Is anyone on here pro-life?

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Just wondering.

The people saying "I'm pro-life for myself but others should be able to decide for themselves" are pro choice too.

I honestly don't think I've ever met a genuine pro lifer as in someone who thinks abortion is wrong in every circumstance, including my own devout Catholic grandmother.
She knew a woman who refused a termination in early pregnancy after finding out she had cancer, she refused all treatment that could harm the foetus and died not long after giving birth, leaving her alcoholic husband to raise a newborn & 4 other children.

Genuine pro life ideology is dangerous & I'm glad it's incredibly rare in society as a whole (not just MN)

I was close to having an abortion once, didn't go through with it and don't think I ever could.

That's me though, it's a personal decision and everyone should be free to make the choice that's best for them.

Then you’re not pro life

You are also that murder us actually ok in some circumstances.

Not sure I’m happy with that tbh.

Do you mean the people who would expect me to carry a pregnancy to term despite the fact that I am taking one medication that causes severe birth defects and that damage would already be done by the time I discovered the pregnancy? Then i would also have to stop other medications that doing so would severely risk my health so there is a decent chance I would be dead before the baby could be born?

pro-life people don’t exist. I live in the U.S. The people trying to ban abortions have no qualms about killing women like me.

This makes my point, really: the word is CHOICE. So if you want/need to terminate, you should be able to do so. If you want NOT to, you should equally be able to do so. No one should be pressured or bullied in any context. There is no extreme here.

I still think it's murder but wouldn't judge anyone who had one in those circumstances. There are absolutely no circumstances in which I would ever have one though.

If you are pro-life and you genuinely have to choose between the mother's life and the foetus's, which would you choose?

Hope you don't get that nursing agency job you've been going for

@Ponderingwindow I have had really nasty replies when I've said if before.

Not your body, not your business.

Nonetheless you've been allowed to say it. 'allowed to say' something doesn't mean 'people must only reply to agree with you'.

But not if it's life threatening to the mother? Which in most cases also ends the life of the unborn child. So both could end up dying when the mother could have been saved by having an abortion.

Well it felt extreme to me when I was being shouted at so I think there is an extreme but there shouldn't be.

Care to nail your colours to the mast OP, or are you just a 'Wind 'em up and watch 'em go' merchant?

If you really believe you would never have an abortion, you at incredibly naive.

if you are bleeding and the baby is dying and sepsis is setting in, the treatment is an abortion. If you have an ectopic pregnancy, the treatment is an abortion.

If you were told that your unborn baby is going to die no matter what you do and that you could leave your other children without a mother or keep living, would you really not avail yourself of a medical procedure to save your own life?

I don't see anything sad about that.

While I accept that some people object to abortion on faith grounds or for other reasons, that does not give them the right to prevent anyone else from having autonomy over their own body and what happens inside it.

In that case you are pro-choice.

So in the rape or incompatible life scenario it no longer becomes murder toddler? I think you need to step away and have a think about these bizarre caveats you are issuing. It was murder 2 minutes ago, now it’s not?

@samstownsunset have you never heard of a woman finding out she is pregnant after 12 weeks? It's extremely common

Exactly!

I'm against abortion. I once saw a video of what the procedure actually involved and have never been able to get the image out of my head.

I once saw a video of what life saving heart surgery entailed OP, I’m not against it though? Maybe stay away from things like Casualty etc in the future.

Fine, so that would mean you would feel unable to have one. No problem. Your choice.
What about other women?