questioning your beliefs?

[kingbain]

I am pro choice, always have been, but you know what, I was never sure why. As I watch the Congress question judge alito I started to ask myself why I believe what I believe. I think I have always believed in pro choice because it was convienient for me because I hate kids but there is something deeper to this then just the surface I don't want kid

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[blkvelvet]

Well I am pro-choice as well. I go through many of the same questions when I think about it. I guess it's one of those things that is horrible to try to put a law on. I mean if a girl is raped or say she is 16 and too young to "deal" with a decision/effect like pregnancy it seems the woman should have the right to "kill it". The only thing that bugs me is the fact that some women are not careful enough to avoid pregnancy (you can avoid it ladies) or perhaps old enough (legal age of 18) to have the child and decided to abort it anyway because, who wants that responsibility. That bugs the crap out of me. You made the decision to have sex, now deal with the consequences. I do think there are circumstances where women should have the choice however. It's different for each woman. And what about the father? I mean what if the mother doesn't want to have the child but the male is willing to raise it on his own? Should she have to keep it? I say yes. Why? Because there is someone (one of the parents) who is willing and accepting of that responsibility. It's the father's child too. Then we get into a stickier situation.
Basically I am pro-choice. But there are also woman who cannot have children who could potentially adopt this baby and give it a wonderful life. So should the mother go through the pregnancy to give the baby up since it is her/their "whoops"? Perhaps. I reiterate por-choice as Bain did. It seems I tend to have more feelings toward pro-life but these are practical thoughts of morality and not my gut feeling.
So bottom line, women should be able to choose but I think there has to be intervention of some sort to keep abortion in some sort of check. I mean, there are girls who are having sex too young, use abortion as a birth control and have had multiple pregnancies. This is rediculous. Should there be a limit put on how many a woman should have before they say enough is enough? I mean it's not just aborting a baby, it's emotional (for many) and it hurts your body leaving some unable to have a child.
I guess I am where Bain is on this. It sucks so many ways you look at it, but it is the woman's body and right. I wouldn't abort, but that's my choice.