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[quote=Anonymous]I'm now pregnant with my fourth child, and having had children, I can say both that I would never want to have an abortion (knowing what I now know about fetal development and having seen so many ultrasounds of the process underway from 5 weeks on) AND that I fully support someone's right to choose whether to carry a pregnancy. Pregnancy has a profound impact on the life of any woman - even one intentionally and happily pregnant under the best of circumstances - and it is not and never will be appropriate for me to tell another woman whether she is required to go through a pregnancy.

I say that I would never want to have an abortion and I mean that with all my heart - but I don't kid myself and say I would never have one, especially now that I am mom to three kids to whom I have a responsibility. Had the pregnancy I'm now carrying turned out to have a significant genetic defect, I would likely have aborted because I would have thought it the right choice for my family. I would have been devastated by it, but would still believe it the right choice. Why would I ever deny choice to someone else?[/quote]

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