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Originally Posted by Superfraggle
The pro-life camp also likes to gloss over the major changes and often regret that comes from having a child you don't want and can't properly support.
That isn't ironic if you don't consider a fetus to be human yet, which I don't think the majority of pro-choicers do.
Two people you know is a very very small sample size. Of course things like that happen, but they happen on both sides of the equation. I'm sure there are people who have done it that are equally convinced that it was the right choice.
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The pro-life camp actually encourages adoption if you don't actually want the child, or don't believe you can support it.
And as I said, you're right. The majority of pro-choicers don't think it's human. What I said was often after it's done, they do. But then, a lot of pro-choicers are men, so never have to go through that.
I'm sure there are too. I mean obviously women who get more than one have no such issues.
I'm surprised you all think I'm such a staunch pro-lifer. I've said there are exceptions to the rule. This debate started because of the display pro-life groups had on campus. Because of that, I've been talking about women who use abortion as birth control, which, on a University campus, is who the pro-life groups are targeting. I'm not talking about rape victims, or people who have their life threatened. I'm talking about your average 17-20 year old girl. You average 17-20 year old girl will likely believe that they cannot support the child, and look at abortion as an option. They don't want to bring the child to term because they don't think they would be able to give it up for adoption. So they abort because that's their right, it's their choice. It's not really a human anyways, it's just a 'clump of cells'. Then they realize that that clump of cells would have grown into a child, and the reason they didn't want to allow that to happen is because they couldn't afford to take care of it, didn't want to wreck their figure, whatever. But more than that, they didn't want to give it up because it was their child. Then they realize that that clump of cells was a human, and was their child.
Now, obviously a person who was raped is probably not going to think of it as their child. (A religious person probably would think of it as a gift from God though and carry it to term anyways.) A person who is facing their own mortality over this child will also face the situation differently. They may actually believe it is their child, but chose the known vs the unknown. I can't fault that either. I would hate to be in that situation. There are exceptions to every rule. I don't talk in absolutes.
Actually, one of the girls I know was 14 at the time she had her abortion. While she regretted it, she still believes it was the right choice for her at the time, but would never do it again. She believes she killed a person. So it's actually possible to regret it and think it was the right choice as well.
Not that I haven't said this before, I'm pro-choice, but believe the right choice is life in most cases.