Vista I had two children (one 7 and the other 5) and was 32 when I found out I was pregnant. I was on a chemotherapy drug (methotrexate) that causes miscarriage and spina bifida. I have a disease (takayasu arthritis) that they have very little imformation on in regards to pregnancy. I had had a stroke 4 years earlier, had two arteries totally blocked from inflammation, one artery with reverse flow and three with stints. I was told not to have any more kids. My doctors told me to abort for a multitude of reasons...I didn't give it a second thought.
From the moment I found out I was pregnant she was my daughter. You offend me with your "Why take the chance on destroying the lives of the living children for the sake of the unborn". I would do it over again in a heart beat, even without the guarentee of the same outcome.
You offend me with your "Why take the chance on destroying the lives of the living children for the sake of the unborn". I would do it over again in a heart beat, even without the guarentee of the same outcome.
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YES BEG, if offended me when I was told that, very thing to my face, by in-laws that were more concerned for themselves having to raise my 2 children when I refused to abort.
When I hear about others that have to fight family and Doctors to insist on protecting the life within them, then have to handle the guilt [of the others] that advised against ignoring Doctors orders and end up with a healthy child, Oh my , devastating the complications in family life for them in the future.
For me, I found the in-laws were never comfortable around the last two, the ones they insisted I abort especially when both healthy and active came running into the room. Not the kind of people to admit or apologise for their past tirades over my insistence that the new life came before mine.
My parents were of the sort that did apologise and were thrilled to have the baby's born healthy and I recovered from kidney disease.
The in laws, sad but they only saw the kids again half a dozen times by their wish not mine. Odd how some people are so angry when their wishes are not followed and everything comes out OK, it is like a slap in the face to them.
It is a crazy life for women who marry into a family and meet for the first time they that live 3,000 miles away after the wedding. We are in love with their son but have no idea what his parents are like, will they except you or see you as a an interloper into the family.
Mother in laws,[ some ] refuse to release the apron strings to their sons, expect their sons to side with them and when they stick up for their wife, some kind or maternal instinct kicks in and they come to hate the woman that took their boy from them.
Very complicated, life is. Some things one can forgive and forget, others leave open wounds that last a life time.
Kids call or come to visit, today and I still have a difficult time to not roll my eyes sky wood and feel sorry for the departed that are no longer here to understand , or to have been part of the life of the wonderful kids I risked my life to bring forth.
There was never a question in my mind about my purpose on earth, never occurred to me to sacrifice my baby's for the benefit of anyone.
Still angry after all these years at the in laws that never forgave me or the kids for going against their wishes and making life easier on them.