life is good, im alive and well, happy and together. but i need your help!

[thegoose]

To anyone in Livejournal land who still reads this, I have an important question to ask you all

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Are you really pro-life?

[thegoose]

Are you sure you know what that means? Because your descriptive response, clealry indicates that you are pro-choice. Do you disagree with the statement that a woman should have the right to choose whether or not she should keep an unwanted pregnancy? Because I think that the legalities of whether or not she should isn't the issue, regardless of circumstance. I think the gray area can sucessfully be eliminated, and in doing so, we face a yes or no question in terms of our own, personal ethics. Taboos aside. Politics aside. The question I am nudging comes down to the cold hard fact of whether or not it is okay to kill an unborn fetus? Regardless of whether or not the woman was raped, whether or not she actually wants to share her body, whether or not the pregnancy is intended, does it really matter? The issue at hand is whether or not we have an actual SAY in if that unborn fetus should have the potential future taken away from it. The potential growth inside the uterus; the potential sprouting of fingers and toes; the potential release from the placenta; the potential breastfeeding, toddler stages, college career. Is it moral that we actually have a say in another potential human beings future?

Circumstance is clearly a huge issue when looking at abortions on an individualized basis. However, is it still moral for a woman who didn't want to become pregnant to begin with (by practices of unsafe sex, rape, etc.) to have a say in whether or not that unborn fetus should or should not have its rights taken away from them? Is this truly moral or immoral?

And lastly, we are all here today as a result of a decision, that our mothers chose to keep us. By choice or force, we were not aborted. But if we were, we would not be having the opportunities, the ups, the downs, of the life we live today. Would it have been okay for someone other than ourselves to completely take that away?

Moral or Immoral?

Re: Are you really pro-life?

[ohsami]

I'm stumped. I guess its just not our choice and that makes it immoral. But it could have never ever been our choice, thats impossible. But it also could be moral because it's what the two people who made us decide, for the better of the child or for the worse.