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In reply to the discussion: Abortion: Not easy, not sorry [View all]Adrahil
(13,340 posts)74. Well, you'll just have to live with it.
I DO think Abortion, in general, is a terrible, if sometimes necessary thing. I can't suddenly change my feelings on that because you think it makes me a "soft supporter." You'll just have to live with my support of a woman's right to make that decision even if I don't agree with her decision.
Frankly, this conversation leaves me flabergasted. I had no idea that my position could possibly be controversial.
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Divorced, three children, one severely disabled, one abortion. I did not want another child to raise
jwirr
Oct 2014
#8
it does have to do with money for a lot of women--they can't afford to have kids.
yurbud
Oct 2014
#19
I'm proud of you for doing what was right for you and for your future family.
PeaceNikki
Oct 2014
#22
Agreed, I use to believe I am pro choice but I would never have an abortion myself
Heather MC
Oct 2014
#43
One of the lies I have seen being spread now by the Christian Taliban is that women who terminate
PeaceNikki
Oct 2014
#64
A dear friend--a former Catholic Sister of Charity nun and extraordinarily credentialed nurse--
Ineeda
Oct 2014
#71
I've gladly helped a minor over the state line to bypass the shit parental notification.
PeaceNikki
Oct 2014
#29
I find it sad and pathetic when one cannot see a private medical decision which allows a woman to
PeaceNikki
Oct 2014
#54
I don't know why you feel it necessary to inject your 'personal feelings about the nature of the
PeaceNikki
Oct 2014
#57
I am not running for any office. But if you're implying you would vote against choice because I am
PeaceNikki
Oct 2014
#78
lol. are you talking about boob jobs? because that's how i feel about those.
La Lioness Priyanka
Oct 2014
#56
When I was younger, I didn't have a single female friend who hadn't had an abortion.
valerief
Oct 2014
#65