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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only reason you pro choice people can be on this thread is because you weren't aborted. How many of you would be ok with it if your parent had decided to abort you?[/quote]

You do realize that if I'd been aborted, I would never have been born and therefore couldn't have feelings about my abortion?

I don't have any narcissistic complexes to think that the world wouldn't turn without my existence.  My parents would have had another kid.  that kid might have gone into the world and done so many more things than I ever did.  We don't lament that non-person's life that never occurred.

Again, this is just another excuse to shame women for having sex.  [/quote]

+1. I likely exist because my mother had an abortion at age 23. If she'd had that baby, I highly doubt she would have gone on to have me (at age 34) and my sister (at age 36). She didn't want kids until her 30s.

Maybe that baby she aborted at age 23 would have brought peace to the Middle East. Maybe h/she would have been the next Hitler or Stalin. We'll never know. And like PP, though I am pleased to be here, I don't have any illusions that my life is important to anyone except me and my family.

I, personally, would have a very hard time aborting for anything other than a major disability or defect or health risk to me. But that's easy for me to say because if I found myself with an unexpected and unwanted pregnancy, I have the financial resources to raise the child. A lot of people don't and I'm not going to judge their choices. The interests of a non-viable fetus do not supersede those of the person already here. If we had the technology to incubate the fetus externally from the get-go, I might feel differently. But as it is, there's a hard choice to be made sometimes, and I feel strongly that the needs and wants of the person who already exists should take precedence.[/quote]

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