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June 15th, 2009
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Interesting. I understand that you regret not having a child, but don't be conned into thinking that the embryo inside your uterus was in any way a "baby". If you want to feel bad, feel bad because you could've had a child. Not because you felt like you terminated an embryo. If you wanted a kid, why did you just have one when you wanted one? Why all the regret? (unless you're sterile).


The embryo/fetus inside a woman would be the exact same entity when born. DNA would be exactly the same. Genetics would be the same. That embryo/fetus is biologically hers AND the father's. A child born comes from the uterus not from an embryo or fetus. No one hatched from an embryo or fetus. EVERYONE born already used to be an embryo or fetus. The definitons of an embryo or fetus is unborn young. What is the young? In humans, it is children! We have to start somewhere. We only develop and grow from conception. Nothing new is added to us. Our species does not change.
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replied June 15th, 2009
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lol I don't get the logic in telling a woman who views her unborn child as a baby that it the unborn child was not a baby.
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replied July 12th, 2009
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Bigboybry, those are tough words coming from someone who could never be pregnant- a male I presume. Some women who get abortions should never ever be mommies and we should all rejoice that they don't spawn and would probably be just another Andrea Yates, not ALL women are. You don't know why every woman gets an abortion but nobody should be forced into parenthood by conception, male or female just that women get to abort the spawn while men get to walk away and deny the spawn. Some women who have babies DO become like the likes of Andrea Yates and kill mercilessly, all of her innocent children. Would you raher these people have children and molest, abuse, kill, mistreat, starve or neglect them? Resent them even? Children need love like all other huan beings at every stage of their lives and some people simply can't love babies or children ad a career or education at the time or ever for that matter. They just don't have the ability so they need abortions.
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replied July 12th, 2009
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Some women have abortions because they realised the ejaculating apen who fathered the sperm-omelet is a waste-of-oxygen craptastic loser whose DNA needs to be wiped from the planet. Is that what happened to you, bigboy?
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replied July 12th, 2009
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I have zero regrets for aborting and I will do it again in a New York minute if my contraception fails and I conceive again. I don't give a fat rat's behind what some meathead on the internet thinks about me. I know I did not do anything wrong.
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replied July 13th, 2009
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Bigboybry, those are tough words coming from someone who could never be pregnant- a male I presume. Some women who get abortions should never ever be mommies and we should all rejoice that they don't spawn and would probably be just another Andrea Yates, not ALL women are. You don't know why every woman gets an abortion but nobody should be forced into parenthood by conception, male or female just that women get to abort the spawn while men get to walk away and deny the spawn. Some women who have babies DO become like the likes of Andrea Yates and kill mercilessly, all of her innocent children. Would you raher these people have children and molest, abuse, kill, mistreat, starve or neglect them? Resent them even? Children need love like all other huan beings at every stage of their lives and some people simply can't love babies or children ad a career or education at the time or ever for that matter. They just don't have the ability so they need abortions.


No, they need the chance to get permanently sterilized. Sterilization should be easier to obtain for those who feel they need them. Especially for those who hate children and have the potential to hate their own.

By the way, if these type of women do for some reason give birth and keep the child, there is no excuse whatsoever to abuse, neglect or kill that child. You can't do that to anybody else. It's against the law. Hating someone doesn't give anyone the right to hurt them. If they have the potential to mistreat their own children by abusing, netlecting, or even killing them, they also have the potential to do the same to ANYONE or ANYTHING they resent or don't love (certain family members, pets, other people's children, etc.) That's why they should really consider sterilization, because there is no guarantee they would have an abortion anyway. The less people they hurt, the better. Some women who hate kids still have them even with abortion being legal. Sterilization should be encouraged for these type of people (men or women).
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replied July 13th, 2009
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No, they need the chance to get permanently sterilized. Sterilization should be easier to obtain for those who feel they need them. Especially for those who hate children and have the potential to hate their own.

