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hoodie -> RE: The Deviding Issue-Palin's veiw Abortion (9/23/2008 4:43:20 PM)
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ORIGINAL: lostkitten2
I am disturbed by the phrase "pro abprtion" as if we go out and entice women into our den of iniquity and convince innocent women that abortions are "good for you" and they should kill their babies muah hah hah. Seriously, it's a right to choose to have an abortion, if you feel it is necessary. I wouldn't give birth or carry to term a baby that had no brainstem, I would abort it. However, I don't appreciate people aborting babies simply because they are inconvenient at that time. That seems very irresponsible to me.
It seem to me that most "pro life" folks believe in the "you play you pay" version of pennance for sin, however they are doing very little to help these young women with their child once it comes (and all us moms know that is the hard part, when the fellas usually run away, or we loose our minds.) Babies are a LOT of work, and I can't condemn a 18 year old for not feeling ready to be the sole caretaker for another life. Sorry fellas, sometimes you do pull through, Kudos to those that stay and man up to your responsibility, but it's not often, perhaps you aren't often given the options, but I have heard of a LOT of separations lately when the kids is 18 months...
There is a direct correlation between abortion and increased risk of breast cancer, is that a punishment by god or simply the body not knowing what to do with developed mammary glands when no one nurses them and all the hormones suddenly drop? It doesn't happen with miscarriages.
So what do y ou call someone like me who is not "Pro abortion" but is "Pro Choice" so long as it is made responsibly and not simply as birth control? Because that is damaging to their own bodies, and can cause damage to future kids, emotionally for many different reasons.
Palin is a very poor example of a woman, simply because she is not parenting her 5 (4?) kids and they are clearly quite messed up for it. Seeking love and comfort they missed out on from other places, while Mom is off fulfilling her abitious career goals.......I believe if people were parenting their kids better, there wouldn't need to be so many abortions......but that's another hill to die on...
I've bolded a portion of your post for a simple reason. Your assessment of the pro-life movement is quite wrong.
As a pro-life woman, I see great value in helping women who've found themselves with no where to turn, and helping them get connected with whatever resources they need to carry on once the realization of pregnancy has set in.
As a young teenager, who'd found herself in the shoes of many of the women and girls I now help, I can tell you that if it were not for the House of His Creation, a Christian based maternity home, I don't know what I would have done.
If you would like to research the subject I can gladly give you all the information you need. However, to say that we pro-lifers don't care about the women OR the babies is probably the grossest misrepresentation I've ever heard.
And I also understand where that comes from. The only part of the pro-life movement seen or heard about are those imbeciles standing outside of Planned Parenthood and other clinics calling them whores, sluts and baby killers. Well I am proud to say that we, who are in contact with pregnant women, don't share their views, and would like the focus to be fixated OFF of them nutjobs, and onto the more meaningful work that we do, in the trenches, on a daily basis.
I am an on-call counselor, 24/7, for pregnant women in a materinity home in Coatesville, PA. Having gone through many of the same things, I am relied upon to help them through some of the tensest moments, and biggest decisions of their lives. I have laughed, I have cried, I have even had to temper my own personal beliefs when on a few occasions, they've decided to abort. That's what we do. We reach out to them, and remain staunchly supportive, even if their decision does break our very hearts. I cannot hate a woman who aborts. I can dislike the act itself, but she enters not into that dislike.
Roe vs. Wade, as most of us pro-lifers understand, will remain standing. It has not been played with in 35 years.... and the fringe element of the Republican party won't have the votes, even among our ranks to get it done now. We want restrictions, yes.... we see it imperative for parental notification. Many of us believe that even in cases of rape, incest, and health of the mother it is not even a choice. Myself, and many of my colleagues, as egregious as we believe abortion to be, would never dream of revictimizing a woman who's already been, or making a woman choose between her life or her baby's. That's not our business. Our business is to be the shoulder they can cry on, the vast resource of community services, housing, clothing, medical care is big on our list, as well as a friend, and a confidant.
And the above is just a small part of what we do.
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