pregnant. One shot of Depo lasted 3 months. Bad side? Of course there is! Major weight gain. She has fought it off for thepast 3 months, and im not letting her go on it again, because she doesnt like it.

  We've had preganancy scares, where she took an ECP, and cried for hours about it, even though it was her choice. We've had spotting, (instead of one, one week period, its small spots of blood, at random points in the month.) But to this point, she isnt pregnant.

  Teenage sex is very ...different. Scary almost. Needless to say, you chose a wise path, with the waiting thing. Physical satisfaction, is not on par with maturity..or something, i dont know, i just got off work.
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  Lehaa

  Me persolally for myself i am totally againts abortion, even it there was something wrong with the child or I'd been raped.(not the kids fault that their father is a jerk)

  I personally think that abortion is to readily used as a means of contraception.

  Both of my kids were planned so i've never been in the position to even have to think of it.

  A friend of mine got his partner pregnant and they'd decided to get an abortion, they had it all booked in and even turned up for the apointment. Then in the waiting room he just decided that he could not do it, could not kill his child. He decide that even if she did not want it that he would look after it on his own. They are now married with two beautiful boys. There marriage at times is rocky and his wife oes not cope at times, but he is there for them all and plays a huge part in the day today caring of his children.

  My view is is you are not prppared to raise a kid then don't do it ao be really careful. Know of some couples that use two and three means of conptaception.

  I am aware that there are cases where if a woman is raped and can't stand the thought of carrying the child and the psycholigical damage that that would do to her.

  There is also the option of adoption. There are a lot of people on waiting lists to adopt children, some wait for years simply because there is not enough babies available for adoption.

  Just my thoughts on the subject anyway.

  Lehaa.