By the way, if these type of women do for some reason give birth and keep the child, there is no excuse whatsoever to abuse, neglect or kill that child. You can't do that to anybody else. It's against the law. Hating someone doesn't give anyone the right to hurt them. If they have the potential to mistreat their own children by abusing, netlecting, or even killing them, they also have the potential to do the same to ANYONE or ANYTHING they resent or don't love (certain family members, pets, other people's children, etc.) That's why they should really consider sterilization, because there is no guarantee they would have an abortion anyway. The less people they hurt, the better. Some women who hate kids still have them even with abortion being legal. Sterilization should be encouraged for these type of people (men or women).
While I would love to see elective sterilization done for ANYONE of ages 18+, I doubt it will happen. I had to fight tooth and nail to have an elective sterilization done on myself and I have HEALTH issues, including a history of preterm delivery. So, until doctors view women (and men sometimes)as being smart enough and knowing themselves enough to know what they want (or need), elective sterilization will still be hard to come by. There are some doctors that will do it if you ask, but they are few and far to come by. And please, not every woman who does not wish to breed hates children. Not every person who hates children would abuse a child. And it is possible to resent or regret someone without hating or abusing them. Don't get me wrong, I do believe any woman who resents or regrets her child is unfit to parent, but it does not make her an abuser. And don't forget some women are coerced to NOT abort, thus their pregnancy options end and their parenting options begin. I think any woman who was forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy would feel at least a little resentment and regret. Yet it doesn't necessarily mean she hates the child she bore, heck she could even love that child very much. If it is possible to regret an abortion and still love the fetus or embryo you aborted, then it is also possible to regret having a child at the time (wishing you could give your child more things...but don't have enough money...that could be considered a type of regret, wishing you had waited, that is a type of regret)you did and still love that child. I think BOTH sides of the debate need to have a bit of compassion...not every woman who aborts is a cruel, hating, mean, unloving, psycho monster....and not every woman who chooses to NOT abort is a crazy, breederbrained, holier-than-tho queen bee mommy. I just wish the prolife (at least most of them) side could understand the REASONS behind abortion are not just social...they are emotional, situational, personal and sometimes medical as well. And sometimes ALL OF THE ABOVE.
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replied August 16th, 2010
Who does abortion hurt? Everyone.
I had an abortion when I was hardly 16 years old, in fact i had only been 16 for about 2 months. I regret it everyday, it was a decision I made in fear and through irrational thinking because of my age and lack of maturity.
I wouldnt wish the pain I feel upon my worst enemy, i was found to have depression and now must seek intensive counselling, due to my depression I missed out on alot of things with my friends, I can no longer go to dances or have fun without feeling guilty and have become extremely unhealthy in my habits.
The fact of the matter is, and this is coming from a scientific point of view which you can research on the internet if you'd like, ANYONE under 20 years of age or possibly even more is incapable of fully understanding the consequence of their action due to the frontal lobe (which proccesses ALL emotions and decisions linked to making the choice of abortion) is simply not fully developed. Is this to say that they're incapable of making decisions? Of course not, this cannot be used as an excuse to murder someone, break the law, it is not a matter of them not knowing what they are doing but rather not understanding the full ramifications of these actions after the fact.
We live in a world where you cannot drink legally until the age of 19 (in canada) or 21 in the states. You can't even get a simple, non life-threatening ear piercing until 18 in most parts of canada without your parents signature! you can't drive until 16, heck you cant even drive past midnight in NB until you're 18 years old!
And what is the reasoning for these laws? Because anyone under 19 or 21 isnt "responsible" enough to understand the full ramifications of drinking too much according to the government. Because you cannot make informed decisions about an ear piercing until 18. Because you cannot possibly understand the severity of driving irraticaly until 16. After midnight, if you're under 18 you simply cannot be trusted on the roads. It ALL goes back to lack of understanding, lack of judgement and lack of emotional equipability.
Therefore i'm wondering why I, not even 2 months after my 16th birthday, was able to get an abortion, or in other words; go to a hospital, be put under medication, have my legs put into stirrups while a doctor medically ripped a child out of my uterus. IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE. these girls are too young to understand what they are truly doing. The sense of panic and fear, of what people at school would think, what their boyfriend will think of their new shape and what relatives will say over power their already non-developed ability to make conscience decisions and understand that they are ending a pregnancy.
The number of cases where women regret an abortion is incredible. this is a procedure that has only been legally allowed for a little over 20 years, here anyway. Just like anything else, we are now just discovering the ramifications of abortion and I hope that these surface by the time I'm old so young girls don;t have to go through the torture I did.
Post Abortion Stress Syndrom is a real thing, ask the girls who go through it and the psychologists who treat them.
No 13 - 18 year old girl deserves to cry over the death of their child, the trauma associated with the procedure, the lies told to them by those urging her to have the abortion and the constent resentment of pregnant women, children and anything else that reminds them of this catastrophe.
Teenagers should be exploring life, making friends and preparing themselves for life. not wishing they had children, not dealing with depression.
100 years ago people of color werent considered people either. I bet had there been internet there would have been people debating about their status as a human being too. Probably the same filthy people who sit here and lobby to murder innocent fetus's. But now how stupid do those people look? people of color are now welcomed people of society, personally being of white descent im disgusted with the ways my ancestors acted.
I'm pro-life because someday when my grandchildren talk of how disgusting it was to consider a fetus non-human, simply because you cannot see it beneath the skin of the women carrying it, I'll proudly be able to say that I was no part of that and despite the fact that I had an abortion i havent stopped fighting since and my unborn child will never go unforgotten.
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replied August 16th, 2010
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Therefore i'm wondering why I, not even 2 months after my 16th birthday, was able to get an abortion, or in other words; go to a hospital, be put under medication, have my legs put into stirrups while a doctor medically ripped a child out of my uterus. IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE.
First off, I am sorry you regret your abortion. However, it was a choice YOU made, maybe a misinformed choice, but you MADE that choice. It makes PERFECT sense to allow a competent sixteen year old freedom in making her own medical decisions, if she is of sound mind. I know quite a few sixteen year olds who have had abortions and not many of them regret it. It says something about your whole "frontal lobe" development. Using that as an excuse is wrong. Sure, your frontal lobe may not be fully developed, but SURELY you realized that sex CAN and SOMETIMES does result in pregnancy. Therefore, unless you were taught abstinence or misinformed about the consequences of sex, you should have KNOWN that unprotected sex (heck, even protected sex, in many cases) CAN and DOES lead to unwanted/unintended pregnancies. You may have been misinformed about abortions, but in reality, in this day and age, it is so simple, as simple as a click and scroll, to garner information that you need. Also, it is (was) YOUR responsibility to make sure that you knew the aspects of YOUR medical treatment. That means that while the doctor or nurse providing you the treatment was required to inform you of risks and such, it was YOUR responsibility to ask ANY questions that pertained to your medical treatment.

