Let Me Start By Saying I Am Pro-Life & I Don't Mean To Do Anything By Asking This Other Then Help In Any Small Way I Can Women & Their Unborn Children, By Understanding Why Abortion Happens & What Would Help The Women Opt For Life & Help Them After Birth.
Please Answer These Questions Or Email The Answers To Me If You Would Feel Best About That.
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1. What Thoughts & Feelings When Into The Choice Of Abortion?
2. Was Their Anything That Could Have Changed Your Mind?
3. Did You Feel Pushed Into This Choice?
4. If You Could Go Back Would You Change Anything?
5. Do You Believe That "It" Was A Baby?
6. If Life Wasn't The Way It Was, Would You Have Made Another Choice? (Please Explain)
7. Do You Regret It?
8. How Many Abortions Have You Had & How Far Along?
I'll End By Saying I Know (Or Hope) No One Ever Wants An Abortion, In A Perfect World There Would Be No Want For It.
I Will Not Give Out Your Info.
No Fighting!
2007-07-16 00:06:32 · 5 answers · asked by Incognito 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
First of all I would just like to commend you. I am personally pro-choice but I have always felt like steps should be taken to try and reduce the number of abortions (through sexual education, support for women facing unplanned pregnancies, etc.). And I've always hated that most people who are pro-life spend their time either bashing women who have or are going to have an abortion and picketing clinics rather then trying more productive methods (such as what you are doing - trying to reduce the need).
1. What thoughts and feelings went into the choice of abortion
- I was only 23 and did not feel ready to start a family. Both my boyfriend and I were still in school so money was definitely an issue, as well as wanting a chance to live our lives a bit (i.e. travelling and volunteering) before having the responsibility of raising a family. We had also had only been dating for two and a half months, which isn't much of a foundation for bringing a baby into the world!
2. Was their anything that could have changed your mind
- Since this is a decision that I made with the father I guess my mind could have potentially been changed if he had really wanted to keep it and make it work.
3. Did you feel pushed into this choice
- No. Only the father and my best friends knew. I sat down with my boyfriend and we calmly discussed what we would do. There was a bit of an unspoken assumption that abortion would be the choice though, since we had been together for such a short time as well as because of where we both were in life.
4. If you could go back would you change anything
- I would have not gotten pregnant at all so I wouldn't have had to make the hard choice and go through such a difficult ordeal.
5. Do you believe that it was a baby
- Not exactly no. Life for me doesn't begin at conception. A fertilized egg has the potential of life, just as an egg and a sperm along have the potential of life. So many fertilized eggs are flushed out of a women's body during that time of the month because they never implant and so many pregnancies end in miscarriage (about 40%!) - these are not all deaths, simply potential lives that didn't quite make it.
Many people say it is life when it has a heart beat, well animals have heart beats too and yet we kill them. The key for me is when is this life able to think and feel. Brain activity begins at about 5 months, which are also the earliest estimations of when a fetus can feel pain. At that stage there is also a chance that the fetus could survive outside of the womb (however small). To me that is the point at which abortion should no longer be allowed.
Another key point for me is that I honestly don't believe that souls die (only bodies die) and I believe in reincarnation. So for me, the child that my aborted fetus would have grown up to be has either been born into another family, or might very well be my first child when I do have children.
6. If life wasn't the way it was, would you have made another choice
- I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this - if my life wasn't the way it was or life in general? I guess if I lived in a country that had better social assistance, wages, etc. In the US you are pretty much on your own, there isn't a lot of assistance for people in need. Or if college wasn't so expensive and I wasn't in so much debt from my education!
7. Do you regret it
-Somewhat. I regret getting myself into that situation in the first place. I wish no one had to face an unplanned pregnancy. And I wonder what my life would be like if I made the other choice. Pregnancy is a beautiful thing, so part of me does wish I was ready for it.
8. How many abortions have you had and how far along
- Only one. I was only three weeks along (pretty much the earliest you can get an abortion done because otherwise the fetus is so small it can't even be seen with an ultrasound.
