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Posted: 11-03-05 01:20am

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eiri wrote:
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oh you two are too much!

Eiri the obvious difference between an abortion and a car wreck is that the woman chooses the abortion, the wreck is not chosen (unless of course someone is committing suicide). The person hurt in a wreck may not be the "at-fault" party and even if they were, it was unintentional to wreck. With an abortion, the woman chooses.

Sandy.....

Cancer, abortion. Unfair to compare the two. Cancer is an evil killing disease that nobody wishes for. The abortion was chosen by an evil selfish woman.

There are no comparisons between your examples ladies.


the woman didn't chose to get pregnant, just as she didn't chose to crash. She does chose to get medical help.

Some of use view the pregnancy as an evil killing disease, killing off our old way of life we've worked so hard to create. Losing our lovers, our parents, our friends, our chances for education, our jobs. We become nothing but the carrier being for this baby. It doesn't always happen, but it can, and that is what we wish to avoid.


if you are old enough to chose to have sex you should understand the possible outcomes of sex.
If one views pregnancy the way that you describe above why not get something done about it? Ie..Tubal..Etc....

Jamie is right.


because someday I might want a child, I just don't want one now. If there was a better way to prevent pregnancy (besides abstinance!) I would do it, but right now we're pretty much limited to the pill and patch being the mot effective means of contraception. Invent somthing new and better, then cool, i'll take it, as long as it's reversible! Tubal litigations aren't exactly reversible, which is why they don't do them to women my age.
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Posted: 11-03-05 11:03am

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it kills a baby for a selfish woman.


it removes an unwanted condition for someone who doesn't see their sole purpose on this earth as being an incubator.
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Posted: 11-03-05 11:41am

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they do not give tubals, hysterectomies, etc, just because you do not want kids due to the fact that you might change your mind later and want kids.

The reason I used cancer is because that is in alot of ways how pregnant females feel about it, it is something there that is not wanted, so therefore it is similar and correct. Just because you do not think so, their are others that do. There are many pregnant women that chose abortion that are not evil or selfish.


so were are you "reproductive rights" if they won't do a tubal/hysterectomy on demand? Why aren't you all health forum and whining about that? So you can prove that alot of women see pregnancy as cancer? And fyi my aunt has colon cancer and I think it's sick that you all would even think of comparing the two. I take her twice a week for treatments of a real disease....Pregnancy is not a disease.
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Posted: 11-03-05 11:59am

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eiri wrote:
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seeking medical assistance for a car wreck only helps the victim. An abortion helps nobody. Including the woman. She will only suffer in the end, unless of course she is a heartless freak.

An abortion is not medical treatment. It's a procedure. And abortion is not treatment. Please don't make me repeat myself again.


well then there sure are a lot of heartless freaks out there, including my mother. Thanks. The abortion helped my mother keep her father, not get disowned, and continue on with her life. Laser eye treatment is also a procedure... Wait, how odd. That has both words in it. It is a "procedure" to "treat" the problem of eyesight.

Abortion is a "procedure" to "treat" the problem of accidental pregnancy.


i feel sadness for your mother because she felt she needed to get the aboriton in order to salvage her relationship with her father. I could rant about the topic of "disowning" but I won't. That is almost as bad as killing your baby. Since she had the abortion in fear of losing her father, I look at that as forced. Do you know if she would have kept the baby if it was not for her father disowning her? Shame on her father. No disrespect but I would say that in any situation such as this. I don't know him so I can't judge him beyond this.

No, abortion does not "treat" the problem of accidental pregnancy.

It kills a baby for a selfish woman.


i told my mother a similar story, but my point is, do you view her as heartless? Or are there exceptions to the story? If so, can those people have abortions? The girl in danger of being disowned, the 13 year old rape victim, the woman who will die if she gives birth... Do you allow them abortions? If so, because you want to make abortion illegal, you're going to havee change its name in these cases. It's not (according to you all) called abortion when an ectopic pregnancy is removed... So what would you call it in these other cases? Remember, you can't use the word "abortion", it's illegal in your shiney little utopia.
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Posted: 11-03-05 12:55pm

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and neither do you, but you proclaim that it is a womens right.. A womens right to what kill....


