Obama’s priority: abortion on demand

by Kevin

3 comments

1 Candace { 10.18.08 at 12:32 pm }

My body and my life are my business, and any and all medical procedures are my right, as long as I can pay for them.

Let’s see: 1 Abortion @ $500, or keeping the pregnancy at $500,000, while requiring public assistance to feed, clothe, and shelter the child forced into a girl/woman through RAPE or INCEST, or indiscretion due to lack of responsible sex-ed.

Try seeing the other side, and you might see that “abortion on demand” might actually be the option to leave open for moments in young women’s lives when terminating the pregnancy really IS the least of all evils.

No one WANTS to need an abortion, and yes, the regret stays with all involved for a very long time. But, candidly, I regret the actions and mis-actions that led to the pregnancy, but I DO NOT regret the carefully considered choice to have an abortion.

I paid for it myself, I dealt with it myself, and I grew up that day. I still do not have children, because I will be absolutely certain they are PLANNED and prepared for, so their father and I can provide all they will need, and most of what they want.

My husband and I love children, and we are almost ready to start our family. In our marriage of 9 years, we have already conquered Alcoholism and long, painful, parental illnesses and deaths, as well as Depression in both of us. We are NOW ready to look forward and plan for having children, now that we are done with the past and our marriage is strong. Even 5 years ago, we were not ideal candidates for parenthood and we were both 30 yrs old then.

Here’s the problem with Life:
It isn’t always ideal. It isn’t always fair. And, it isn’t always right or just, either.

Poop, wars, election irregularities, drastic economic downturns, and unintended pregnancies all happen, all too often.

When a teenager, I never thought about wanting an abortion. Who would? Especially without anesthesia. ( It literally felt like my insides were being ripped out.) I was 18 when I found out, and about to start college for Architecture. But, college dreams or not, I knew myself well enough to know that, due to the multitude of parental mistakes of my parents with me,
I WAS IN NO MENTAL CONDITION TO CARRY THE PREGNANCY TO TERM, LET ALONE KEEP THE RESULTING CHILD. And, the father was of absolutely NO use.

It was a almost a miracle I got through the first 18.25 years without an addiction or some other majorly debilitating problem.

This is my story. I support what others would call “abortion on demand,” because the road of Life rarely involves living in the house of Continuously Ideal Circumstances.
And, besides, I am responsible (read: must bear the consequences) for MY mistakes. Who am I to judge what another finds necessary to do?

Hopefully this will provide some insight for those who have never been in my position.

(Any hate mail you send me will be promptly deleted, so please don’t bother. We’re all humans; let’s at least be civil. )

2 Steven S. { 11.02.08 at 5:34 pm }

I understand your veiws abortion should be presented when certain criteria are presented. Such as rape, but I also feel that otherwise abortion should be limited at the very least.

3 Kelly { 11.05.08 at 6:40 pm }

I’m 19 and i was raised in a strong catholic pro-life family. i have 11 siblings. i was always taught to wait untill marriage. but i met this guy and school and things happend. I got pregnant, and I was scared shitless….i thought my parents would dissown me. My boyfriend left me. And I was seriously considering abortion. I just got a full ride to where I wanted to go to school…So this baby was really messing up my perfect world. But I couldn’t stop thinking. This is a baby! Not just tissue…This isn’t my “problem” but my child. So I now have a 11 week old baby girl..I named her anna and she is gorgeous. My parents were right there for me. So now people are saying its okay to kill your own child up untill birth. So the baby is only safe once he/she is out? ….
We’re smarter than this. Anna is my life. I can’t imagine thinking about he not being here and living with the guilt.
Obama was elected so it will probably pass. But We aren’t this dumb. Its a BaBy. what else is going to come out? a Cabbage?

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