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In reply to the discussion: The Progressive Abortion Purity Test [View all]HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)I suppose I have a completely different take on this; certainly not the common Judeo/Christian teaching. While I never had an abortion, I did have an ectopic. Minus one fallopian tube, my daughter was born almost to the day 2 years later. If that one had lived, my younger daughter would never have been conceived, let alone born. We decided that after our 2nd child, permanent birth control was the course of action. I felt back then, and still do, that babies (souls if you wish) that are aborted, or miscarried, were not meant to be born either at that particular time, or to that particular couple. When the timing is right, they will be born. There was a reason that my younger daughter was born and grew to adulthood; and the other never made it. The reason is not for me to know. I have never grieved at all or wondered what would have been. It just might already BE somewhere, for all I know.
Sorry, if this sounds religious. I am not a religous person at all and don't mean it to be. Just an alternative opinion.