Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Feb-24-10 02:20 PM
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142. I'd like to add a perspective that I don't think I've ever heard
There are MILLIONS of human beings on this planet who would most certainly not be here now if their mother had NOT terminated a prior pregnancy.
I personally know a handful of such people, and I know without any doubt that this is true. So I can extrapolate it out to a reasonable ballpark figure of MILLIONS.
Why? There could be several reasons, such as had the prior pregnancy gone to term, that child would have impacted the live(s) of the parents such that no further offspring would have been created by that couple. Or, the simple timeframe itself would have made it absolutely impossible (let's say somebody gets pregnant a few months after a prior termination--trust me, it happens).
So, tell me how you look all those MILLIONS of people in the eye and tell them that if you had it your way, they would have never been born? These aren't fetuses, these are birthed and grown human beings, people who will understand what you are saying when you declare that they should not exist.
They complain about the "theory" that all fetuses are potential children...but it's OK to kill them because their birth may have caused a future pregnancy to not happen. That would make a future, possible pregnancy something that has more rights than a living human fetus. Oh, good logic in that idea.
salinen (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Feb-24-10 02:57 PM
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156. This is exactly why I started this thread
But, all these millions come after the first fetus was aborted. That fetus is not responsible for future abortions. Why, because there are too many variables and not all of them are tragic.
This must be a mole...
Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Feb-24-10 03:09 PM
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164. I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say there
But my point goes like this:
Find a woman, even a so-called pro-lifer, who has had an abortion, and then subsequently had children. Ask her if she thinks that her current children would have been conceived/born if she HAD NOT had the prior abortion. Then ask her if she regrets having had the abortion if she realizes that her CURRENT LIVING CHILDREN would not have existed. Just try it. I'll tell you what she'll say. She'll say that while she regrets having made that decision, there is NO WAY that given the opportunity to do it again, that she'd choose differently, because that would mean that she would not have her current children.
Sometimes things just happen because they are supposed to, for whatever reason.
Sometimes we end up in an abortion clinic, handing the nurse our money and having our living child sucked out of our body just...because...things happen. This one has seriously needs to break her drug habit and grow a brain.
