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Gatorade Frost · 03-11-2005, 07:34 PM

I'm going to go out on a limb and ignore most of what everyone else has said and just give my thoughts.

First, I'm going to say that I firmly believe you can't have a real opinion on abortion until you'rep ut into the situation of needing one.

I grew up in a Baptist family ironically, but I grew up pro-abortion for some reason. When I hit around fourteen a friend of mine convinced me about the conception of humans and that they're people from birth, he went through all of these pictures of aborted children, went through all of these types of abortion, and pretty much just made me sick to my stomach at how wrong abortion was. I st uck by this until I was seventeen. I always fought the conservative-pro-life sentiment because I was honest to god convinced.

Then I started having sex.

Mind you, I never got my girlfriend pregnant (thankfully) but come two weeks late into her period the idea of pregnancy floated around several times (We were young and stupid, and for some reason we didn't use condoms - Something about my parents finding them and giving me what for, which is a whole different rant in itself). We were scared.
Society looks down on pregnancy.
Her sister had a son that was unplanned and it caused my girlfriend to despise her sister, the son caused a whole lot of problems for everyone. If it made my girlfriend despise her sister, how would she feel if she were pregnant herself? How would her family react? An unemployed parent having to raise two grand children without much money... Not pretty per se.

So we floated around the idea of abortion, and you know, it made me realise that you can't say what's right or wrong. What if we had gone through those nine months of pregnancy? She would've been sent to special programs in school, would've had to work, both of us, so she could go to the doctor, get everything she needed to grow a baby for nine months, and between us and our families it just didn't add up. Her being pregnant and giving up the baby wouldn't just possibly have messed up the baby but also my girlfriend's life and that wasn't fair for either of them.

I'm a firm believer in abortion. I think that it should be legal at practically any point because sometimes it's just what's best for everyone.

03-11-2005, 07:34 PM	#51 (permalink)
Gatorade Frost Rookie	I'm going to go out on a limb and ignore most of what everyone else has said and just give my thoughts. First, I'm going to say that I firmly believe you can't have a real opinion on abortion until you'rep ut into the situation of needing one. I grew up in a Baptist family ironically, but I grew up pro-abortion for some reason. When I hit around fourteen a friend of mine convinced me about the conception of humans and that they're people from birth, he went through all of these pictures of aborted children, went through all of these types of abortion, and pretty much just made me sick to my stomach at how wrong abortion was. I st uck by this until I was seventeen. I always fought the conservative-pro-life sentiment because I was honest to god convinced. Then I started having sex. Mind you, I never got my girlfriend pregnant (thankfully) but come two weeks late into her period the idea of pregnancy floated around several times (We were young and stupid, and for some reason we didn't use condoms - Something about my parents finding them and giving me what for, which is a whole different rant in itself). We were scared. Society looks down on pregnancy. Her sister had a son that was unplanned and it caused my girlfriend to despise her sister, the son caused a whole lot of problems for everyone. If it made my girlfriend despise her sister, how would she feel if she were pregnant herself? How would her family react? An unemployed parent having to raise two grand children without much money... Not pretty per se. So we floated around the idea of abortion, and you know, it made me realise that you can't say what's right or wrong. What if we had gone through those nine months of pregnancy? She would've been sent to special programs in school, would've had to work, both of us, so she could go to the doctor, get everything she needed to grow a baby for nine months, and between us and our families it just didn't add up. Her being pregnant and giving up the baby wouldn't just possibly have messed up the baby but also my girlfriend's life and that wasn't fair for either of them. I'm a firm believer in abortion. I think that it should be legal at practically any point because sometimes it's just what's best for everyone.