Question about Pro Abortion?

Question

Okay, long story Short;

I'm a 26 year old Agnostic. I work with Ex-Offenders and substance misuser's.

My Biological Mother tried to have me aborted 2 months into her pregnancy.

My Grand Mother managed to stop "mother" from aborting me by keeping her under lock and key until I was born.

Even though I would have been just a "bunch of cells" at the time, how is my life now not more important than 9 months of disruption to some one else's life?

It seems to me that all pro abortionists are terribly short sighted, If you had a time machine would you go back and assist my Mother in terminating my life? Philosophically this makes no sense to me whatsoever. Please clarify.

Also, is there a philosophy section in answers? I wanted to post this there but couldn't find it :-)

Thumbs down?

You pregnancy lot are very harsh crowd.

To everyone who is more interested in paranoid semantcis; I wholly apologise for the slip, I'm a bit passionate about the subject and of course meant to say "Pro Choice".

Apologies.

Answer 1

Well thank God for ppl like your grandmother!!! I don't have an answer for why ppl are so short sighted, I personally am against this murdering practice myself. However, as to a philosophy section here, its in arts and humanity section. Again, you have a special grandmother!!

Answer 2

You know, this is a terrible story and I'm sorry you had to grow up knowing this. How unfortunate for you!

I am not pro-choice (I have 4 kids and another on the way) but I can assure you that you weren't just a "bunch of cells" when you were in your mother's womb any more than you are just a "bunch of cells" now. I suppose one could look at life that way but that leaves out the mind and soul, both of which transcends everything else.

Terminating your life would have been a terrible thing to do, and it isn't any more reassuring that it's done every day here. What about those millions of children who never have a voice, like you have now? Now don't get me wrong, I don't stand by abortion clinics and protest. My husband fixes ultrasound equipment and often goes to places where abortions are performed. He's not participating in that practice, just fixing the equipment (which ostensibly could be used to check the health of an unborn baby, not to abort it) and those anti-abortion people are obnoxious, yelling at him that he is a baby-killer. A father of five a baby killer? I figure I have enough going on with my brood of kids to ever expose them to THAT. If a woman wants to abort her own child, it's something she has to live with. Hearing from an almost-aborted child (you) is really eye-opening. You don't mention how your mom was to you growing up, and it might explain more about why you feel the way you do, but in the absence of that, nine months is a short period of time considering how much longer one might have to live with the knowledge that a life was terminated. If I was in your mom's place (I assume she was pretty young), I would have seriously considered adoption for my baby, but never abortion.

I don't know if you believe in a higher power than ourselves, as an agnostic I believe you do not, but I do...I believe that the life created by a man and a woman is sacred. They're not just cells, there is something more at work here. Just the same as suicide is throwing God's gift back in His face, so is abortion. Who are we to lose sight of that?

God bless your grandmother for doing what she did. Obviously she knew you would change the world, which is why you are here today.

Take care of yourself.

Answer 3

First of all, I use the term "Pro-choice" because "Pro-Abortion" is a slam word used against people who believe in "Pro-choice". I could use the term "Anti-Freedom" against "Pro-Life" people, but that, too, would be a slam term.

I believe abortion is wrong, but that choice must be made by the parents (including the father) of the child. I would never force abortion on someone, nor would I keep someone from chosing to do so.

My question to you is, if you feel this way about abortion, what have YOU done to adopt one of unwanted children in an orphanage? How much is a few years of disruption to your life compared to someone elses?

Philosophically, it makes no sense to me for someone to judge someone else's decision unless they have been in their shoes. If you think that "Pro-abortionists" believe everyone MUST have an abortion, you are sadly mistaken. I believe you have this group mixed up "Pro-choice", and these people do not necessarily believe that abortion is right, just that it's not the government's decision to make.

Answer 4

I am not "pro-abortion", I'm pro-choice. I don't advocate abortions to anyone, I just respect that it is an choice all women should have the freedom to make. In countries where abortion is illegal, thousands of women die every year from back-alley abortions. It just seems to me that making it illegal isn't going to stop the practice from happening. At least if it is legal it can be done in a clean and sterile environment.

I do agree that every child has potential and there is no telling what might become of one that was lost in a miscarriage or an abortion. Hopefully most women will make the right choice and at the very least give their unwanted child up for adoption, but if that's not what they choose we have to respect their decision.

Answer 5

there is no answer. you cannot go back in time anyway. what happened has happened, you are alive, so be thankful for that! Just because someone is pro choice does not mean we think everyone should have an abortion! Being pro choice meanings believing women have the right to choose about their bodies and what they do with it, without any outside interference.

Answer 6

First, you are very fortunate that you had the support of a loving family member to raise you to be a thoughtful and, obviously, passionate young woman. Second, I don't know of anyone in the pro-CHOICE movement who is pro-abortion.

Personally I wish the focus, on both sides, was more on prevention. To be in the position to contemplate to abort or not is heart wrenching. No woman makes that decision lightly, regardless of the circumstances.

However, thousands of women around the world die from dirty, illegal abortions. Thousands more give birth, only to abandon their children to state run orphanages that are crowded, dirty, and the child suffer cruel neglect and abuse. In this country, unwanted children are routinely victim of neglect and unspeakable abuse.

No one wants to feel she has to make the choice. But our side wants to allow her to have a choice. Let's all consider look at prevention.

Answer 7

I am so glad that your grandmother literally saved your life. Your life was just as important then as it is now. You were more that a "bunch of cells!" You were a life, and people who can just have abortions because they are inconvinienced by having a baby have no heart. If I could have gone back in time, I would have done exactly what your Grandmother did. She is an angel! :)

Answer 8

Pro Choice. Don't put any spin on it or try to church it up to fit your agenda. I was going to be aborted too. I'm sure my mother would have had a better life.

I can imagine how over run we would be without abortion. Welfare would be out of control. It is the mothers right to chose and you wouldn't have known the difference. get over it, life is short.

Answer 9

You are lucky that you had a g-ma that fought so hard to have you in this world...It is also good to see that you are doing some positive work in your community...I work at a crisis pregnancy center...so i see girls who are in the middle of seciding what to do. Far too many could have an abortion, but could not ever think about giving baby up for adoption...I ask you, what is wrong with that picture.

I am glad you were born!!

Answer 10

abortion is a violent act that ends the life of a living baby
I dont think any "pro abortion" people are going to be able to "clairfy"
they scramble behind NON issues, like the whole rape/incest thing...only represents .002% of all abortions! OR "life of the mother" almost ALL abortions are elective, meaning "choice" to kill an innocent baby
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