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Are you anti-abortion? why?

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HAPPYFACE · 21/10/2006 08:04

Reading another thread has made me keep thinking this question. I don't understand how anyone can be totally one way.
For me I think it is up to each person and I wouldn't judge anyones decision.
I personally think that whether to keep a child is complex. It changes your life forever when you have children! I don't see how it is beneficial to mother or child if their lives will be miserable.
You only get ONE LIFE and need to make the most of it.

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Pruni · 22/10/2006 10:41

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dizzydesperatehousewife · 22/10/2006 10:44

I'm not gonna post on here anymore because I am getting obsessed.....
I do think however that this has been a good thread and it has certainly made me think about a lot of things most not even abortion related.
I am now questioning my choice to eat meat and the fact that I kill insects and wondering why I can do both those but feel so strongly about this..........

lulumama · 22/10/2006 10:44

DDH - you obviously know of situations where women have had an abortion for what you consider the 'wrong' reasons...what about the consequences if they had not had legal abortion..they could have ended up dead or terribly mutilated....

or should they have had the baby and damn the consequences to everyone else.....?

i just don;t get how you could read this thread and still retain such absolute black & white views.....

HappyMumof2 · 22/10/2006 10:44

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winnie · 22/10/2006 10:45

In answer to the OP I am not anti abortion but agree with Caligula and others that pro-choice is a ridiculous term to use. Abortion is, thankfully, legal in the UK and I personally would fight for it to remain so.

GhoulsToo · 22/10/2006 10:46

It's too complex to say for or against. There are a myriad of reasons as to why someone would take the route of aborting a baby.

I have a question for those of you who said you are 'Pro choice'

Is there ANY situation where you would say it was unacceptable? (i have a least one reason)

ScareyCaligulaCorday · 22/10/2006 10:46

ddhw no-one is pro abortion.

Those of us arguing for the political right of a woman to make her own decisions over her own body, are pretty anti it as a process; we just recognise that life isn't always what we want it to be.

I find your postings quite childish, tbh, because your arguments allow of no subtleties or nuances. And to just start bandying the PC insult around - well how tired.

HumphreyComfrey · 22/10/2006 10:46

..well at least spiders and burgers all over the country are breathing a sigh of relief.

Oh yes, this thread has been really worth while.

GhoulsToo · 22/10/2006 10:47

telling posters to 'get off the thread' is unacceptable imho.

HappyMumof2 · 22/10/2006 10:47

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GhoulsToo · 22/10/2006 10:49

it's a discussion board and you may hear things you don't like. I thought everyone knew that.

foundintranslation · 22/10/2006 10:50

JT - I might personally find particular sets of circumstances (rather than reasons per se) in which someone chooses to have a termination unacceptable, but it would not mean I set myself up as judge and jury or insist that my view be translated into law. Of course I am anti-abortion - as Caligula says, I think everyone is. It does not preclude me being 'pro-choice' (or rather pro the availability of safe legal abortion), though.

MwaHAHAMhamai · 22/10/2006 10:52

I wasn't going to post here again but ddhw as to your comment re women laughing and joking on the way to/back from theatre, I'm a trainee psychotherapist and believe me I have clients who often try to mask their pain with humour. I was going to suggest that maybe you look at the bigger picture before making assumptions but I'd say your defences are so high now that you won't back down and if anything by looking at your more recent posts are trying to be inflamatory.

QuootieSpookypie · 22/10/2006 10:52

this is still going? I kinda hoped it had dropped off the active convos.

ScareyCaligulaCorday · 22/10/2006 10:54

Agree Ghoulstoo.

In the real world except in very outlandish situations where for example the woman wasn't in her right mind and was out of her head on drugs 3 days before her due date and demanded her baby is aborted or something, no I can't think of any situation where I feel that the state or the medical profession has the right to challenge the sovreignty over her body of an adult compos mentis woman.

Most of the examples people give when discussing this, are usually so outlandish and bizarre that there has never been a documented case of such a circumstance in the real world. I'd be interested to hear your exception though.

Pruni · 22/10/2006 10:54

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QuootieSpookypie · 22/10/2006 10:55

Well, in DDSWs defence, when I had mine, the girl opposite was so... I dont even know how to describe it. Unconcerned? She tossed me a magazine, saying "oh, it takes ages here". And, said it was her 3rd, and said "oh, if that doctor tells me to go on the pill, ill punch him!". I heard her shouting at him when he tried to discuss contraception.

QuootieSpookypie · 22/10/2006 10:55

*DDHW.

Pruni · 22/10/2006 11:01

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QuootieSpookypie · 22/10/2006 11:03

well, tell me what experiences I can base my own personal views on please.

MwaHAHAMhamai · 22/10/2006 11:03

Granted Q but to assume someone is a certain way because they appear a certain way is as rubbish as dddhw's certainty that she would also act this way or that. Women do often disasociate (sp?) from their feelings when this is happening........I was one of them.

buktus · 22/10/2006 11:04

i agree i think she should have taken into account that most of us posting threads are normal women with this experience oh and have feelings

QuootieSpookypie · 22/10/2006 11:05

well... i guess... because when i was asked to sign the forms and he said "still sure?" I just went "yep!". Trying to be polite

Pruni · 22/10/2006 11:07

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QuootieSpookypie · 22/10/2006 11:08

im afraid all my experiences of abortion are repellent. If I omit them...

One morning I woke up...

Well, nothing from then to now isnt awful, horrific and U rated.