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I would personally never have an abortion. I feel it's wrong, it is taking the _potential_ life of a child even if performed within days of conception. I'm not sure at what point it becomes actual murder, but I'm sure it _does_. I _have_ been in the position where carrying a child to term endagered my own health and I chose to allow that child a chance. (He's a beautiful 6yr old now - smart and artistic, stubborn and BEAUTIFUL.) Having said that, I'm pro-choice. Why? Because I don't feel it's the government's right to tell a woman what she can and can't do to her own body. Flip it around - how would I have felt if it were illegal for me to have carried my 6yr old to term because it endangered my health and possibly my life? What if I had NO choice in the matter and they had terminated that pregnancy? I had already lost his twin. I may not agree with the decision to abort a child - it horrifies and disgusts me. But so do the situations of the children I work with that have parents who never wanted them. I deal first hand with kids whose parents should never have had them, never really wanted them, have abused and damaged them and then thrown them away. I can't say that it would have been better if they'd never had them, because two of them in particular are about to join my family. But I can't tell those women how to make that decision for themselves...
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