yup. Just as it is her right to eat killed animal meat. To kill bacteria and germs on her clothes/body. Her body, her right.



and it is our right to say that it is not healthy just like anything else..
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Posted: 11-03-05 13:18pm

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and it is our right to say that it is not healthy just like anything else..


you can disagree with it all you want. Don't like abortion? Don't have one.



oh trust me I would never have one again.. But you on the other hand wouldnt care because you are all for it
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Posted: 11-03-05 14:11pm

After my scare this week (some of you know-lol) I lean more towards pro-choice now. Sorry taz, jamie, fish and m2t--still love ya'll but I think diff now. Although it would have been for health reasons if it had happened.
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Posted: 11-03-05 14:27pm

lil_blaze2004 wrote:
after my scare this week (some of you know-lol) I lean more towards pro-choice now. Sorry taz, jamie, fish and m2t--still love ya'll but I think diff now. Although it would have been for health reasons if it had happened.



nooooooooo you gone over to the dark side I am sure we can save you if we act quick enough.Lol
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Posted: 11-03-05 19:13pm

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lil_blaze2004 wrote:
after my scare this week (some of you know-lol) I lean more towards pro-choice now. Sorry taz, jamie, fish and m2t--still love ya'll but I think diff now. Although it would have been for health reasons if it had happened.



nooooooooo you gone over to the dark side I am sure we can save you if we act quick enough.Lol


save me!! Hehe
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Posted: 11-03-05 19:20pm

lil_blaze2004 wrote:
after my scare this week (some of you know-lol) I lean more towards pro-choice now. Sorry taz, jamie, fish and m2t--still love ya'll but I think diff now. Although it would have been for health reasons if it had happened.



you dont need to say sorry.. That is your choice/opinion..... But you know what could happen... And I have saved you lmao!!!
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Posted: 11-04-05 10:24am

tazzy d wrote:
stillmehere wrote:
tazzy d wrote:
and neither do you, but you proclaim that it is a womens right.. A womens right to what kill....


yup. Just as it is her right to eat killed animal meat. To kill bacteria and germs on her clothes/body. Her body, her right.



and it is our right to say that it is not healthy just like anything else..


it's your individual right to say that you dissaprove of it, but just as vegetarians can't enforce their beliefs upon america, neither can you.
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Posted: 11-04-05 10:38am

jlee77 wrote:
eiri wrote:
jlee77 wrote:
eiri wrote:
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seeking medical assistance for a car wreck only helps the victim. An abortion helps nobody. Including the woman. She will only suffer in the end, unless of course she is a heartless freak.

An abortion is not medical treatment. It's a procedure. And abortion is not treatment. Please don't make me repeat myself again.


well then there sure are a lot of heartless freaks out there, including my mother. Thanks. The abortion helped my mother keep her father, not get disowned, and continue on with her life. Laser eye treatment is also a procedure... Wait, how odd. That has both words in it. It is a "procedure" to "treat" the problem of eyesight.

Abortion is a "procedure" to "treat" the problem of accidental pregnancy.


i feel sadness for your mother because she felt she needed to get the aboriton in order to salvage her relationship with her father. I could rant about the topic of "disowning" but I won't. That is almost as bad as killing your baby. Since she had the abortion in fear of losing her father, I look at that as forced. Do you know if she would have kept the baby if it was not for her father disowning her? Shame on her father. No disrespect but I would say that in any situation such as this. I don't know him so I can't judge him beyond this.

No, abortion does not "treat" the problem of accidental pregnancy.

It kills a baby for a selfish woman.


i told my mother a similar story, but my point is, do you view her as heartless? Or are there exceptions to the story? If so, can those people have abortions? The girl in danger of being disowned, the 13 year old rape victim, the woman who will die if she gives birth... Do you allow them abortions? If so, because you want to make abortion illegal, you're going to havee change its name in these cases. It's not (according to you all) called abortion when an ectopic pregnancy is removed... So what would you call it in these other cases? Remember, you can't use the word "abortion", it's illegal in your shiney little utopia.


no, I don't view her as heartless.

Yes, there are exceptions I have explained before, maybe you have not heard my exceptions.

