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Originally Posted by Quasi-Experimental";p="
Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend you. It was my first post. I was gauging the audience..
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I view my body as sovereign territory over which there is only one ruler, ME.
I can do with it as I please, treat it with respect or abuse it (as we all do to some degree and in some form or other)
I believe abortion is a terrible thing BUT
The woman who carries a baby in HER BODY should be extended the same sovereignty over her body as I expect for myself.
Thus
Regardless of whatever anyone else thinks
Regardless of the passion with which they hold their view
Regardless of how abortion may offend them and how it would never, ever, be their choice -
The choice is still that individual lady, coming to terms with one of the most critical and terrible decisions it is possible for anyone to have to make.
If she chooses to go full course and deliver - fine
If she chooses to terminate then, that is her sovereign choice and not for me or you to deny her.
If she terminates then she will carry the burden of that decision with her to the grave and ultimately be held accountable for her action by a higher authority.
I do not believe the decision to abort is easy. I know someone who has made such a decision in the past and I know it effects her still after 30 years.
As to your specifics
"Don’t you think that the woman should exercise her right to choose what she does with “her” (which is no longer her own when she is pregnant) before engaging in an act that is intended to create life? And if she engages in that act? Wouldn't that be the more appropriate time to choose between carrying and not carrying a baby? "
A womans body is and always remains "her" body regardless of her being pregnant - or not. Critically when a baby emerges from the womb the mother remains in her body. Because she is pregnant does not diminish her "sense of self" one iota - unless you presume a pregnant woman is no more than the life support system for a womb.
"At what point does she (the pregnant woman) change from behaving irresponsibility (contraception or not); to being the rally point for 500,000 people in the streets of DC and the poster child for woman’s suffrage? "
Don't know and don't care... I am not talking about rallies but a womans irrefutable right to choose.
"I guess you could say I am pro-choice. It’s just that the man and woman should exercise that choice before they have sex, and accept the consequence after having sex."
That "choice" is not always an available option and not all the "consequences" are necessarily known at the moment of "sex"
"Adoption is a viable alternative" - that is a presumption which, again may not, necessarily, be available.