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Abortion should be safe and legal. Comprehensive sex ed should be a mandatory part of public school.
I have been afraid that I was pregnant before. I wasn't using anything at the time, because I only had one partner at that point, and Warin was snipped. Turns out I was a month late because of the amount of stress my body was under.
I have been certain that I was pregnant once. Louis and I were using condoms, because I wasn't sure if we could afford birth control pills for me. The condom didn't break; it unrolled and plastered itself against my cervix, inside out. Happened on Monday; I was on birth control by Sunday, waiting for my period be damned. You're not supposed to be able to tell after only a week. I was pregnant, and I know it; I felt it. Ludicrous fertility runs in my family. I choose to go on the pill, so that I (hopefully) wouldn't have to make a more painful choice a month or so later, and so that I wouldn't have to go through that again.
Because the part that hurt so much both times was the fact that I want a child. I want one very badly. Both times, we simply did not have the resources for another child, and I knew that. It would have been irresponsible in the extreme to have kept a pregnancy, hence the reason I was doing my best to avoid it both times.
I still don't know what my choice would have been, not really. The point is, it would have been my choice. Mine, and my husbands', since they would have been involved with the consequences of that choice. Our choice. No one else's.
No one else has the right to make that choice for us. No one. If you do not agree; if you think abortion should not be legal, then there is the door.
And then she heads for the clinic and/She gets some static walking through the door/They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner/And they call her a whore/God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in her shoes/'Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to choose
I have been afraid that I was pregnant before. I wasn't using anything at the time, because I only had one partner at that point, and Warin was snipped. Turns out I was a month late because of the amount of stress my body was under.
I have been certain that I was pregnant once. Louis and I were using condoms, because I wasn't sure if we could afford birth control pills for me. The condom didn't break; it unrolled and plastered itself against my cervix, inside out. Happened on Monday; I was on birth control by Sunday, waiting for my period be damned. You're not supposed to be able to tell after only a week. I was pregnant, and I know it; I felt it. Ludicrous fertility runs in my family. I choose to go on the pill, so that I (hopefully) wouldn't have to make a more painful choice a month or so later, and so that I wouldn't have to go through that again.
Because the part that hurt so much both times was the fact that I want a child. I want one very badly. Both times, we simply did not have the resources for another child, and I knew that. It would have been irresponsible in the extreme to have kept a pregnancy, hence the reason I was doing my best to avoid it both times.
I still don't know what my choice would have been, not really. The point is, it would have been my choice. Mine, and my husbands', since they would have been involved with the consequences of that choice. Our choice. No one else's.
No one else has the right to make that choice for us. No one. If you do not agree; if you think abortion should not be legal, then there is the door.
And then she heads for the clinic and/She gets some static walking through the door/They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner/And they call her a whore/God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in her shoes/'Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to choose
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Date: 2006-01-26 11:58 pm (UTC)For the most part...
Date: 2006-01-27 12:06 am (UTC)Personally, I wouldn't have an abortion. But that's cause I believe that an infant's life begins at conception (unique DNA and DNA is what determines life). I don't scorn people who have abortions and I won't tell them what to do. Its their, and their partner's choice. And we're wrong as a society to make that choice for them. Just as we're wrong to decide that we won't teach our children about sex, safer sex, and all that.
Anyway, minor rant on my part. Just letting you know that I agree with you.
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Date: 2006-01-27 01:30 am (UTC)Do I approve of abortion? No. Would I have had one? No. I also have not recieved the memo from God that He has gone fishing and I am in charge. It should be bewtween a woman, her doctor, and her God.
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:23 am (UTC)Second off, hallo, and how did you end up on my friends list?
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:47 am (UTC)You sounded like someone that would be interesting and stuff to learn more about.
-waves-
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Date: 2006-01-31 07:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-31 08:24 pm (UTC)The fact that the first post I saw when I scanned through your LJ was about trying to read something printed out in the "substitue 'f' for 's'" print was another reason. I, too have tried to muddle my way through stuff like that.
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Date: 2006-01-31 08:47 pm (UTC)Oh god, yes, that F. I so did not read that well *grin* It's not so bad when the entire typeface (?) is gothic, but it just kills me when the rest of the letters are completely normal. Argh. Annoying nineteenth century writers.
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Date: 2006-01-31 10:48 pm (UTC)Gessi