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Originally Posted by Dannyboy1  You need to read the post I was responding to if you want to understand what I wrote.
It is irresponsible to have sex without protection if you don't want a baby. Then, to abort afterward because it would hamper your lifestyle is something you'll have to deal with the rest of your life. Abortion should not be used as a casual form of birth control. |
Thanks for the patronizing tone, but, er, I
did read it. I read Erin's original post, and every comment in this thread.
What you, and others, refuse to understand, is that MOST abortions come from women who WERE using protection. This notion that most abortions were done by women just wantonly having unprotected sex? It's a myth. Am I saying that it's rare or that it never happens? Of coures not. But it is by no means as common as you anti-choice types would prefer to believe because it allows you to regard women as capricious and immature.
Oh, and "hampering your lifestyle" is a really cheap way of trivializing just how life-altering pregnancy and child-rearing is.
There is NOTHING remotely "casual" about abortion, regardless of a woman's reasons for getting one. I can't believe anyone seriously believes this. Do you know what abortion involves? How the HELL can you call it casual, ever? This just proves my contention that most people who are against abortion have this ridiculous notion that it's just like an impulse trip to the grocery store. In, out, all you've lost is a few minutes of your time, no harm, no foul. That...is so not the reality of the decision to abort, or the process of getting one.
And as far as abortion being you'll have to deal with for the rest of your life? That warrants the biggest "Duh" response of the year. But, you know, SO IS HAVING A CHILD. Having a child is no less a permanent decision that you'll have to "deal with" for the rest of your life. But I note that there's a presumed negative quality to your statement, as if any woman who aborts is doomed to regret for the rest of her life. Sorry, but, um, no. There are literally thousands of women who've aborted, for reasons YOU would self-righteously call irresponsible, or "casual", who don't in the least bit regret their decision. I'm friends with several. I could also direct you to the website of
I'm Not Sorry.net: Celebrating The Right To Choose, a website that counters everyone who insists on saying "Everyone I know who had an abortion regrets it," as if that somehow proves that all women, everywhere, will ultimately mourn the loss of their baby and wallow in remorse and guilt for the rest of their life.