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originally posted by: windword
a reply to: WarminIndy
ME
Do you have a proposal how to stop someone from exercising their free will, even if it's used to rape?
YOU
Yes. we offered a solution but it was quickly rejected.
What solution can you offer to prevent someone from exercising their free will?
Don't you think that all the facts should be presented before making a choice? And you do realize that Thomas Jefferson believed that choices should be made after careful consideration and never should a young person make a choice because they don't understand all the facts, do you?
And just what careful consideration and weighing of evidence and facts did Adam and Eve use when they used their free will to bite the apple?
After Cain murdered his brother, did GOD prevent Cain, or anyone else from exercising their free will? Why do you think that you should be able to prevent someone from exercising their free will?
That's not right to push something that you won't even discuss what it is.
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: WarminIndy
That's not right to push something that you won't even discuss what it is.
I'm not now, nor have I ever "pushed" abortion. I am pro-choice. I believe that a woman's right to choose whether or not to become pregnant, and whether or not to become a parent is an inalienable right given to women by their creator.
I'm arguing that free will is sacred, and I asked you how you think you can prevent a person from expressing their free will. Education has everything to do with quality choices, but there's always a first time for everything, and learning happens in stages.
We can't prevent people from making choices that we disapprove of, we can only impose unfavorable consequences on those whose behavior we find unacceptable.
I was sitting in O.R.'s offices when I noticed a fetal development poster. The progression was so obvious, the eyes were so sweet. It hurt my heart, just looking at them. I ran outside and finally, it dawned on me. 'Norma', I said to myself, 'They're right'. I had worked with pregnant women for years. I had been through three pregnancies and deliveries myself. I should have known. Yet something in that poster made me lose my breath. I kept seeing the picture of that tiny, 10-week-old embryo, and I said to myself, that's a baby! It's as if blinders just fell off my eyes and I suddenly understood the truth — that's a baby!
I felt crushed under the truth of this realization. I had to face up to the awful reality. Abortion wasn't about 'products of conception'. It wasn't about 'missed periods'. It was about children being killed in their mother's wombs. All those years I was wrong. Signing that affidavit, I was wrong. Working in an abortion clinic, I was wrong. No more of this first trimester, second trimester, third trimester stuff. Abortion — at any point — was wrong. It was so clear. Painfully clear
originally posted by: eccentriclady
We have a cash for kids scandal going on here, each child brings you £50 (ish) in cash per week, the horror of this is, (perhaps off topic) if you one child by a guy earning 40k salary, you could easily get 5k in child maintenance each year, then your house and full benefits. so have 3 children by 3 guys each earning 40k, that gives you a free house, somewhere near 5k per year in cash, and 15k in maintenance. lifestyle of maybe 40k, for picking your one night stands carefully. what a reward!
Yes, of course you wouldn't say you "push" abortion, just like you wouldn't "push" someone driving drunk either. Why is that we make laws against driving drunk? Could it be because of the chances of someone being murdered?
Can I ask why the woman in the case Roe vs. Wade then regretted her decision to abort and then her case made the law in effect? If there is no psychological toll then why regret?
originally posted by: TritonTaranis
About as attractive as a clown IMO
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: WarminIndy
Yes, of course you wouldn't say you "push" abortion, just like you wouldn't "push" someone driving drunk either. Why is that we make laws against driving drunk? Could it be because of the chances of someone being murdered?
Nope, I don't push drunk driving either. The fact is, we can't prevent someone from driving under the influence and causing an accident. We can only impose punishment after the fact, and restrict their future liberties.
Can I ask why the woman in the case Roe vs. Wade then regretted her decision to abort and then her case made the law in effect? If there is no psychological toll then why regret?
If not her, someone else would have presented the same case before the Supreme Court, and the ruling would have been the same. Rove V Wade represented not just one woman's interest, it represented all women (and their doctors).
There will always be regrets, but we can't forbid things on the grounds that someone may have regrets later.
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: WarminIndy
I think that you're under the false impression that making something illegal stops people from doing that thing. If you think that making abortion illegal is going to prevent abortion, you're sadly mistaken.
originally posted by: WarminIndy
Yes, people have a choice but that doesn't mean we need to make their choice easy and never tell them the truth about what they are really doing. The girl here in this thread had a choice to use birth control, but she didn't. She had a choice to not be a prostitute, but she is.
She had the choice to abstain but you are not defending her choice to abstain, you are only defending her right to an abortion. When you speak to people on these threads who say that abstinence is a moral choice, do you ever defend them?
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: WarminIndy
Yes, people have a choice but that doesn't mean we need to make their choice easy and never tell them the truth about what they are really doing. The girl here in this thread had a choice to use birth control, but she didn't. She had a choice to not be a prostitute, but she is.
She had the choice to abstain but you are not defending her choice to abstain, you are only defending her right to an abortion. When you speak to people on these threads who say that abstinence is a moral choice, do you ever defend them?
I was married with 2 living children. I was on birth control. I got pregnant.
CHOICE: take care of the living children I already had. You can call that a moral choice if you like.
I have zero regret in my decision. I was informed and made an intelligent decision.
FACT: there is not one unselfish reason to bring another living person into this world.
I don't see why prostitution is relative.
Exploitation: now that's a different discussion all together. I haven't decided if she is just stating fact, or being exploitive for gain.
Seems to me it is the media that is being exploitive for gain.
originally posted by: flammadraco
a reply to: SolarZen
Considering the goal of this site, I'm very surprised at the way you people respond to these things. Honestly a bit ugly.
What's really ugly is that this poor excuse of a woman has sought press attention to enhance her 15 mins of fame by announcing she's having an abortion at 18 weeks so she can appear on Big Brother.
I for one am pro choice and whilst I don't like abortion, it is a woman's choice, but to leave that until 18 weeks and to do it for the reasons she's given is disgusting.
There is no excuse for this, even if what others are saying is true that she has issues, low self esteem etc, does not excuse the fact that she's a fame hungry whore. And I'm not saying this due to her profession as a whore, I'm saying this because she is the lowest of the low in my mind. She has done this to get more attention, I'm glad she's no neighbour of mine.