RE: How can a god, that apparently loves everyone, allow this kind of thing to happen?
October 22, 2013 at 4:13 pm
(October 22, 2013 at 3:34 pm)Zazzy Wrote: It would not. It would force abortion into back alleys.Many women would have the child rather than have an illegal abortion, if only because they didn't know where to obtain one. Total abortions (legal and illegal) doubled from 1969 to 1980.
Quote:I am a woman, and I like sex. Some women do and some women don't. Despite best intentions, often birth control fails. I think women are grown folk who can decide what to do with their own bodies. Your position reduces them to baby mills- like we do to breeding animals.If they can decide what to do with their own bodies, they can decide not to have sex until they're prepared to handle the consequences.
Quote:As a matter of fact, I'd love to see the number of abortions in this country reduced, just for different reasons than you.How much would you love it? What measures would you accept, if any, to reduce it?
Quote:How would you pick?In this scenario the choice is already made - the one with the congenital disease which is going to kill it anyway.
Quote:So it's OK to let it die, but not OK to kill it. Gotcha. You're doing a fine job of demonizing yourself, John.Oh crap, if we're allowed to cop out, then I retract my earlier statement and likewise don't know what I'd do. Wow, that makes things a whole lot easier!
I honestly don't know what I'd do in this situation. I hope I never find myself in it.
Quote:So if there is a family that had just gone through this that read your post, they'd be mischaracterizing you if they felt that you didn't know fuck-all about their position and that your words were judgmental of and hurtful to them?Yes.
Quote:Damned straight it would be a mischaracterization, since it wouldn't be in line with my position. As I have consistently said (and as you have consistently ignored because it doesn't fit into your feminazi stereotype), I don't get to make any decisions for anyone else about their reproductive issues, and I don't have the right to judge anybody for the decisions they make about such an event in their lives- whether due to an early fatal disease or not.There you go.
