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I am against abortion for religious reasons.

Also, in high school I went with a friend to have an abortion out of naively thinking I was supporting her. I have never seen anything so grotesque in all my life and I pray I never will again.

Ironically, I saw this same friend's daughter be born a few years later. What a strange situation to be in. It was supposed to be a joyous moment but at that time I was so sorrowful for the babies she had killed.

I am willing to bet that those who support abortion would at least think twice if they saw it actually happen.

I recently saw a study (can't remember where) that said that this generation (those in high school and college) is the most pro-life generation since the 1950's.  They attributed this to the fact that they have grown up seeing sonogram pictures on their frig and on facebook and they have heard the debates related to partial-birth abortion.  I am going to try and find it again.  It was interesting and encouraging.

Here's where you are hugely wrong and why this gets so heated, being pro-choice is NOT NOT NOT being "pro abortion". It's being pro CHOICE. It's being of the thought that it should be up to the individual who's body it is to make the decision. Do pro lifers really think that we pro choicers are cheering for abortions? It's insane to me and offensive every time I hear it.

So, let me say it again. Pro Choice does NOT equal pro-abortion. It means pro CHOICE. Break it down simpler? It means to be in favor of having the freedom to make one's own's choices.

I think being pro-choice is "for abortion" -meaning you believe abortions should be allowed to happen and that women should have the right to choose if they want one.  Pro-lifers don't think anyone is standing on the sidelines cheering women into clinics and pushing people to get abortions.  Its just a matter of semantics.

Until you walk in someone's shoes that truly that is in an unfathomable situation, I belive in being pro-choice.  If that right were taken away, we would have so many women going to unsafe places to try to do it anyway.  I am not pro-abortion, but I am FOR SURE pro-choice. 

Nowhere else in society do we have the "choice" of killing another person.  Killing an innocent baby who cannot defend itself.  We have laws against killing animals (cute puppies, kittens, etc.).  We have laws against killing defenseless children and adults who are incapacitated and cannot speak for themselves.  Yet, it's okay to allow women to kill their defenseless baby, just because it hasn't made it out of the womb yet.  Saying you are for "choice" but not for abortion is a cop-out.  Either you support abortion, or you don't.  Pick a side of the fence and then stand up for it. 

If I could add a little something more to the discussion, I'm also curious about the thoughts from people on the Tim Tebow commercial that is scheduled to be shown during the Super Bowl.  His mother was told by her doctors to have an abortion due to infections and she chose not to.  Tim and his mom are going to appear in a commercial to talk about her decision to carry him to term and not abort.  It's apparently really upsetting pro-choice advocates and I would like to hear people's thoughts as to why his mother's choice is so inflamatory.

For me, I used to be pro-choice when I was younger, but am no longer.  The idea of abortion makes me physically sick.  I do struggle with the issue when it comes to rape.

First, I do not consider myself to be pro-choice...I am 100% pro-life (my boss, who is Catholic, says I am more like a Catholic in this regard) as I don't personally believe that any spiritual 'good' can come from a 'man-induced' death: murder, abortion, capital punishment and medically induced (sp?) deaths.

However, like I said on the other post ( really don't want to go back and retrieve my comments...but you know what I am referring to, Jimmi) I won't judge those who choose this route...for it is not my place to judge them (thank goodness, phew!).

I have personally seen what abortion can do to someone spiritually (of course, even one can be forgiven for this act...according to my pastor anyways...he said there were people in our church who admittedly had an abortion...who it is, I don't know and don't care, he was just using it as an example to show me God's Grace through Christ)...anyways, that's my 2 cents...so, I just pray that there are less people who choose to, or have to, endure a 'man-induced' death in their lives...on any level.

 

Oh, and for the record, I don't ever want to tell anyone what to do with their body...that is a different stance about government intervention that I am totally against...the decision should be between a woman and her doctor...I am just not pro-abortion.

Phew, just in case there is anyone reading who doesn't already know I am a Libertarian as well as a Christian.  ;)

I get that there is a difference between pro-choice and pro-abortion.  What I can't get past is the fact that it's no longer just that woman's body...there is a baby who never gets the chance to make a choice.  Also that baby has a father and yet the choice is ultimately the mother's.  But even those arguments aside...it's killing an innocent person and I just don't think that's ok.  I will never understand why someone should have the right to choose to kill a baby.