FYI, no doctor medically RIPS anything out of anyone's uterus. The procedure you most likely had was a D&C, where the contents of your uterus (including the embryo/fetus)were scraped (and gently scraped at that, as the uterus is a delicate organ) out of you.

And as an end-post, what gives YOU the right to decide that abortion MUST be wrong, vile, evil, whatever, just because YOU regret the CHOICE YOU MADE? I am so sorry that abortion was the wrong choice for YOU, but it is not the wrong choice for MANY others who have exercised their right to that choice.
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replied August 16th, 2010
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Teenagers should be exploring life, making friends and preparing themselves for life. not wishing they had children, not dealing with depression.
NO teen should ever wish they had NOT had children, either. Having the responsibility of caring for a child CAN and DOES cause depression, too. Having to make the decision of giving up a child you have bonded with for NINE months CAN and DOES cause depression, too. NO TEEN, just because of someone else's personal opinion against abortion, should be FORCED to carry that pregnancy to term and either be forced to give it up for adoption or forced to parent it. Life is choices.
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replied August 16th, 2010
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It ALL goes back to lack of understanding, lack of judgement and lack of emotional equipability.
I am gonna call you on the BS card there, being a teen mom myself (17). I was VERY well informed and TOTALLY understood, comprehended, and had the "emotional equipment" to make a rational decision in regards to my "whoopsie". I chose, after CAREFULLY considering EACH option (parenting, adoption AND abortion), parenting, because unlike most teens my age, I had a stable job, GREAT grades, and had my own place, and the father of my child (now my husband)and I had (and still have) a stable, loving, and supportive relationship. If I was in any other situation, I may have more seriously considered abortion or adoption. You make teenagers sound as if they were or are incapable of making rational decisions, which is just plain wrong.
This frontal lobe study (I looked it up) had NOTHING to do with teens being able to make informed, rational decisions and having the ability to foresee consequences of each decision ("Smoking crack can kill me, so I won't do it"...that right there shows reasoning and foresight and many teens choose not to do drugs, knowing the consequences...another example, "I will not have unprotected sex because I know it can lead to STD/STIs or an unwanted pregnancy", I myself, have said that and understood, granted my birth control failed). The study on frontal lobes of teens and the development, or lackthereof, had more to do with the way a teen perceives CRIMINAL matters, not the way they see medical or peer, family, etc, matters. The study primarily focused on the pressure from teens on other teens to commit to "thrill killings" or group muggings/robberies, a far cry from a legal medical abortion.
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No 13 - 18 year old girl deserves to cry over the death of their child, the trauma associated with the procedure, the lies told to them by those urging her to have the abortion and the constent resentment of pregnant women, children and anything else that reminds them of this catastrophe.
What makes me the most sad about your situation is that you ADMITTEDLY RESENT other pregnant women and children due to the CHOICE YOU MADE. In all honesty, a bit of counselling would do you good. It is unhealthy to harbor resentment over perfect strangers, and even more unhealthy to use a choice you made as an excuse for your resentment.

