This is of course good advice. But given many of the other posts in this thread including the first one and the thread title, this is more than a little ironic.
I honestly haven't read much of this thread...that was just my reaction to that post. So if it was ironic, it was ignorantly so.
I agree with you about the universal healthcare. It should not be run by the government. http://www.balancedpolitics.org/universal_health_care.htm
There is a BIG difference between my mother and a mother who chooses abortion. I was planned, my mother wanted to have kids, and so that is what happened. You don't have the right to choose for someone else when their personal morality doesn't match yours. Until the woman decides to bring the fetus to term and bear it, it is exactly like a parasite. I mean that in both the literal and figurative.
When they stop using terms like "murder," "baby killer," and "pro-abortion," I will be happy to temper my language as well. (I would never have used such crude language in a response to a post from you as you are too respectful to use any of the above terms.)
we could throw out the entire criminal code with this statement. even a lot of civl law, as well. "bank fraud is not personally immoral to me. banks have enough money as it is! so you can't judge me!!! you can't choose for me!!"
I know it's been said before, but I think it bears repeating. http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1849483,00.html?imw=Y
Honestly, both sides of this debate are so shrill. one side calls the other murderers the other side likens an unborn baby to a parasite. These are the "choices??" The problem is that we're a culture that doesn't cherish life. We see children as burdens. We laugh about it. We joke about it. If you're wealthy, have the baby but send it to boarding school as soon as it can walk. If you're poor, there's a clinic down the street...shhhh..you don't want to see the ultrasound. We report casualties in a war only if they're wearing our flag on their sleeve. We talk about human lives in terms of collateral. And we reduce ourselves and the children we decide to let live to consumers fueling a machine. "Have the baby, because I said so..but don't ask me for help!!! Don't raise my taxes!!" Humanity is lost in all of that. There's very little dignity or decency in any of that to me. I'm not about to judge someone who is having an abortion. What should government do about it? Who knows? Does it matter? But these fallacious arguments that it's all really about one person's choice...and there are no consequences for anyone else...man...that's just false and weak to me. It flies in the face of even what the court in Roe said when they put limitations on WHEN you could get an abortion, understanding that there's a baby developing in there over time. That we split hairs over this subject to meet definitions makes me sick.
She started the process of "using" her uterus. You try and make it sound like someone artificially inseminated her having drugged her. Whether wanted or not each child is a miraculous creation and there is a loving place in this world for them. If you are willing to open your legs for a man, you should be willing to wrap your arms around the child you create-- even if for just a few minutes.
