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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love young people expressing themselves and how they respect life.[/quote]

They love it until they find themselves unexpectedly pregnant. Then the lightbulb goes off about how important legal abortion is. I witnessed this personally 7 times growing up as friends who were against abortion in theory were all for it when it was THEM.[/quote]

So what does this say about their character? or really, human nature?

Most people are in self-preservation mode.  Most are selfish.  Most judge w/o having any true experience with a topic.  The whole immigration thread is one such example.  It's easy to judge when it doesn't directly impact you.

So you can be anti-abortion if you're not affected by an unplanned/unwanted pregnancy.

But even if this is human nature, there are still many who don't fit the mold for many reasons.

For one 15 yo who's negligent (and who knows why?  impulsive?  poor parenting?  rebellious?), abortion may be the only answer.   For another, keeping the child may be an option b/c she's seen others around her keep their babies.  And although premarital sex is against her religion, she's keeping the baby b/c abortion goes against her religious beliefs too.  Maybe she decided to initially keep the baby but at birth has a change of heart and opts to give the baby up.

I've taught MANY teens who decided to keep their babies, and for some, this decision negatively impacted their lives. For others, with loving support of extended family, the decision was fine.  Most of the time, however, the father was absent.

I personally don't know how I feel about late-term abortions, however.  I sometimes think this decision is a slippery slope, but I'm not my sister's keeper either. [/quote]

Hello it’s the 18 year old again. I just want to say that since I’ve been a teen for a while now, I can understand what goes on in teen’s heads. There are teens who are negligent and impulsive and do things that they immediately regret. But something I’ve learned is that we always have a choice. I’ve known that everything I’ve done wrong was my own choice. It’d be easy for me to make up excuses but I know I have to take responsibility for my actions. After a certain age (probably like 7 or 8), I had a clear sense of what was right or wrong , and whether I was doing something that my parents wouldn’t approve of. I think sometimes, and it’s just my personal opinion, that people think teens don’t know if they’re doing something wrong. But anyways, I can’t speak for everyone, and people have different life situations and are educated differently, so it’s just my thoughts.[/quote]

Why do you believe you were so self-aware at 7 or 8? I'm not saying it's impossible, but it is rare based on what I've seen in the classroom over the 20+ years in education.

What were your parents like?  Did they NOT helicopter you?  Were you able to experience failing w/o having them swoop down to save you?  Did they talk to you instead of AT you?

very curious about factors that shaped your perspective[/quote]

The biggest factor that shaped my opinions, like abortion, would be my teachers. [b]My school is mostly conservative[/b]  so there’s not a lot of dissenting opinions. I read other comments saying that I have a very black and white view about stuff, and I guess you could say that it’s true. I guess I feel like most, not all, things like abortion are either good or bad. Anyways this is just to answer your questions about what factors shaped my perspective.[/quote]

Catholic or Christian school? 
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And what does your school teach re: sex and birth control?

Are you encouraged to go to anti-abortion protests?

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My school doesn’t really teach about brith control, although we know what it is.

And no, we aren’t encouraged to attend protests.[/quote]

Do they teach sex ed at all?

Do you think that they should teach about birth control?

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They teach basic sex ed. Most people already know how it works way before they teach it.

I think that they should teach about birth control methods and things like that, because it’s good to be informed. Of course,  since their message is no premarital sex they don’t didsuss it much [/quote]

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