The Progressive Abortion Purity Test

[renie408]

90. Frankly, I find your intolerance a little ironic.

YOU find my emotional reaction ridiculous?? Well, that's all that matters, huh??

Ok, HERE is why I was crying yesterday, since you seem to think I am lying about that or whatever it is you think, you intolerant, ugly minded bitch:

When I was 19 I was in love with a boy. He was my first. We dated for several years and I got pregnant even while taking precautions. We decided to have the baby. I picked out names. We looked at apartments. I started taking the vitamins, reading the books, etc. I found out I was pregnant pretty quickly, probably not more than 4-5 weeks. At that time in our state you had until your 12th week to abort. For six weeks I went around happily pregnant, looking at tiny apartments, looking for jobs to support us. But happily planning my future and wondering what my baby was going to be like. Then the boy came to me one night and said he couldn't do it. He was too young to be a father. He was still in school, still too young. He said that if I wanted to have the child, he would do what he could to support me from afar. At the time, I was in school and working part time at McDonald's. I was earning the grand sum of about $90 a week. I lived with my parents who had already told me that if I EVER got pregnant, I was not to turn to them. The boy left and for a few days I scrambled around trying to figure out how to do this thing on my own. I did not see a way to handle it. I called the boy and he drove me to Planned Parenthood and paid for the abortion.

I was devastated, but at the time, I got over it. Honestly, I don't know WHY reading all this stuff about abortion had me crying yesterday. Maybe it was just reliving the event or something. I do not precisely regret the decision. Maybe it is more that I regret the necessity of the decision? I don't know if it is even that. But what I DO know is that this thing that some of you have of vilifying those of us who think that abortion is a regrettable thing is NOT helping the pro-choice cause.

WHY are you so invested in attacking me? You have sarcastically and aggressively commented on several of my posts. Because I am sad that I had to have an abortion? That really offends you THAT much? Because I think maybe people should slow down in their militant support of the right to choose and think about what they are saying before they speak?? That maybe they need to realize that they are talking to actual people with actual experiences and maybe being a little sensitive wouldn't kill them?

Thank you, though, for so perfectly illustrating the point I was trying to make. It isn't enough to believe in choice. You have to believe the same way YOU do.