Originally Posted by VitaminH

A few days ago, an old high school friend came into my city of residence here and stopped by for a visit. We went out to lunch and were chatting and all that. Over lunch he was telling me about how he's been semi-dating a co-worker. This is all irrelevent except to set up how far removed I am from these people. This co-worker of his (whom shall henceforth be referred to as 'his girlfriend' for simplicity's sake) told him about a friend of her's she had just run into. His girlfriend (and her friend) is a few years younger (roughly 20 i think) than myself and is from a differnt town than I grew up in as well.

So his girlfriend was chatting with her old friend and her friend confessed she and her current boyfriend had had unprotected sex and she was now pregnant. His parents knew, but her's didnt and she didn't want to tell them. When his girlfriend asked her what she was going to do, as she probably couldn't hide it forever she responded with she didn't want to have it, but she also didn't want to go to an abortion clinic. Her solution? "I'm just going to drink it to death."

Upon hearing this, my head exploded and I flew off the handle even though the mother wasn't present.

If I had been present upon hearing something like this from the mother I probably would have gone insane. I just flat out can't understand how anyone could do something like that. I try to stay out of the whole abortion debate but for the love...if you're going to do it at least do it with a health professional who knows what he/she in a controlled medical setting!

I truely wish I had some way of getting to this girl or at least her family or something so someone could attempt to intervene. I seriously wanted to vomit up my lunch when I heard those words out of his mouth and he was just retelling the story. It frustrates me to no end that someone could just do that. Not to mention she'll probably just end up with a severely retarted deformed baby instead of what could have been a healthy one.

I don't even know what else to say, except that I am disgusted.