having a pro-choice president is such a welcome change!

[indigokare]

i am thrilled, ecstatic, etc etc etc! i am too excited to really type at the moment (it's 730am and i am dancing around my kitchen!). this is one of the things i hoped for most in obama's first week of president! FINALLY... a president who is pro-choice after eight long (and scary) years. now THIS is "change i can believe in

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[jakpot7]

I just wish the baby had a choice too. I know that probably makes you mad, and it's really not meant to. Just expressing my feelings the same way you are. I'm sure you've heard all the arguments, and you have yours prepared and ready to go so that you can respond to feelings like mine with wonderful debate and sharp wit. But I was an inconvenient pregnancy for my unmarried mom and dad. They got married, then divorced, I had a really bad childhood, we were very poor, I was abused, the whole typicial mess you might hear from time to time

[pigri]

not for nothing, but if you'd never been born, would you have known the difference? i am truly sorry for your bad childhood and situations you've lived through, and i am glad for you that you are happy and don't hate your parents and aren't perpetuating the cycles of poverty, abuse, and neglect that statistically go along with unwanted pregnancies. BUT. to assume that every unwanted child would make the choice to be born to parents who don't want him/her is as short sighted as assuming that the pregnant women who abort don't consider that as part of their choice.

[jakpot7]

Wow, how extremely cold it is to say that it would have been fine to take my life as long as I didn't know it. This is where we are very, very different. I see life as such a treasure, even with all that I've been through, that it's never o.k. to take it, even if I would have never known the difference. It hurts my heart to know you feel that way

It's me...

[jakpot7]

Wow, how extremely cold it is to say that it would have been fine to take my life as long as I didn't know it. This is where we are very, very different. I see life as such a treasure, even with all that I've been through, that it's never o.k. to take it, even if I would have never known the difference. It hurts my heart to know you feel that way

[pigri]

there are so many facets of this issue that turn my crank, but really? gagging family planning outlets that even DISCUSS abortion? and then criticize women who have kids they don't want, can't afford? it's such crap, especially when you consider the astounding numbers of rapes in other countries. AND you don't give any support to end the poverty and infant mortality rates associated with all the unplanned/unwanted births? apparently these women are getting knocked up because they don't love jesus and practice abstinence.

[lady_hedge]

apparently these women are getting knocked up because they don't love jesus and practice abstinence.

O That's what they want you to think.

[pigri]

Gagging family planning outlets? Please stick to the facts, now. That was never what was being done. The policy just ensured that American money (in other words, my tax dollars) were not provided to overseas groups that educated or advocated abortion. They weren't shut down, they just had to get funding from somewhere other than my pocket. You're still free to support them with your money as a charitable contribution if you choose to do so. By they way... do you? And they are still free to teach what they will.

Be careful, everyone... the truth is already getting stretched to support a viewpoint here.

[indigokare]

i just got back online after posting this morning to this shitstorm.

i am on my way back out, but i am disabling anonymous commenting here. if these are your views, that is fine. i disagree, but you are entitled to them. HOWEVER, if people like pigri, princesskitu, and lady_hedge. are going to make their comments known publicly and non-anonymously, then i think it's only fair for everyone to do the same.

i am so not cool with anonymous posting unless the poster is just a friend of mine who doesn't have a LJ who wants to reply quickly to one of my blog entries. but in that case, people usually identify themselves. i am SO NOT COOL with this kind of anonymous posting. if these posts are all from the same person, i'd appreciate if you'd post under your LJ name. all of my LJ friends are sane. no one is going to go to your personal journal or userpage and harass you...

edit again: i can't figure out how to disable anon. comments on a single post, and i don't have much time to figure it out. so i am asking, if you are going to post anon please at least

[lady_hedge]

I'm celebrating too. I look forward to his efforts to reverse the previous administrations attack on women's rights and to further the options of choice

[princesskitu]

good for him! i'm so happy to see that.

some people make me question how far we've really come...and then someone like this shines some sunshine through and it renews my faith in man just a bit.

[thunderemerald]

Yes yes YESSSS!