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Q: I am pro-choice

asked by: Anne123 on June 6th, 2007

Experienced User

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to introduce myself to the pro-choice community. I have been lurking around the abortion forums, reading and learning.

I am pro-choice, and was before I found this site but didn't feel educated enough to debate yet. Still don't, I guess.

I used to think I was pro-life for myself, pro-choice for others. So, I believed abortion to be something that contradicted my personal morals but believed that other women should have the opportunity to make their own choices, in rather a pacifist manner. That was before I had actually educated myself a little.

In a university-level sexuality course I learned about the different methods of abortion, when they are performed and why. The prof even passed around medical instruments used for a d&c (unused instruments of course), etc. It was a little gross, but fascinating. The more educated I became about it the more I realized that I am pro-choice, and would be comfortable making that choice for myself.

I am most certainly pro-choice, for myself as well as others.

Just wanted to give a shout out and introduce myself properly. Thanks for the continued education! Smile

Replies(8)

Anne123

replied on June 6th, 2007

Experienced User

Oh, and forgot to mention I am a huuuge .Ani .Difranco fan!

Birch

replied on June 6th, 2007

Extremely eHealthy

Hey Anne, welcome to the forum!

I personally think that alot of women believe as you did: prolife for themselves, prochoice for others.

Then they get pregnant...

And sometimes they find out they are not so prolife after all, and make a choice they never thought they would.

Some of them decide to be honest with themselves and become prochoice. Still others perfer to hide in the dark and become staunchly prolife, either because of their experience or some other manipulative reasoning. "It was bad for me, so it's bad for everyone!" is something I've heard alot.

And I'm sure you're educated enough to debate. In fact, alot of us learn quite a bit while we are doing it. So throw yourself in the ring! Very Happy

Jincks013

replied on August 11th, 2007

Extremely eHealthy

I am wholly in favor of complete information being given: I do think that when a woman tells her doctor she is pregnant, the doctor should be required to lock her in a small room containing befouled diapers, a video of a vaginal birth, and a tape of a baby screaming for 6 hours. After that, she should have to come by and change my son's diaper at least once, he takes a great delight in peeing on whoever dares to bare his bottom. And she should have to sleep for a week in a room with a buzzer that goes off every two hours and won't turn off until she walks around with it for twenty minutes. And have a suction device attached to the area just above her nipple for two seconds so she understands the importance of paying attention while the kid breastfeeds. And when she does finally make time for herself and get dress up to go somewhere, sour milk should be poured over the front of her outfit.

flutterby24

replied on March 31st, 2008

New User

pro-choice

Im knew here and love a lot of what im reading. at the moment i an brestfeeding and typing. jincks013 i soooo agree with you, i have three wonderfull children but i mad the choice to abort when i was very young. When i had my first child i was in a shelter i was nineteen but the girls in there were 14-16. girls that were still children themselves and i could see at that point where those children would end up. If someone had made them see the reality of parenting maybe some of them would have chosen different. Saddly that would have beniffited the sitiuation for child and mother. just wanted to get my opinion in there and see how itr is recived.

eeyore46

replied on April 23rd, 2008

Experienced User

I have never been in this situation, so I can't really relate. I just believe if someone becomes pregnant, endure the 9 months, and let someone who desperately wants a child adopt the baby and give him/her a good home. There are sooo many couples that desperately want a child and cannot conceive, and are blessed with a child through adoption. But.........like I said, I have never been in the situation where I did not want my child. The debate continues, and opinions vary! Every woman has her own right to this debate!

Reptar

replied on April 24th, 2008

Experienced User

eeyore46 wrote:

All good and well, but some women don't want to endure 9 months. Some women don't want to have to take maternity leave or be sick like a dog for 8 months. Some women don't want to die giving birth, some women are just plain terrified of birth. I don't why a woman who happens to get pregnant should rent out her body, watching it become "disfigured", loosing her shape, her ability to have sex (in the later months) just because someone else can't. There are many things I am not capable of doing, but I do not wish for someone else to suffer and do it for me. I am anemic and hypoglycemic, yet I don't ask for someone elses blood so I can feel great everyday. I do what I can without infringing on anyone else.

And yeah, we can talk about adoption all we want. The fact of the matter is, no one wants over 50% of the babies that we're popping out already. If it were that easy, why would we even have foster homes to begin with? What about the children born with birth defects or autism or deformations? Do adoptive parents want those? No, the only children they want are the perfect children that come from perfect families. Most people have problems accepting their own child if they're any different than what they want, nevermind someone elses'.

eeyore46

replied on April 25th, 2008

Experienced User

Wow - Sorry, I think I am on the wrong subject forum. I also suffer from anemia, B-12 deficiency, and hypoglycemia. I do tend to disagree though, if someone else's blood would help me feel GREAT again, I would take it. I do not think blood donations are infringing on other people, that is why it is called a donation. And...............blood donations have saved a lot of lives. But again, I think I will move on to another forum. I am sorry if I have offended anyone, that was certainly not my intention.

Reptar

replied on April 26th, 2008

Experienced User

eeyore46 wrote:

You didn't offend me, but you just said it yourself. A blood donation is a DONATION. Women who choose to go ahead with a pregnancy chose to donate their body to the well being of their soon to be baby. But we don't force any women who goes into a hospital to give blood, nor do we force any person who has extra blood to spare or who gets into an accident and happens to be conveniently already in the hospital to give blood. It's always a choice. And even regardless of that, to even be slightly comparable to what a pregnant women goes through, you'd have to have the blood "donater" hooked up to you for nine months straight. Pregnancy is not a one time 5 minute donation kind of thing. And it also should be a choice, just like saving a life via blood donation is.

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