I think people should, in general, choose not to have abortions

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30. I recently posted about being an adoptee, and finding my biological kin. My birth mother's mother

evidently is the one who insisted her under-age daughter give me up at birth. STAUNCH Catholic. The boy involved evidently was not a Catholic and she just Was. Absolutely. Not. Having. It. I suppose I could have been aborted, although with rigid Catholic thinking governing the family I kinda doubt that such an option ever came up for discussion. I guess that's just the luck of the draw here.

I think about that a lot. I also grew up, married, and eventually had children of my own. It was MY choice to do so, and MY choice to hold off from doing so for as long as I did. Both my pregnancies were extremely difficult, and each of my babies had to be delivered before their due date because it was literally becoming life-threatening for me. But that was MY choice. I was pro-choice BEFORE I got pregnant. Those difficult pregnancies really cemented that view in place for me. They rendered me more ardently pro-choice than ever before. My takeaway from there, besides (thankfully) two healthy normal babies, was that NO woman should EVER be forced to go through that unless she freely chooses to. It's quite simply no one else's business. I'm afraid this is an absolute, it is a non-negotiable, at least for me.

Your second sentence - "I think the decision should 100% be up to the woman involved" is the baseline for me. If someone's against abortion I'd say - "well, then, don't have one! Nobody's forcing one on you." And that's how it should be.