2007-07-16 12:15:11 · answer #1 · answered by gjs2113 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i hope no one judges me about this...
1. What Thoughts & Feelings When Into The Choice Of Abortion?
- i think that abortion is wrong. i used to feel that it was the woman's choice, but now that i've seen pics of a 6 week old fetus....its definitely a human, and definitely alive.
2. Was Their Anything That Could Have Changed Your Mind?
-i didn't want to do it in the first place.
3. Did You Feel Pushed Into This Choice?
-my mother made me have one. 5 days after my 17th birthday. it was with my boyfriend-turned husband and even though i was in school, i vowed to do everything to keep the baby.
4. If You Could Go Back Would You Change Anything?
-i would've fought my mom harder. put my foot down and said no, i won't do it. it was my body and my ultimate decision. but i would've been put out on the street had i kept the baby [or so i thought]
5. Do You Believe That "It" Was A Baby?
-yes...i cried every night before the abortion, and the day i got it done i was just numb.
6. If Life Wasn't The Way It Was, Would You Have Made Another Choice? (Please Explain)
definitely. i would've kept the baby. me and my boyfriend were so torn that our parents wouldn't let us keep the baby. we went on to get pregnant 6 months later [planned] and had a beautiful daughter. we're now married and living a wonderful life. i just wonder how it would've been had we kept the first child.
7. Do You Regret It?
- i will regret it for the rest of my life. with my second pregnancy i was in my senior year of high school and graduated 7 months pregnant with an advanced diploma. i'm living proof that you can be a pregnant teen and make something of yourself.
8. How Many Abortions Have You Had & How Far Along?
only one and it was at 6 weeks.
2007-07-16 00:49:34 · answer #2 · answered by tommygirl6794092 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1. My feelings about abortion are clear. DONT DO IT!!! as soon as that baby is concieved 3 weeks after they start to breathe. I know someone very close to me who had an abortion because the doc told her she had to and now she regretes it.
2. The doc could have changed my grandmothers mind. He could have said that the baby was going to be fine but instead said that the baby would have to stay in the hospital cuz shes insulin dependent.
3. She was pushed into the choice. She didnt have one!
4. My grandmother wanted that baby so much. She now regretes it.
5. She knew it was a baby.
6. She would have changed her mind about the abortion. No need to explain that one right?
7. Like I have been saying she regretes it to the fullest!
8. She had only that one and I am not sure on how far along she was.
2007-07-23 12:39:44 · answer #3 · answered by rhindybucco2006 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My throughts and feelings are as follows, I feel it is totally wrong to have abortions, but i guess it's up to the mother to be if she wants to keep it or not, and her situation at the time. Yes, My partner could have told me that he would have loved to keep it, and have something to look after that he made.
Yes, i did feel pushed into the decision, also from my partner's parents as they don't believe in abortions.
Yes, I would change not having to go through it, it is something a women shouldn't have to go through. I would have kept it.
Yes, As I was craving chocolate from 5 weeks onwards.....plus i was tired more often.
Yes, I would have said I want to keep it no matter what the circumstances are. I knew my partner at the time would have loved caring for a new born baby as it was a part of him and myself.
Yes, I regret it ever day and as each year passes from when i had it done. Maybe thats why I want to have kids again.
I have had 2 abortions and for each i was first 10 weeks along the second i was 5 weeks along.
I hope the next time i am I won't get an abortion as I don't really believe in them myself anymore since i went through it.
2007-07-16 00:42:05 · answer #4 · answered by Tigers_Forever29 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can't answer for myself but I know numerous women who've made the decision to have an abortion. One that comes to mind is a woman who was raped and was also in questionable health. She felt terrible for doing it, but it was ultimately her decision and no one else's. Nothing really could have changed her mind, she was 13 and her parents encouraged it. She does not regret it, she feels it was the best out of a bad situation, and has only had one.
2007-07-16 00:14:30 · answer #5 · answered by guess 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