Rape: I used to believe woman in rape situations should have the option of abortion (i'm talking as if it were illegal for scenario's sake), but after careful consideration, I don't believe so. The baby did not ask to be conceived out of rape, just like with every pregnancy, it is innocent and should bare no consequences. I feel rape victims that are not willing or ready to be mothers should have every bit of help available to them in adopting the child to a sane, good family. Counseling should be provided.
Woman whose life in in danger: I will be honest, i'm unsure.
Woman afraid of being disowned: I don't feel abortion should be legal with this either. If a parent wants to disown her she is better off w/o them anyhow. That's the hard cold "heartless sounding" way to put it, but it's the truth. Parents that disown their children should be beaten.


so it would have been better for my mother to give birth to the child out of wedlock, lose her praents and all monetary support she'd had for college, never be able to go home, her child would never have had grandparents, and do you honestly think a single mother can get through college full time? The guy supposedly said he would have married her, but who knows if that would have actully happened.
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Posted: 11-04-05 10:38am

lil_blaze2004 wrote:
cowboys wrote:
lil_blaze2004 wrote:
after my scare this week (some of you know-lol) I lean more towards pro-choice now. Sorry taz, jamie, fish and m2t--still love ya'll but I think diff now. Although it would have been for health reasons if it had happened.



nooooooooo you gone over to the dark side I am sure we can save you if we act quick enough.Lol


save me!! Hehe



i'm on my way we can deprogram you im sure lol.Anyway you would still be a friend even if you had of had to lil.
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Posted: 11-04-05 10:51am

jlee77 wrote:
lil_blaze2004 wrote:
after my scare this week (some of you know-lol) I lean more towards pro-choice now. Sorry taz, jamie, fish and m2t--still love ya'll but I think diff now. Although it would have been for health reasons if it had happened.


you would have had an abortion?


don't know but at least I did have the option to think about it. It would be extremelly dangerous for me if I had been because of being post partum still and the c-sec. But luckily I don't have to make that choice as af came!!!!!
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Posted: 11-05-05 18:55pm

eiri wrote:
tazzy d wrote:
stillmehere wrote:
tazzy d wrote:
and neither do you, but you proclaim that it is a womens right.. A womens right to what kill....


yup. Just as it is her right to eat killed animal meat. To kill bacteria and germs on her clothes/body. Her body, her right.



and it is our right to say that it is not healthy just like anything else..


it's your individual right to say that you dissaprove of it, but just as vegetarians can't enforce their beliefs upon america, neither can you.



why not it was forced upon mcdonalds
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Posted: 11-05-05 19:02pm

eiri wrote:
jlee77 wrote:
eiri wrote:
jlee77 wrote:
eiri wrote:
jlee77 wrote:
seeking medical assistance for a car wreck only helps the victim. An abortion helps nobody. Including the woman. She will only suffer in the end, unless of course she is a heartless freak.

An abortion is not medical treatment. It's a procedure. And abortion is not treatment. Please don't make me repeat myself again.


well then there sure are a lot of heartless freaks out there, including my mother. Thanks. The abortion helped my mother keep her father, not get disowned, and continue on with her life. Laser eye treatment is also a procedure... Wait, how odd. That has both words in it. It is a "procedure" to "treat" the problem of eyesight.


Abortion is a "procedure" to "treat" the problem of accidental pregnancy.


i feel sadness for your mother because she felt she needed to get the aboriton in order to salvage her relationship with her father. I could rant about the topic of "disowning" but I won't. That is almost as bad as killing your baby. Since she had the abortion in fear of losing her father, I look at that as forced. Do you know if she would have kept the baby if it was not for her father disowning her? Shame on her father. No disrespect but I would say that in any situation such as this. I don't know him so I can't judge him beyond this.

No, abortion does not "treat" the problem of accidental pregnancy.


It kills a baby for a selfish woman.


i told my mother a similar story, but my point is, do you view her as heartless? Or are there exceptions to the story? If so, can those people have abortions? The girl in danger of being disowned, the 13 year old rape victim, the woman who will die if she gives birth... Do you allow them abortions? If so, because you want to make abortion illegal, you're going to havee change its name in these cases. It's not (according to you all) called abortion when an ectopic pregnancy is removed... So what would you call it in these other cases? Remember, you can't use the word "abortion", it's illegal in your shiney little utopia.


no, I don't view her as heartless.


