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H 59°, L 45°In response to the Feb. 1 article "Abortion Activist Recounts her Tale":
I'd ask to think for a moment what it would be like to hear your mother saying, about you, "I'm thankful that he/she is alive and well, but each and every day I'm reminded of the fact that he/she exists." Most of us are used to being loved by our mothers — we expect and value them. Not so for this girl — her mother has spent over forty years wishing that she … didn't exist. Do pro-abortionists really want to hold this woman up as an advocate for their cause?
I would recommend a visit to http://www.priestsforlife.org/ postabortion/ postabortiontestimonywomen.htm for a better look at women's experiences with abortion. The site is dedicated to increasing awareness about the harm abortion does to women, primarily through testimonies from women who had safe, legal abortions and were horribly injured emotionally, mentally, and even physically. One notable aspect of the account in your article is that the woman in question has never actually experienced abortion — she only wished to get rid of a nuisance, and failed in her efforts to do so.
I would ask you and all your readers to consider whether this woman's selfishness is something to be embraced.
Sean T. M. Stiennon UW Freshman
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Sean, you’re a dude. Look at your penis and remind yourself that you will never be a mom. Mind your own business… unless your business happens to be the owning of women, then carry on.
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Sean, I ask whether YOUR selfishness is something to be embraced. You fail to recognize that abortion is usually a painful choice made by would-be mothers who don’t have other viable options, despite the possibility of adoption. Until people like you wake up and start doing something about the underlying causes of abortion, it’s going to remain the best possible choice for a lot of women.
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Again you anti-choice people are trying to misdirect people. No one is Pro-abortion, they are Pro-choice. I’m sure there are women out there that are still having emotional problems after having an abortion, but how do you know that she wouldn’t have emotional problems after having the baby? How do you know, that baby wouldn’t starve to death because she didn’t have the money to feed it? or maybe she abuses the child her entire life. Until I see the religious right step up and start helping the poor that are already born, I don’t want to hear them tell anyone else what they should do with their own body.
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Sean, the one-sided website that you sited isn’t a fair example. Do they allow stories from the huge number of women who are much better off because they actually had a choice? Another person’s private decision is not your business!
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And lets not forget all the unwanted children who are born only to be horribly injured emotionally, mentally, and even physically.
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It was pretty sad to read her say that. What is the purpose of being alive? Doesn’t something seem wrong about society when we can’t be excited to welcome new life into this world? I’m not saying it is every woman’s duty to bear children, and that there aren’t shitty circumstances in relationships, but why is abortion such an issue? It seems to me the human instinct (and joy) to reproduce is somehow being suppressed.
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How do you explain women who haven’t had abortions who are injured emotionally, mentally, and even physically? There must be other causes. You don’t even know why you care.
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Wouldn’t you rather be born into bad conditions than not be born at all? Let’s look at the Iraq war, capital punishment, and the other “violence” which liberals claim to be against. Yet abortion kills more people every year than all those things combined. The reason is clear that liberals only care about things that are in the public eye. When abortions are performed , no one knows about it, but give a liberal something to cry about in the spotlight and they will organize a protest for you and point their fingers. Yes, women do have a right to choose, but it’s the same as a man’s; the choice of whether or not to concieve a child in the first place.
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Sean, great point. I fully agree with your article. I’m glad you remind people that they should check into the facts behind the cause and the promoters instead of relying on propaganda and face value.
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“Wouldn’t you rather be born into bad conditions than not be born at all?”
No.
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9:08am “Again you anti-choice people are trying to misdirect people. No one is Pro-abortion, they are Pro-choice.”
Or, perhaps “pro-abortion” people are, again, trying to misdirect people? No one is “anti-choice,” they are “pro-life.”
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Sean, you’re absolutely right. That woman’s comment was chilling
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If all those aborted babies had been born and were out looking for work then where would the Mexicans go? There wouldn’t be any “jobs citizens refuse to do” because there would be soooooooo many more citizens.
There’d be plenty of men for the armed forces too. We’d be able to “surge” hundreds of thousands of troops instead of just tens of thousands.
Of course maybe things would be different politically if all the pro-choice non-mommies had raised the children they didn’t have as liberal Democrats?
Let’s just go back to Spartan tradition and let the daddies decide who lives and who dies.
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Abortion doesn’t kill people. Conservative neglect for social problems kills people.
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I think pro-choice and pro-life are much closer than we think. I used to be 100% pro-choice, but now, at 42, I’m 50-50. I think we need to change the adoption laws so it’s easy to adopt and easy to put a child up for adoption.
I think pro-lifers can’t tell someone else that they can’t get an abortion until they’ve already adopted at least one child themselves. And I think pro-choicers need to write to their Senators to make adoption easier. There are so many wanna-be parents out there that would love a healthy baby, but it’s so hard and so expensive to adopt that most never do. And, if an expectant mother or a mother of a child of any age could just drop off their child w/o any recriminations, there would be little need for abortion. We can all be a part of the solution.
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Fast Facts: 1. Babyies (to you liberal idiots, Fetus) do feel pain. 2. Heatbeat begins only three weeks after becoming pregnat. 3. A baby can kick a mom while inside the va-jj so you tell me how is it that you liberals only consider it life only after a baby is delivered, even though theres a chance of it DYING while in birth. Call me crazy but I thought only living things could die, just as only living humans have a heart-beat. So you tell me you baby killers, human rights violaters, murderers.