I have an interest in this argument.
I also believe abortion is morally wrong, except in cases of severe birth defect or rape, or maybe a couple other excepts.
That being said, my wife recently had one. We are too old, too busy trying to build our family's finances, and we feel our two kids are exactly the ones we want. I had originally asked my wife to go on the pill or something if she didn't want any more, but she was worried about messing with her hormones. I didn't think it was my place to impose a decision like that.
It bothers me that people who are fine with abortion think it's dysfunctional not to be fine with it. Reproduction is one of the central features of our evolution, and of the lives of the majority of human beings. I'm okay with my discomfort. In fact, I chose to accept what I knew would be uncomfortable in order to mediate some of the burden on my wife in making a touch choice.
In the end, I'm kind of stained forever. But I've been stained before, and will be again, by a variety of other necessary concessions and compromises that disillusioned me from the fairy tale of a morally or socially perfect existence.
I also believe abortion is morally wrong, except in cases of severe birth defect or rape, or maybe a couple other excepts.
That being said, my wife recently had one. We are too old, too busy trying to build our family's finances, and we feel our two kids are exactly the ones we want. I had originally asked my wife to go on the pill or something if she didn't want any more, but she was worried about messing with her hormones. I didn't think it was my place to impose a decision like that.
It bothers me that people who are fine with abortion think it's dysfunctional not to be fine with it. Reproduction is one of the central features of our evolution, and of the lives of the majority of human beings. I'm okay with my discomfort. In fact, I chose to accept what I knew would be uncomfortable in order to mediate some of the burden on my wife in making a touch choice.
In the end, I'm kind of stained forever. But I've been stained before, and will be again, by a variety of other necessary concessions and compromises that disillusioned me from the fairy tale of a morally or socially perfect existence.