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Post by Boxface on Dec 20, 2013 4:20:20 GMT -5
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Post by Gregory on Jan 1, 2014 5:01:02 GMT -5
Hm, I wasn't aware that you were having doubts about your stance on this topic.
I suppose I should begin by saying that wherever you fall on abortion morally is not necessarily the same as where you should fall politically. Even if you determine that you, personally, find abortion unacceptable, that shouldn't mean that you find it appropriate to deny others the right to assert control over their bodies and fertility. It's fine to find abortion an inappropriate choice for yourself, but we don't base laws on personal moral convictions.
That said, I encourage you not to think of abortion as 'murder.' Abortion simply halts a pregnancy; indeed, this is achieved by removing the fetus from the uterus. The trouble with describing the fetus as 'dying' during this process is that the fetus cannot necessarily be said to be alive. Is it truly alive if it cannot survive outside the womb? At that point, I think it is only fair to say that it is a part of its mother's body, not a separate and living creature, and is instead only something that has the potential to be human. This is why abortion is typically (where it is legal) banned past the point of viability, or the point at which the fetus can survive outside the womb as a baby.
You are of course free to form your own opinions, but I would urge you to return to your former pro-choice standpoint. Would you not agree it is important for women to decide whether they wish to have a child? Restricting abortion prevents them from being able to make that very important choice. Forcing a woman to continue a pregnancy against her will is a violation of her rights, don't you think? And what good would it do to bring an unwanted child into the world?
I truly wish I could discuss this with you in person in order to better explain this issue and gauge the nature of the sudden doubts you are having. How unfortunate that you chose not to spend summer break in South Africa (a choice you had every right to make--frequent travel can get so exhausting)! I miss you dearly, and I hope you get over your influenza very soon!
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Post by Sigvard_the_Swede on Jan 16, 2014 19:51:47 GMT -5
er i am not really to know what to say to this?
matilda i would not beleive you would have the intentien to hurt me but this is feeling vary strange. why would you be making a thred such as this rigt after i am making my postings aboute the situatien i am haveing that involves the abortien?
i was said over and over again in the thred that the abortien was upsetting to me, and now you are to post this thred saying abortien is bad and murder? well, this is only making me feel worse you know. i am hopeing you would not try to upsett me like this, but who is even knowing, i feel like i cannot trust any women any more not to be hurting me.
any way, you should not be agenst the abortien. it is wrong to ban, only the crazy christians are to want this. no one can tell other people what to do with their bodies. even if it is vary upset to have happen. i mean, i did not want to be a fathre anyway. so i am not even knowing why i am upset. it is so fuking stupid that i am vary upset over this whole thing. two months ago i would be making jokes about abortien and would be angry if somone did not abortien. but ja i am gessing i should go update that thred of mine.
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Post by Boxface on May 7, 2014 20:31:51 GMT -5
OMGZ SO IT TURNZ OUT THAT BABYS CANT EVIN FEEL STUFF??? LIKE PAIN? I DONT WANT ANYONE TO BE HURT!!! WIHC IS WHY I WAS THINLKERING ABORTION IS BAD!! BUTZ!!! I DONT CARE IF THERE ISNT PEOPLE HURTERING!!!! OKAYZ!!! THANK U GUYZ FOR RESPONDERING =DDDDDDDDDD
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