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Originally Posted by VoteDavidHall
(1) I am pro life because I've seen an aborted baby for myself. Held one in fact! It is heartbreaking. Of course than there is the fact that I was born in 1964 (almost a decade before woe vs wade) to a young 15 year old girl. My dad was in prison. A decade later my mother did have an abortion. She would have had one to end my existence too if they were available in our small rural town. Interesting to note, that she is grateful that wasn't her option. The years were difficult, there is no denying that, but 44 years later, she is proud of my accomplishments and it is not my life that causes her grief.
(2) Abortions hurt the women, those stats. are never discussed by the liberals. Often the circumstances surrounding pregnancy are heartbreaking. Unfortunately making a bad choice just makes thos circumstances worse, for years to come.
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(1) Your mother made a "choice", and she is happy with it. Wonderful. That does not mean that other women should be denied their right to choose. What was right for her may not be right for other women. The choice is what matters.
(2) Please don't pretend that your position derives from a concern for women. If abortion cured cancer and depression, would you support it? I'm guessing no. Besides, where exactly are these stats? You know, for a fact, that having an abortion is a worse option - for
every woman - than having a pregnancy she doesn't want and possibly raising a baby she doesn't want, or putting it into an overcrowded and borderline criminal foster care and adoption system?
Despite what you imply with your anecdote about your mother, not every woman/girl can and will love an unwanted baby. Not every woman/girl can be a good mother. I've seen too many lives ruined by unwanted pregnancies to be convinced by your one example.