No 13-18 year old deserves to cry over the death of their child, you are right. But no 13-18 year old deserves to be forced into carrying a pregnancy that could be dangerous to them (carrying a pregnancy to term, and then delivering, especially if you are not fully physically developed, has more risks than having an abortion, and yes, more of these risks are life-threatening).

You say you were lied to about the traumatic side effects of abortion, as well as the trauma of the procedure. You seem quite literate and appear to have access to the internet. Part of YOUR responsibility was to MAKE SURE you knew what was involved. You cannot possibly convince me that you were not smart enough to THINK and research an option you were considering. You say you were urged to abort, but no one held a gun to your head, did they? This is why I am pro-choice. I SUPPORT EACH CHOICE regarding pregnancy or parenting and personally do NOT care what choice you or any other girl/woman makes.

Just like you can say no to sex, you can also say no to abortion or any other choice regarding YOUR body. This, in turn, does NOT give YOU the right to dictate how others should choose, in regards to THEIR bodies. That is the wonderful thing about pro-choice, the freedom to choose.

Once again, you exercised your right to free choice, let others do the same.
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replied August 16th, 2010
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How about we just treat women like the human beings they are and respect their intelligence enough to let them make their own decisions and mistakes. There's a novel idea.

Oh, wait...prolifers don't really see PEOPLE when they look at women, do they? At best, they see mature bodies endowed with a child's mind, to be used as chattel for reproduction.

How else would you explain the constant infantilizing of grown women? They lie through their teeth, manipulate, patronize and even intimidate women to keep them in check and ensure they don't make a reproductive decision they disagree with.

The hypocritical twits that make poor decisions for themselves and then turn around and try to take that choice from other women are the worst ones of all.

Not every woman is a weak-willed, wishy-washy fool that thinks no woman should have a choice just because she made the wrong one for herself.

Own up to your own decision and leave the rest of us alone. We don't need men to babysit us just because you lack a mind of your own.
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replied August 17th, 2010
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"Abortionhurts" - I'm sorry you regret your abortion but I disagree with some of the things you have written. I was 19 when I had my abortion and I was fully informed and aware of what I was doing. I haven't once regretted that decision.

With regard to why people are unable to drink yet consent to medical procedures this is to do with the rights to have control over treatments done to oneself - it would be unfair if parents were allowed to consent (or not) to medical procedures for someone capable of making their own decision. Alcohol (here 1Cool is a social problem, hence having restrictive laws, making the decision to abort is personal.

There is something called 'Gillick competence' here which decides whether minors are able to make decisions about medical treatment themselves. That is if someone under 18 is able to understand the risks of a procedure (not just abortion), the potential outcomes, intended outcomes, any possible side effects, the likely outcomes should one not have the procedure then they are able to make the decision themselves.