Yes, there are exceptions I have explained before, maybe you have not heard my exceptions.


Rape: I used to believe woman in rape situations should have the option of abortion (i'm talking as if it were illegal for scenario's sake), but after careful consideration, I don't believe so. The baby did not ask to be conceived out of rape, just like with every pregnancy, it is innocent and should bare no consequences. I feel rape victims that are not willing or ready to be mothers should have every bit of help available to them in adopting the child to a sane, good family. Counseling should be provided.
Woman whose life in in danger: I will be honest, i'm unsure.
Woman afraid of being disowned: I don't feel abortion should be legal with this either. If a parent wants to disown her she is better off w/o them anyhow. That's the hard cold "heartless sounding" way to put it, but it's the truth. Parents that disown their children should be beaten.


so it would have been better for my mother to give birth to the child out of wedlock, lose her praents and all monetary support she'd had for college, never be able to go home, her child would never have had grandparents, and do you honestly think a single mother can get through college full time? The guy supposedly said he would have married her, but who knows if that would have actully happened.






yes it would have been better... The grandparents would have come around.. As far as college there are grants scholarships and etc. And as far as going home was she an adult?? Then if she was what would she need to go home for.. And yes a single mother can get through school full time my friend and cousin did it. There are alot of single mothers out here doing and making it, and oh yeah surviving... That is what life is all about survival
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Posted: 11-07-05 01:54am

jlee77 wrote:
eiri wrote:
jlee77 wrote:
eiri wrote:

i told my mother a similar story, but my point is, do you view her as heartless? Or are there exceptions to the story? If so, can those people have abortions? The girl in danger of being disowned, the 13 year old rape victim, the woman who will die if she gives birth... Do you allow them abortions? If so, because you want to make abortion illegal, you're going to havee change its name in these cases. It's not (according to you all) called abortion when an ectopic pregnancy is removed... So what would you call it in these other cases? Remember, you can't use the word "abortion", it's illegal in your shiney little utopia.


no, I don't view her as heartless.

Yes, there are exceptions I have explained before, maybe you have not heard my exceptions.

Rape: I used to believe woman in rape situations should have the option of abortion (i'm talking as if it were illegal for scenario's sake), but after careful consideration, I don't believe so. The baby did not ask to be conceived out of rape, just like with every pregnancy, it is innocent and should bare no consequences. I feel rape victims that are not willing or ready to be mothers should have every bit of help available to them in adopting the child to a sane, good family. Counseling should be provided.

Woman whose life in in danger: I will be honest, i'm unsure.

Woman afraid of being disowned: I don't feel abortion should be legal with this either. If a parent wants to disown her she is better off w/o them anyhow. That's the hard cold "heartless sounding" way to put it, but it's the truth. Parents that disown their children should be beaten.


so it would have been better for my mother to give birth to the child out of wedlock, lose her praents and all monetary support she'd had for college, never be able to go home, her child would never have had grandparents, and do you honestly think a single mother can get through college full time? The guy supposedly said he would have married her, but who knows if that would have actully happened.


in my opinion, anything is better than abortion. She would not have lost all monetary support for college. There is a ton, a ton...Of help to go to college. I can't begin to say I know what she went through or what it would be like to be disowned by parents. That is really sad. Like I said, if that would have happened, shame on the parents. I do think a single mother can get through college full time. But....With that being said, one has to have the will, that is not easy to do at all. This situation is hard all together.


you can say it's a shame as many times as you want, but that won't help the single, 20-year old mothers working at mcdonalds because their parents and their bfs abandoned them. What could have helped? An abortion. My mother was a little rich girl, she didn't have street smarts, she had no idea how to get scholarships for aid in the middle of the year, or pell grants or anything like that. Plus, the financial aid for colleges isn't recalculated until the next yer's taxes come in, so she'd still technically be going off the money her parents made, which they of course would no longer be supplying.

