having been pregnant, i'm going to have to agree with mle.
sorry, guys. you can have your opinion and you can yell at me until you're blue in the face about the life growing inside my belly and how horrible abortion is, but you will never, ever be pregnant and know what it's like to COMPLETELY LOSE YOURSELF AND YOUR BODY for the rest of your life.
this may come as a surprise to most of you, but i don't think abortions are a good thing. i'm pretty sure that i'm in line with kevin here, save for one thing: i'm pro-choice. i do, however, think that we (society) need to work towards a day where abortion doesn't have to exist. i'm not quite sure how that should happen, but banning abortion outright doesn't seem like the first step here.
my mom had an abortion. my aunt did, too. my sister? yup. all of them were under the age of 20 when they got pregnant. they didn't have reliable income, a place of their own or men in their lives that gave two shits about them, let alone the life-experience that is needed to raise a child. i'm not making excuses for them, but it was their choice to make. the only person who regretted her decision was my aunt and that's because 5 years later she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had to have all her baby-making parts taken out rendering her barren (raising arizona
).
yeah so, i've rambled and not said much. oh here's another personal antedote: i got pregnant when i was 22. i decided to have the baby even though i was clueless and my boyfriend beat the shit out of me. i thought it would bring us closer together, you see. well, i thank god everyday that pregnancy ended in a miscarriage because there's no fucking way in hell that i'd want to be tied to that asshole (the ex) for the rest of my life. that's one of those things that a lot of people don't think about. you have a baby with someone and you are stuck with them forever. they may not be your husband, or your boyfriend, but they are your child's father...and that can be a very unpleasant situation if daddy is a jackass.
ok. the end.