Posted By: R Willson  on Sunday, October 12, 2008

  I believe abortion is a mistake.  What else it might be, God hasn't told me.  It is a refusal to accept the unconditional love of another human being by refusing earth life to one's own offspring and refusal of opportunity to give unconditional love and accept its duties and rewards.  I feel it takes one backwards spiritually although our goal is progress.  It is none of the governments' business and those who "found" a political "right" in the Constitution would astonish those mwho wrote it.  There have always been abortions.  My grandmother, born in 1860, told of women she knew who had them.  Some seemed unaffected, some were hardened and one went out of her mind.  There was always a doctor in the next town who would do them.  No coathangers there.  All the loud proponents have accomplished is 1) to make us a divided nation of enemies, and 2) destroy our morality by telling young girls,"You can do anything you want and there are no rules or penalties."  The morals of a society are maintained by its teenaged girls.  The boys will do whatever the girls tell them to. And  their generation matures on that basis.  A society without laws is mortally wounded.  That's what they have given us. God help our country.  RW

Posted By: Jonathan Colb  on Monday, October 13, 2008

Abortion this, abortion that, blah blah blah...Grow the hell up!

Posted By: fencerider rob  on Monday, October 13, 2008

At least your mother didn't believe in abortion Jonathan Colb, and you were given the opportunity to grow up, even though you haven't yet.  

Posted By: fencerider rob  on Monday, October 13, 2008

At least your mother didn't believe in abortion Jonathon Colb, and you were given the opportunity to grow up, although you haven't yet.

Posted By: JS  on Friday, October 17, 2008

It's not a baby until it's born. At 26, if I was pregnant today, my first call would be to Planned Parenthood. If it was illegal, I'd be forced to do something far more drastic. Sometimes, birth control fails. Most of the women who have abortions are in serious relationships, engaged, or married, and just do not have the money or the ability to support a child. I wouldn't ask anyone to raise a baby alone, and woe to the man who would assume he had to marry me simply because of a baby. And woe to the people who would look me in the face and tell me that I couldn't have had an abortion if I wanted one after I finally got away from the man who beat me for two years. If a pregnancy had come out of that, and I couldn't have had an abortion, I'd have killed myself before I'd allow something of HIS to grow inside of me. So think of it this way: Abortion SAVES LIVES.



I wouldn't presume to tell any of you to have or not have an abortion. The fact is, you should be allowed to make the decision for yourself. That's what choice is, and that's exactly how it should remain.

Posted By: Erin McCready  on Wednesday, November 05, 2008

http://www.matthew25.org



These Catholics seem to disagree.



Apparently they are able to talk the talk AND walk the walk.

Posted By: DB  on Thursday, November 06, 2008

JS The only lives it saves is the ones that have a choice to live .

Posted By: jay0202  on Thursday, November 06, 2008

Im a single mom with 2 teen girls. I take great care of myself not become pregnant because i don't want more kids. But if i did, i want to know i have that option to keep it or not. The same with my girls , we talk about ALL of the pros and con of sex and ALL the options if they do become pregnant. A woman that has had an abortion, that is between her and god. I will not stay in judgement of her, because i dont walk in her shoes or will be there to care for her kids. So for someone that follows a "pope" (not god) to sit there and try to push those believes in me. They are the ones that are truely lost.

Posted By: Ty  on Thursday, November 06, 2008

Amazing you assume that a mother has the ability to unconditionally love her offspring.  in the ideal world, that is the situation.  in most cases, that is the situation.  However, are you unaware of post-partum depression, or even worse, the response many people feel when they are forced to care for someone they do not want to be around in the first place?  While it is an irresponsible person to not take precautionary steps to avoid pregnancy, if it is in irresponsible and irrational act to tell a person to remain in a demeaning relationship or marriage, how does an unwanted pregnancy differ?  Furthermore, as a teacher, I have seen on several occasions parents who did not want to be burdened with their offspring, and it led to a destructive lifestyle for both parties, adult and child.  I am not saying this is how it should be.  I am saying that even in my limited 28 years of experience, this is what I have seen.  I have also read the stories of parents dropping babies in dumpsters or abandoning them in bathroom toilets.  I can think of no greater travesty than for a ward of the state to grow up first with no family and then to find out his origin story began thusly.  Talk to me about tragedy.  



Secondly, R Willson, while I like to think of myself as living a Christian lifestyle, and making the best of the choices and conditions that come my way (and no, I have never opted for an abortion) I find it incredible how people, in the name of Christianity, preach unconditional love and acceptance, and in the next breath call for fighting or war.  I teach my students in math and science to think rationally and to apply reason and logic to any discussion.  I involve God in the choices I make for my own life, but i do not apply my ideas of "morals" and "ethics" to another person's choices.  He may observe a different god, or no gods, and if applying my morals forces them to make a choice that serves neither them nor their offspring any good, I move from being part of the solution to being part of the problem.  You and I both seem aware that Life is a high Value, a Virtue.  However, our experiences so far have been different to the experiences of people choosing abortion, and I am the the Ultimate Judge on that choice.  Nor will I try to be.



Finally, people who choose to undergo abortion do not do so lightly, and do not make the choice consequence free.  Years of plagued guilt and depression most frequently follow these choices.  I've known people to live with it for years, and some have to this day not forgiven themself the choice.