Of course it would be possible to do, I suppose. But would she truly be enjoying her life, working to support herself, her child, plus attending classes? A hard life of definatly not a fully enjoyable one, and I don't mean that to sound prissy. I work and go to classes, I work in the summer, I go full time. But there is a difference between working hard to achieve one's dreams and being held down by circumstances that could have been avoided. Circumstances that were avoided, with the abortion. I feel more sorry for the women I see working crap jobs with 5 children, living in trailers.

On another note, to go back to something you said eariler: an ectopic pregnancy certainly puts a woman in danger of impending death... And you said you weren't sure of she should be able to get an abortion? Or do you file ectopics in a seperate section entirely? There are other cases wehre the fetus itself is a danger to the mother, and carrying it any longer could mean (or will mean, in some cases) her death.

Some women are held down by their up bringing, believeing their true path in life is to mary some slob and pop out babies while he watches nascar and drinks beer. There's nothing wrong with being a stay-at-home-mom, and if I ever have children I will probably be one to for the first few years of their lives, if my husband of the time doesn't become a stay-at-home-dad. And I will be married. I believe all children should have two loving parents (gays & lesbians included), since it takes two people to make a baby. I've gotten way off track so i'll stop now.
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Posted: 11-07-05 02:08am

tazzy d wrote:
eiri wrote:
jlee77 wrote:
eiri wrote:

i told my mother a similar story, but my point is, do you view her as heartless? Or are there exceptions to the story? If so, can those people have abortions? The girl in danger of being disowned, the 13 year old rape victim, the woman who will die if she gives birth... Do you allow them abortions? If so, because you want to make abortion illegal, you're going to havee change its name in these cases. It's not (according to you all) called abortion when an ectopic pregnancy is removed... So what would you call it in these other cases? Remember, you can't use the word "abortion", it's illegal in your shiney little utopia.


no, I don't view her as heartless.

Yes, there are exceptions I have explained before, maybe you have not heard my exceptions.

Rape: I used to believe woman in rape situations should have the option of abortion (i'm talking as if it were illegal for scenario's sake), but after careful consideration, I don't believe so. The baby did not ask to be conceived out of rape, just like with every pregnancy, it is innocent and should bare no consequences. I feel rape victims that are not willing or ready to be mothers should have every bit of help available to them in adopting the child to a sane, good family. Counseling should be provided.

Woman whose life in in danger: I will be honest, i'm unsure.

Woman afraid of being disowned: I don't feel abortion should be legal with this either. If a parent wants to disown her she is better off w/o them anyhow. That's the hard cold "heartless sounding" way to put it, but it's the truth. Parents that disown their children should be beaten.


so it would have been better for my mother to give birth to the child out of wedlock, lose her praents and all monetary support she'd had for college, never be able to go home, her child would never have had grandparents, and do you honestly think a single mother can get through college full time? The guy supposedly said he would have married her, but who knows if that would have actully happened.


yes it would have been better... The grandparents would have come around.. As far as college there are grants scholarships and etc. And as far as going home was she an adult?? Then if she was what would she need to go home for.. And yes a single mother can get through school full time my friend and cousin did it. There are alot of single mothers out here doing and making it, and oh yeah surviving... That is what life is all about survival


stupid computer not posting...

Basic recap: old fashioned family, the grandparents wouldn't have helped. The abortion saved my mother's life and her dreams, allowing her to finish college and find the man she truly loved and ended up marying: my father. With him she's had 2 lovely children. Witout the aboritons, I never would have been born, and my mother would most certanly be working some low-wage job, with no family to help her out, with a 24 year old slob of a child who only had a mum and no dad, grew up poor, and who knows if he/she would ever had enjoyed the wonderful life i've enjoyed: seeing the world, etc. Probably not, since my mum marrid a .G.I, and we got to travel america and the world with him.
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Posted: 11-07-05 02:38am

Eiri so for you to live another had to die and you think that is acceptable.I know I would not like to know that I was only born because of that.Do you think it was right for your mother to inform you off this.If your father is the man you say he is wouldn't he of taken on both of them.?
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Posted: 11-07-05 19:28pm

So, what is so wrong with the truth and so wrong with communication with your children understanding and being your friend, not just your child, isn't this about abortion? Why be closed minded and not open-minded.
She let it out and this is good. You should never allow things to build up inside, it caan hurt you bad!
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