Comments on: Pro-choice Vs Pro-life

By: pro-choicer

pro-choicer — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:29:49 +0000

i completely know where thirtysixandcounting is coming from, i just went through the same thing (almost). when i got pregnant again, my daughter was eleven months, but i just could not imagine having another one, i was overwhelmed already.
and i completely agree with you when you talk about extremisits who bomb clinics and kill abortion doctors (most of which seem to men who never have to make this choice) and then claim to be pro-life! you just killed someone, you arent pro-life!

By: Suki

Suki — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:28:22 +0000

Excellent point. “Pro-life”? Gah. You wish.

I hate it when people try to force their choices on other people, in whatever form. What was wrong with letting them choose, I ask you? i feel the California emotional blackmail is even more underhanded than an outright ban on abortion!

It comes back to just one thing. Not letting people choose legally simply means they have to choose the illegal ways of getting what they want. It’s just pushing issues under the carpet. I wonder why the Wise Men of this earth are oblivious to that simple fact.

By: Aparna

Aparna — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:01:00 +0000

Pro-life – baah!!

Am not that good in expressing myself sometimes. All I could manage was this.

By: utbtkids

utbtkids — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:46:41 +0000

Hi 36:
Welcome to my blog. There is nothing worng in what you did. It is just a matter of personal choice. I was browsing through your posts. Loved them. Will de-lurk and leave a comment in you blog soon!

By: thirtysixandcounting

thirtysixandcounting — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:32:09 +0000

That was an interesting post… I was in the strange position of having tried for eight years through conceive through assisted fertility, and having had my son, conceived again promptly when he was just three months and I was going insane with post partum depression. I opted for a termination, and today know that it was the right decision. I would not have been stable to care for two young children…what I am trying to say is that the onus of decision should always be on the mother who has to care for the children not on political groups. At the end of the day, a child not born is better than a child born to a mother who cannot give the child the attention and the care it deserves…for whatever reason, financial, emotional or otherwise…

By: B o o.

B o o. — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:49:37 +0000

Thats a very well thought out post. Nothing is personal anymore. Everything is an “issue”! That article you linked was an eye opener. Thats an angle I never thought about.
By the way, who came up with this “Pro life” thing? As opposed to us who are against life? They are anti abortionists, that what they are and anti choice for that matter!

By: utbtkids

utbtkids — Thu, 31 May 2007 05:44:44 +0000

RBDANS! Well, well well, I didn’t know you had a blog. Pardon me for the judgement, but I thought UR hubby was the blogging type.
You are going to mention my name and tear my secret identity in to shreds-eh?! I am not loosing any sleep over it. I am neither Spiderman nor Batman, so it is not going to cause any kind of damage!
MM, regarding forced sterlizations, there was an Oprah episode where the lady claimed that she was sterilized without her knowledge. She was a drug addict in high school and she had gotten pregnant and from a low income group family. The abortion medication that the rehab center used on her has proven to have sterilization as a side effect. 15 years later, now she had a college degree and a good income and is happily married and desperately wants to have kids but can’t.
May be she was one of those victims of the eugenics movement.

By: rbdans

rbdans — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:40:58 +0000

Very well written. I can’t agree with you more. Wonder if any of these pro-life policitians have ever given birth or raised a trisomy/birth defect child. My personal feeling – men should not be allowed to speak on womens rights, as simple as that.

BTW, did not know about this blog. Stumbled on it from boo’s and noon’s blog. I know you so well, am worried I am going to spell you name out in the comments
Hey, just kidding, don’t loose the teeny bit of sleep you are getting.
I got to catch up with your other posts.

By: the mad momma

the mad momma — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:30:45 +0000

wow… i see… no, i did realise that it was just a phase… but it was scary to think of something like that happening.. i am sure it no longer happens…