Abortion (Yet another serious thread)

Abortion - where do you stand?

  • I am Pro-Life

    Votes: 5 18.5%

  • I am Pro-Choice

    Votes: 16 59.3%

  • I fall somewhere in between

    Votes: 6 22.2%

  • I prefer not to state and start an arguement

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    27
  • Poll closed .
First and foremost I believe that appropriate contraception should be freely available... and anyone who thinks teenagers are "just going to say no" is mad.

Secondly, 25 weeks is way too long to wait when a pregnancy is likely to kill you... mine was at 9 weeks and believe me, I was very ill by that time. I didn't realise just how ill until I began to return to normal afterwards.
 
everyone is different and that is why i didnt say that you have to wait till 25 weeks.

yes contraception needs to be more widely accessable and available to kids coz they wont say no.

round here the radio stations have condoms that you can go and get and then win holidays etc with the wrappers
 
I dont listen to Galaxy....too much dance and Rock FM unfortunately does not live up to its name.... so you've dropped in to Galaxy to get the goods?? :eh:
 
steweygrrrr said:
I dont listen to Galaxy....too much dance and Rock FM unfortunately does not live up to its name.... so you've dropped in to Galaxy to get the goods?? :eh:
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no i havent but they are always advertising them esp when they have a comp on the wrappers. great idea tho if you ask me.
 
Having a termination when you know that the likelyhood of you surviving the pregnancy is almost nil is not a choice. I didn't want one but I had to think of my daughter Katie... of leaving her without a mother in her situation. So I sacrificed my other child for her. But I have never forgotten her, nor will I. She would be 11 now.
 
Aunty Em said:
Having a termination when you know that the likelyhood of you surviving the pregnancy is almost nil is not a choice. I didn't want one but I had to think of my daughter Katie... of leaving her without a mother in her situation. So I sacrificed my other child for her. But I have never forgotten her, nor will I. She would be 11 now.
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It is not a choice when you are faced with nil odds of making it yourself. At the end of the day you can't go leaving your family behind. Even if you didn't lose the unborn child then you would probably still die and so would the child so nothing would be gained apart from a lot of greif and heartache for those left behind.

You had to do it in this situation Aunty Em and you wont ever forget her. But because of her you are still here and Katie still has her mum to love her and look after her.
 
I know, but no matter how I rationalise it, I don't think I will ever really forgive myself for making that decision and I will always grieve for my lost child.
 
Thats is totally natural and understandable.

To have to be told that your own felsh and blood has to die to save you is the worst thing that could ever possibly happen to a woman
 
I didn't know that part about you, I'm really sorry that you were put in such a situation, I can imagine how hard it was to come up with that decision.
 
There was a lot of other stuff going on at the time, my father had died just a couple of months before and my ex made it clear that if I wanted to go ahead with the pregnancy anyway he would leave... so I had no family support either since everyone just fell apart when my dad died...
 
Aunty Em said:
There was a lot of other stuff going on at the time, my father had died just a couple of months before and my ex made it clear that if I wanted to go ahead with the pregnancy anyway he would leave... so I had no family support either since everyone just fell apart when my dad died...
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<hugs Aunty Em>
 
He didn't walk out on me, but he said he would if I went ahead... that was before we knew that I had to have the termination... my bloodpressure was sky high, even just picking Katie up was an effort and I was just too tired to do anything.

We got married 2 months later... but looking back on it in retrospect I now realise that my marriage was doomed from the start because I've also never forgiven him for not giving me the sort of support I needed at the time and putting me under even more pressure when I didn't need it.
 
Rose said:
I fall somewhere in between. I do not think it's right for women to 'continually' get 'knocked up' and have an abortion to 'fix the problem'. Granted, this doesn't happen often, but ... it's still there. (these women should be "fixed" and helped for their problems)

However, I believe that there are instances when abortion may be the only positive solution.

I'm very fortunate to know someone who is the result of pro choice. His mother made the choice not to abort (pregnancy due to a molestation) and instead gave birth and put him up for adoption. Several years down the road (23 approximately), they reunited.

I suppose I'm rambling, but I guess I'll say I'm about in the middle, with a lean towards pro choice.
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Took the words right from my mouth Rose, totally agree with you hear.
 
Please allow me to take this thread in another direction, if you will.

Should certain people who don't get the idea of contraception, or never want to use if, but prefer abortion be sterilized (Either permanently or semi-permanently) ?

That is to say.

People on their 5th abortion because they couldn't care less
Teenagers that are promiscuous and hate birth-control methods
The Mentally ill - who can't make the decision for themselves
Adults with the IQ of children
Victims of AIDS (In order to reduce the AIDS Babies)
Serious Drug Abusers (Crack, Cocaine, Opium)
People in heavily over-populated areas (China etc...)
other

Give them either a sub-dermal implant that will stop either sperm production or ova production (removeable after X period of time) or tubaligation?

Is this going too far, or not far enough?
 
ill say yes to that. however i dont think its necessary for them to keep getting abortions since thats not a good method of control. ive said it before I will sa it again




if you arent ready for teh consequnces DONT GO FUCKING!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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