When And Why Did You Become Pc Or Pl?

I first came face to face with abortion when I was 20 years old and living away from home at university. I had a friend who I later realised was using me (but that's another story). This friend had a fiance that she was cheating on with another man and she wasn't using protection. I warned her that she'd end up getting pregnant, she even had a scare at one point but she wouldn't listen. Inevitably she ended up with a positive test in her hand. She told me nonchalantly that she was going to get an abortion. I was angry at her. I felt that she had purposely created a life just to destroy it. She had no intention of having a baby and yet did nothing to prevent it. She asked me to accompany her to the hospital to have her medical abortion and I refused; I wanted no part in the event and told her that her 'other man' should be the one to take her. Thinking back with a more mature head, the girl obviously had some kind of emotional problems because she was constantly attention seeking. The abortion was just another way to be centre of attention.

My next brush with abortion was when my mother and I read my late grandmother's medical notes and discovered she had an abortion (via hysterectomy) at 18 weeks. That shocked me. My grandmother's mental health took a sharp decline after the abortion and she developed OCD to the level that she thought she was killing children just by being near them.

So, with those two events as my main experiences of abortion, I came to ehealth as a pro-lifer. I did not have (and still don't have) any religious beliefs but I just felt that abortion was wrong, cruel and damaging to both women and babies.

Now, after lurking and then actively participating in the debate here I have come to a different conclusion. I still don't 'like' abortion. It bothers me that a human life is destroyed but I can't say why because I also believe that there is nothing special about humans other than that we are highly evolved animals. Obviously, because of the nature of our social and familial relationships with each other, we place high value on born human life.

I would consider myself pro-choice now because I do not wish to control the choices of other women. I can empathise with women who have an abortion (even my university friend) although I don't always agree with the reasons. Abortion still makes me uncomfortable and I don't think I could ever have an elective abortion (as opposed to a medically necessary one) but then, I don't know the future. Circumstances change and we have to make our decisions based on our lives at that time.

Anyway, that was rather long so have a banana if you managed to get to the end of it!

Various God.. there is more then one ya know.. persoanlly I have two.. The Lady and The Lord. Any more questions ? *Hint - read it this time*

Ok.. anymore obvious answers I can provide you then?

If you didn't want an answer then Blonde don't ask a question. I personally have no clue why you care what anyone swears by. First you want to control my body now you want to control what I write?
What exactly do you define freedom as? Because I think we are using two seperate definitions here.. I think you jumped at the first thing you thought was a way to get a dig in on me and pwn'd yourself because you failed to read and comprehend what was written.