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Originally Posted by Hafke
(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.
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So by your argument a woman should be able to kill her five year old son instead of giving him up for adoption? One person's rights only extend so far as another's. A person's right to choose what happens to their body is trumped by a child's right to live. You don't have the right to execute someone simply because they inconvenience you.