I know a foetus is human. It isn't a person which is a different matter but I don't "lobby" for abortion. I simply believe that women have the right to make their own decisions about whether or not they want to continue a pregnancy. Just because you regretted yours doesn't mean other people do - you don't have the right to take away the choices of others simply because it didn't work out for you. You made your decision and it may not have been right for you but what makes you think YOUR bad decision means it's more important than other people's?
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replied August 28th, 2010
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AbortionHurts wrote:
I had an abortion when I was hardly 16 years old, in fact i had only been 16 for about 2 months. I regret it everyday, it was a decision I made in fear and through irrational thinking because of my age and lack of maturity.

I am sorry to hear that you regret your decision. I hope you manage to find some relief for your pain and to start feeling better about things. Abortion is not the right choice for everyone. However you must realise it was your choice and therefore your responsibility alone. You cannot place the blame on anyone else, as at the end of the day, you made that decision yourself.
As sorry as I feel for women who abort and regret, my heart also goes out to women who find themselves pregnant and desperately do not want to be pregnant, or to parent. Parenting is a massive responsibility that no-one should be forced into.
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Therefore i'm wondering why I, not even 2 months after my 16th birthday, was able to get an abortion, or in other words; go to a hospital, be put under medication, have my legs put into stirrups while a doctor medically ripped a child out of my uterus.


So you believe that this decision should be removed from older women who ARE capable and responsible enough to actually make that decision too?
And as MOHSO pointed out, you have access to the internet and to doctors, you were fully capable of educating yourself about EXACTLY what would happen before, during and after the abortion process and what was involved. You were fully capable of asking questions about anything you felt you were unsure on, and insisting open honest answers to your questions beforehand. In short, you were fully capable of making an informed choice.
I am sorry to hear that you believe the doctors deliberately lied and mislead you, but in my opinion, if you are making a decision as important as whether or not to abort, you should never make that decision without being fully aware of the facts. Sorry to say it but if you made that choice without fully informing yourself, then that is again your lookout.
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IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE. these girls are too young to understand what they are truly doing. The sense of panic and fear, of what people at school would think, what their boyfriend will think of their new shape and what relatives will say over power their already non-developed ability to make conscience decisions and understand that they are ending a pregnancy.


If they are too young to make a conscious decision about abortion, they are too young in my opinion to make a fully informed decision as to whether or not they can take on the responsibilities of a parent.
Parenting brings with it massive responsibilities. No-one should be forced into parenting if they do not want to, and in my opinion, no-one should go into parenting without full understanding and acceptance of the responsibilities and hard work involved. In my opinion, people who are still children themselves are going to have a hard time adapting to suddenly having the responsibility of a child on their hands.
Contrary to what you might think, teens are not all incapable of making informed decisions, and are not incapable of deciding what is best for them. Yes, some make the wrong choice and regret it, but it is vital that they as people are allowed to make that important potentially life-changing choice themselves, and not to be influenced by other people.
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The number of cases where women regret an abortion is incredible.

And the number of women who DON'T regret is even greater. The only reason you don't hear so many stories about women who don't regret is because they are happy with their decision, don't need support, and also don't feel the need to justify their decision to the world.

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this is a procedure that has only been legally allowed for a little over 20 years, here anyway. Just like anything else, we are now just discovering the ramifications of abortion and I hope that these surface by the time I'm old so young girls don;t have to go through the torture I did.
Post Abortion Stress Syndrom is a real thing, ask the girls who go through it and the psychologists who treat them.


No-one here is denying that post-abortion syndrome exists. There are, and always will be women who DO regret their choice to abort, but there will also always be women who regret their decision to become a parent too young.
I strongly agree with MOHSO here, that whilst you may feel abortion is vile and disgusting and wrong, there are many other women out there who would disagree with you, women for whom abortion was a complete godsend. They should not be denied their ability to choose purely because some women who aborted felt they made the wrong choice.

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the constent resentment of pregnant women

You should not allow your regret of your decision to influence your attitude towards other people. You resent them for being happy when you aren't? What have THEY done to upset you?
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Teenagers should be exploring life, making friends and preparing themselves for life.


And not having to look after a child. Having children ties you down and removes a lot of your freedom to do all the above. Teenagers are still children themselves and many are not ready for the responsibilities a child would bring.

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100 years ago people of color werent considered people either.


