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Old 09-25-2005, 09:18 PM
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Default your children are not your children

I consider it a human being from conception. Yeah we all know what the law says but that doesnt mean it is not murder, imo. As a woman who has bore children, I dont assume to own the child growing inside of my womb. It is a seperate entity, a unique individual with the will to live. I have no right to kill it simply because it is inconvenient or unwanted.

This is what is written in the chapter titled "Children" in the book "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
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