Comments | thelalaprincess: we were all in love and we all got hurt

thelalaprincess

we were all in love and we all got hurt

Jun 05, 2009 13:37

* From the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, found via Broadsides. This is really well said:
It is religious faith, not scientific reasoning, that asserts the “ensoulment” of a fetus at the moment of conception. As the Catholic Encyclopedia says: “In virtue of the one eternal act of the Will of the Creator, Who is of course ever present at ( Read more... )

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_venus_ June 5 2009, 18:38:55 UTC

That article was ... really, really sad. I can only pray I'm never in that situation, how horrible. Even though I already know what decision I would make (I would continue a pregnancy, even one that wasn't viable, as long as it wouldn't endanger my life, too), I completely understand how others wouldn't ( ... )

thelalaprincess June 5 2009, 20:05:30 UTC

It is a terrible situation. I don't know what decision I would make if I found myself unexpectedly pregnant, but in those circumstances, I can't imagine I would continue. It's just too sad and my heart aches for the women and their families who have had to go through that ( ... )

_venus_ June 6 2009, 00:14:38 UTC

That makes sense. I did hear that the doctor that was murdered was one of only a handful in the country that still performs late-term abortions. I didn't know about Roe vs. Wade protecting viability, though, because when I saw the report on the murder on CNN, they mentioned that the doctors determined the age of viability, but that may have been wrong.

I TOTALLY agree on not making the climate so that people are forced into that situation. We have a LOT of ridiculous stuff with abstinence-only education, difficulty in obtaining birth control, etc. that's really sad.

As for the ex-girlfriend ... really, it's not so much the abortion as what it says about the kind of person she is - she hates children, continued to use abortion as birth control, and now neglects and borderline abuses the children she does have.

Anyway, thanks for answering the questions - sorry if they come off as naive, I'm really out of the loop on all of this lately!

thelalaprincess June 6 2009, 04:31:02 UTC

Yeah, I think I read about viability being the legal standard set by Roe v. Wade somewhere, but I'm obviously a lot less comfortable speaking as any kind of authority on the state of American law. :) It makes sense that doctors would determine viability, however, because it's going to be dependent on a lot of factors related to the individual pregnancy, like how some premature babies live and others don't make it, even after the same gestation ( ... )

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