How many of you are truly pro-choice?

[Anonymous]

Meaning if your 17 or 23 year old daughter got pregnant, you’d emotionally support her 100% whether she decides to have and raise the kid, abort or give the kid up for adoption?

[Anonymous]

I have 2 DDs. Yes, absolutely. I would attempt to support them in whatever decision they made.

[Anonymous]

How is this even a question? 1000% support my daughter to choose what she does with her body. And no, it’s not a BaBy! At 20 weeks a clump of cells the size of a golfball. If she needed later, I would trust what her doctor said. So unAmerican to be against a woman’s right to control her own destiny.

[Anonymous]

This seems like an odd definition of pro-choice.

Personally, I'd want my child to have the baby in most circumstances, because I think abortion is generally morally wrong. I think it should be her decision, though, because I recognize that there are consequences to forcing my vision of morality on people who disagree.

I call myself pro-choice, because I don't think abortion should be generally illegal. I'd extend the same to a person who thinks that abortion is generally a good idea for people in these circumstances. Having an opinion about what choice someone makes doesn't keep you from believing they should have a legal right to make the choice.

[Anonymous]

At 17 I would probably try to guide my child to have an abortion, depending on how far along she was.

At 23 I would support whatever choice she wanted, assuming she doesn’t have a problems with substance abuse that would impact the pregnancy.

[Anonymous]

This seems like an odd definition of pro-choice.

Agreed. People without daughters can’t be pro choice?

[Anonymous]

I had this convo with my daughter a couple of years ago. I told her if she got pregnant, I’d encourage her to have an abortion, but would support whatever decision she made. She’s 20 now. My position hasn’t changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is this even a question? 1000% support my daughter to choose what she does with her body. And no, it’s not a BaBy! At 20 weeks a clump of cells the size of a golfball. If she needed later, I would trust what her doctor said. So unAmerican to be against a woman’s right to control her own destiny.

20 weeks? I only ever knew of one personally that had no knowledge at 16 weeks plus they were pregnant. Obese. I'm pro choice and the decision needs to be made far earlier than 20 weeks. VA had some weird proposed legislation that with a 1 doctor sign off could have allowed a fulll term healthy to be deemed a product. Yes that's ghoulish.

I have no idea if a DD or partner of a DS ever had one. If so it would have been before anyone familiar with them would have thought are they pregnant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is this even a question? 1000% support my daughter to choose what she does with her body. And no, it’s not a BaBy! At 20 weeks a clump of cells the size of a golfball. If she needed later, I would trust what her doctor said. So unAmerican to be against a woman’s right to control her own destiny.

You might want to look up what a 20 weeks gestation baby actually looks like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is this even a question? 1000% support my daughter to choose what she does with her body. And no, it’s not a BaBy! At 20 weeks a clump of cells the size of a golfball. If she needed later, I would trust what her doctor said. So unAmerican to be against a woman’s right to control her own destiny.

20 weeks? I only ever knew of one personally that had no knowledge at 16 weeks plus they were pregnant. Obese. I'm pro choice and the decision needs to be made far earlier than 20 weeks. VA had some weird proposed legislation that with a 1 doctor sign off could have allowed a fulll term healthy to be deemed a product. Yes that's ghoulish.

I have no idea if a DD or partner of a DS ever had one. If so it would have been before anyone familiar with them would have thought are they pregnant.

The one person I know who didn't know she was pregnant until 22 weeks is probably the skinniest person I've ever known.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meaning if your 17 or 23 year old daughter got pregnant, you’d emotionally support her 100% whether she decides to have and raise the kid, abort or give the kid up for adoption?

I would because I love her but I hope she would choose to snort. Having a child that young would ruin her life. I definitely would not want her to marry the father of the child.

If my sons impregnated a girl, we would give monetary support and, again, would not encourage marriage.

The above is for daughter or son under age 20 and under. By age 23, they should be old enough to make their own life choices and I would support their choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This seems like an odd definition of pro-choice.

Personally, I'd want my child to have the baby in most circumstances, because I think abortion is generally morally wrong. I think it should be her decision, though, because I recognize that there are consequences to forcing my vision of morality on people who disagree.

I call myself pro-choice, because I don't think abortion should be generally illegal. I'd extend the same to a person who thinks that abortion is generally a good idea for people in these circumstances. Having an opinion about what choice someone makes doesn't keep you from believing they should have a legal right to make the choice.

So abortion is morally wrong but forcing a woman to carry to term is morally fine so she can deliver andbe a broodmare for some woman who can't have children?

[Anonymous]

Are you asking if we would financially support our daughter's child?

[Anonymous]

I believe in choice, but I would do everything I could to encourage her to keep her pregnancy. Financial, emotional, housing, daycare, any kind of help she needs we’d provide. Grandchildren aren’t a certainty in life. Much less so than children. We’d even raise the baby ourselves if it came to that, although I can’t conceive of why that would happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This seems like an odd definition of pro-choice.

Personally, I'd want my child to have the baby in most circumstances, because I think abortion is generally morally wrong. I think it should be her decision, though, because I recognize that there are consequences to forcing my vision of morality on people who disagree.

I call myself pro-choice, because I don't think abortion should be generally illegal. I'd extend the same to a person who thinks that abortion is generally a good idea for people in these circumstances. Having an opinion about what choice someone makes doesn't keep you from believing they should have a legal right to make the choice.

So abortion is morally wrong but forcing a woman to carry to term is morally fine so she can deliver andbe a broodmare for some woman who can't have children?

DP, but where on earth are you getting that from PP's response?