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In reply to the discussion: I had an abortion at 7 months pregnant in 1978. [View all]deathrind
(1,786 posts)Courageous lady. Thank you for sharing such an emotional story.
I am very much for a woman's right to choice. In my honest opinion people who are "pro life / anti-abortion" are some of the most self serving people I have ever met. I certainly have not met all the people who feel that way but the ones I have met and discussed this with strike me as being that type of person.
The reason I say they are self serving is because it costs nothing to have an anti-abortion position. They maybe spent a little bit of time protesting at a clinic or "defending" the defenseless (as they like to put it) but that is as far as they go. The process of doing this does nothing but boost their ego and make them feel morally superior to others which is self serving to their own feelings/emotions.
None that I have had this debate with has ever invested real time or money in a boys or girls club as a big brother or big sister or spent time with children in foster or state care or even children's hospital. Most do not even know what The Shriners organization is or what it does.
As person who grew up in foster care and needed multiple surgeries as child due to bad choices my mother made when she was pregnant I do donate time and money. I always ask when having this debate with a person who is anti abortion to come with me on a Saturday or Sunday for a couple hours just to go and spent time with children starting out life in a very rough way and let them know that they are not alone in this world, that people do care about them and in the process maybe bring a smile or two to a child's face but none ever do. I really have no respect for a person who will tell a woman what to do with their baby but disappear once the child is born. As I said I have not met all anti abortion people but the ones I have met are what I describe above.