Thread: You Will Regret Your Abortion

Originally Posted by Blackrook

My aunt had an abortion and it ruined her life.

This is my business and it is your business and it is everyone's business what happens to our fellow human beings.

The slave owners had the same argument "It's none of your business" but that didn't wash. It didn't wash then and it doesn't wash now

No disrespect towards your Aunt intended...I genuinly mean that.....but.........

If there are others in your family who would shame your Aunt, or call her a murderer, for having an abortion....and then possibly even impune her reputation as a result...I can see how that might ruin someone's life.

If none of this happened to your Aunt, I withdraw my statement...but you might want to consider the type of mental torture you might inflict upon women who undergo the perfectly legal procedure of pregnancy termination, for vaild reasons.

It's a fine line that seperates championing a moral cause with vigor and righteousness, and being part of a witch hunt.

Originally Posted by Blackrook

My aunt had an abortion and it ruined her life.

This is my business and it is your business and it is everyone's business what happens to our fellow human beings.

The slave owners had the same argument "It's none of your business" but that didn't wash. It didn't wash then and it doesn't wash now

I am very sorry for your aunt. . .but I'm not at all surprise IF EVERYONE IN YOUR FAMILY IS AS NARROW MINDED AND JUDGMENTAL as YOU are!

I also assume that you aunt is somewhat older than you are. . .maybe close to a generation older than you are? Is it possible that she had to resource to an illegal abortion or that she was pushed to terminate her pregnancy to avoid the "stigma" and rejection of her family and friends at a time when abortion was not legal. . .or even if it was legal, the mores of her community were as rejecting of early term abortion as you are today?

I have known several women who had abortions, including my sister who had five, beautiful children, three miscarriages, and 2 abortions!

Trust me. . .it has NOT ruined her life! Her 5 children are now high functioning adults, each of them with a family of their own (most have 3 children of their own), and who are expanding that very large family with a new generation of babies (two at this time).

It is all in the attitude! If you live in a supportive, loving family, and if you make the decision to abort for the RIGHT reasons, instead of feeling you have been "forced" into it by the "stigma" of being pregnant as a teenager or "out of wedlock," abortion remains a difficult decision (and I am certain than in all the women I personally know who had abortions, that decision was NEVER taken lightly), but it doesn't have to trigger a life long trauma or guilt trip.

Maybe you should wonder what role YOUR family played in allowing the early termination of a pregnancy to RUIN your aunt's life!

Originally Posted by Blackrook

Slavery was legal at one time.

Yep. . .and slave owners didn't mind selling those Black babies away from their mothers, right?

Who knows. . .maybe that's where abortion became "illegal!" It was taking away the "property" of the slave owner without their consent!

Is this what Capitalism and pro-choice philosophy have in common?

Women who have had an abortion tend to be wracked with guilt especially if they later on have kids. They seem to mourn this "tumor" thing they removed.

I don't know how many times a woman who had an abortion just went emotionally ballistic just from the subject being brought up. I've seen that in real life and on forums.

Originally Posted by Goldwater

I see......to whom is that price payed?

The person in the mirror if they have any kind of conscience.

All of your guesses are wrong. My aunt's abortion was perfectly legal. Her regret for having an abortion has nothing to do with the family's attitudes towards abortion. I can't say our family even has a consistent opinion about abortion. Most of her side of the family is not that religious. My personal influence on my aunt is nil, since I barely know her and haven't seen her for many years.

Originally Posted by Blackrook

All of your guesses are wrong. My aunt's abortion was perfectly legal. Her regret for having an abortion has nothing to do with the family's attitudes towards abortion. I can't say our family even has a consistent opinion about abortion. Most of her side of the family is not that religious. My personal influence on my aunt is nil, since I barely know her and haven't seen her for many years.

So, you're speaking for someone you admit you don't really know?

Originally Posted by CKW

Women who have had an abortion tend to be wracked with guilt especially if they later on have kids. They seem to mourn this "tumor" thing they removed.

I don't know how many times a woman who had an abortion just went emotionally ballistic just from the subject being brought up. I've seen that in real life and on forums.

You are absolutely wrong!

If women who had an abortion go "balistic," it is probably a good thing they didn't have a child. . .because they probably had some mental issues to begin with!

And I really wonder where all that "knowledge" comes from? The Pope? the Catholic Church? The Bible?

Or personal experience?

Originally Posted by Blackrook

All of your guesses are wrong. My aunt's abortion was perfectly legal. Her regret for having an abortion has nothing to do with the family's attitudes towards abortion. I can't say our family even has a consistent opinion about abortion. Most of her side of the family is not that religious. My personal influence on my aunt is nil, since I barely know her and haven't seen her for many years.

So. . .you can determine that a person you hardly know, and haven't seen for years had her life RUINED because of an abortion?

Did SHE tell you she had an abortion?
Or did some "kind soul" revealed that for you, to brainwash you in the state of mind you are in today about legal abortions?

And, are you sure you have the right to spread that kind of information about a person whom you hardly know?

Originally Posted by Kranes56

So, you're speaking for someone you admit you don't really know?

My father told me her story.

She had two marriages and two divorces during her "New York" days when she adopted the Manhattan lifestyle and the Manhatten lifestyle. At this time in her life, my aunt was unbearably elistist about New York and she practically ruined a trip to Disneyland because of it. She would not stop talking about how New York shows were better than Disney's Bear Country Jamboree.

During this time she also had an abortion. She never had any other living child.

She celebrates her dead child's birthdays. She mourns for him. She became a Christian, but God will not give her back her child.