The suffering of a non-sentient, non-feeling, twelve-week fetus is in no way even comparible to the suffering which was experienced by sentient, living, breathing people, capable of feeling intense pain, and in my opinion, attempting such a comparison is shameful.

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I'm pro-life because someday when my grandchildren talk of how disgusting it was to consider a fetus non-human, simply because you cannot see it beneath the skin of the women carrying it, I'll proudly be able to say that I was no part of that and despite the fact that I had an abortion i havent stopped fighting since and my unborn child will never go unforgotten.

I'm pro-choice because it is in my opinion disgusting to deny women rights to their own body just because some people in society choose to see them as merely a life-support system for a fetus. And I will gladly say to any descendents I have that I am proud not to have been part of the movement to suppress women and remove their control and rights over their own body and choices.
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replied August 28th, 2010
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I know a foetus is human. It isn't a person which is a different matter but I don't "lobby" for abortion. I simply believe that women have the right to make their own decisions about whether or not they want to continue a pregnancy. Just because you regretted yours doesn't mean other people do - you don't have the right to take away the choices of others simply because it didn't work out for you. You made your decision and it may not have been right for you but what makes you think YOUR bad decision means it's more important than other people's?


I completely agree. Your regret for your decision should not be allowed to affect other people's choice. If I had a child and regretted it, does that mean I have the right to come on here and beg and demand that all pregnant women abort and that no one ever has children again, just because having children was the wrong decision for me? Of course not.
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replied June 16th, 2011
I had 2 abortions within 6 months of each other at 24/25. When growing up I never would have imagined that this would happen to me... but I guess life takes unexpected twists and turns. I do regret my decisions but also can look back with some compassion for myself. At 24 even though in theory I should have been mature enough to handle having a baby, I really under-estimated myself and felt I couldn't do it. My partner through a phone book at me and told me to 'get rid of it'. I told my mum I thought I was pregnant and her reply was 'you better not be'. I was overwhelmed so the next day told my mum it was just a scare and had now come on my period. I hadn't of course...but felt I had to be secretive. I had the abortion. Looking back I had no medical support before hand and was ill-informed of the choice I was making. I had no counselling support offered and became anxious afterwards. I convinced myself I might now be infertile and also convinced myself I wanted to try again. 6 months later I became pregnant again. Again all the anxieties I had the first time around resurfaced leading me to regretably make the same decision again. I could understand people questioning - how could you do it twice?...but I homestly think women need counselling after an abortion and if you don't have counselling anxiety can effect the decisions you make.

6 years later I had a planned pregnancy and miscarried...it devastated me and bought back all the grief and emotion of the decisions I made in my 20s. I do regret my decision and wish there was more psychological support for women before hand as anxiety can make you make rushed decisions. I don't feel good about what I did...I just send love to all women in a similar decision and pray you make the right decision for yourselves and don't be afraid to ask for help before making your decision.
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replied March 1st, 2012
Abortion is a right of any woman, but it can be a weapon against us.
I am pregnant and I actually want the baby. The father wants to get rid of it, and in his mind that fact that I can have an abortion means I have to.
My mother - yes, my mother - told me that being a single mom will ruin my life and my career, and she does not understand why I haven't terminated the pregnancy yet.
Nobody seems to care that I do not want to terminate my pregnancy, and abortion is the excuse not to help me. Why am I asking for help when I can solve all my problems with an abortion?
I have always been PRO-ABORTION, for me was a fundamental right of women. But now I am seeing the other side of the coin: as society violated woman's body with unwanted pregnancy, also inducing to abortion is a violation of women's rights and a disrespect of our body.
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replied August 14th, 2012
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You forgot to mention that RV is a Catholic anti choice organisation. I would suggest people seek out a qualified counsellor/therapist....your family doctor should be able to refer you to one.
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replied August 16th, 2012
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I don't care if women from all denominations are welcome, it's still a Catholic organisation and it's not a qualified counselling centre with unbiased professionals on board. If I need my appendix out, would I let wannabe doctors do it? No way.
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replied September 16th, 2012
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if you are truly sorry for your actions! you can ask for god for forgiveness, he will forgive for he loves you very much,i pray that you will find peace and happines
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