Roe vs. Wade....again

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Don M.

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It seems that recently there is a movement in several states to put severe restrictions on Abortion and effectively close down organizations like Planned Parenthood. What are your thoughts on this issue?

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/alabama-s...rtion-ban-014400714--abc-news-topstories.html

Personally, I think there are already far too many children being born to parents who either cannot afford, or have no desire, to raise them properly. I will agree with these anti-abortion activists when I see them lining up to adopt these unwanted children.
 

I'm pro-choice, and would want birth control to be easily available to all who need it via organizations like Planned Parenthood. Birth control to avoid the pregnancy in the first place is ideal, in my opinon.
 

I'm for sex education, easy access to birth control, the morning after pill and pro-choice.

IMO the need for an abortion in today's world would be extremely rare if we were all open and honest about sex education in the home and at school.

It's sad that we spend more time teaching a kid to drive a car than we do about something as important as sex.
 
Aunt Bea said:
It's sad that we spend more time teaching a kid to drive a car than we do about something as important as sex.
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SO THIS!!!

I was always extremely open with my kids about every aspect of sex and it covered everything from STD's to how to avoid pregnancy to the moral and ethical and emotional choices involved in all aspects.

4 of my kids are boys, and more than once I was saddened to discover that my boy knew WAY more about the female reproductive system than the girl he was dating! What is up with THAT???
 
I have very mixed views on abortion . Thankfully I was never in a position to have to make a decision on whether or not to have one. When a friend of mine had a child the girl was born with a lot of birth defects. She would never,walk or talk or see and many other things. They had a company called the Institute of Human Potential that helped her do a lot of things,but she never was able to function. 7yrs later her Dad was a fireman and killed in a fire. They took his wife to be examined before they could pronounce him dead. That's when my friend found out she was pregnant with her second child.They had to do amniocentesis on her to check if that baby would have the same health issue. Thankfully the child didn't have the same condition. If she hid have it and my friend decided to have an abortion I don't believe she would have been wrong. From that day I have always felt that my opinion on abortion should not judge someone that has one. I believe the only one that should make the choice is the woman that is pregnant.This is just my opinion.


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Don M. said:
It seems that recently there is a movement in several states to put severe restrictions on Abortion and effectively close down organizations like Planned Parenthood. What are your thoughts on this issue?

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/alabama-s...rtion-ban-014400714--abc-news-topstories.html

Personally, I think there are already far too many children being born to parents who either cannot afford, or have no desire, to raise them properly. I will agree with these anti-abortion activists when I see them lining up to adopt these unwanted children.
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Agree here!
 
Aunt Bea said:
I'm for sex education, easy access to birth control, the morning after pill and pro-choice.

IMO the need for an abortion in today's world would be extremely rare if we were all open and honest about sex education in the home and at school.

It's sad that we spend more time teaching a kid to drive a car than we do about something as important as sex.
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Agree here as well.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I'm for sex education, easy access to birth control, the morning after pill and pro-choice.

IMO the need for an abortion in today's world would be extremely rare if we were all open and honest about sex education in the home and at school.

It's sad that we spend more time teaching a kid to drive a car than we do about something as important as sex.
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I agree with every word you wrote and will go one step further. I think birth control should be widely available and very inexpensive, if not free.
 
If you don't like abortion, don't get one. It's that simple. It's not the government's business to legislate morality.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I'm for sex education, easy access to birth control, the morning after pill and pro-choice.

IMO the need for an abortion in today's world would be extremely rare if we were all open and honest about sex education in the home and at school.

It's sad that we spend more time teaching a kid to drive a car than we do about something as important as sex.
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I couldn't say it any better than this.
 
I think that since it will be a woman's responsibility to care for an unplanned child, she should have complete freedom in her reproductive rights. No brainer.
 
There's the morning after pill now that a woman can get without a prescription, so in a way no excuse. However, there should be no legislation about what a woman does with her own body. That's slavery.
 
I agree with all of the above.

Sassycakes, one sentence in your story was puzzling to me:

They took his wife to be examined before they could pronounce him dead.
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They examined his wife before they could pronounce him dead? Why? I don't understand.
 
Sunny said:
I agree with all of the above.

Sassycakes, one sentence in your story was puzzling to me:



They examined his wife before they could pronounce him dead? Why? I don't understand.
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It was to see if she was expecting because if she was the new baby would be covered from the Fire Dept.with Medical coverage and benefits due to the death of her Dad.
And she was covered as was her older sister until they turned 18yrs old.
 
I am pro-choice and I have adopted two disabled children. But I hate that Down syndrome babies are aborted practically to the point of extinction in the United States. People with DS are wonderful. It’s such a shame. These babies are highly adoptable, as are all the rest.

Still, I remain pro choice. It is not my place to judge.
 
It isn't an issue of morality. It's subjugating women by limiting their choices in life by denying them reproductive rights. It's a huge step backward IMHO.
 
Recently in my state of Ohio they made it illegal to have an abortion after 6 wks. of pregnancy. The ACLU is all over it and everyone is going nuts over it.

I would have never had an abortion if I had gotten pregnant but am pro-choice for others.
 
I think the thing that bothers me the most about this is the very people who want to deny women the right to an abortion are the ones who bitch the loudest about welfare costs for unwanted children.
 
Great timing when record numbers of young people are strung out on more types of dope than I ever heard of when I was 18. Sometimes it appears this country has no idea where it is headed. Sex is pushed on our youth at every turn through every medium and we think they won't get pregnant???!!!
 
Sassycakes said:

It was to see if she was expecting because if she was the new baby would be covered from the Fire Dept.with Medical coverage and benefits due to the death of her Dad.
And she was covered as was her older sister until they turned 18yrs old.
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That seems very intrusive, oppressive and insulting to me. A child born within 9 months from his death would have been assumed to be legally his here in NM. If there was any question, DNA would have solved the matter.
 

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