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nailedit | 19:47 Fri 24th Jan 2025 | ChatterBank
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Can i get peoples views on abortion?

This subject tends to come up in religious debate quiet a lot but as an atheist (and a male) I am never going to have to face this dilema.

However, I have to say that i cannot wrap my head around any potential mother wanting to kill a life that is developing inside of her.

A previous GF of mine had 2 abortions (before I met her) and I couldnt understand the casualty with which she dismissed the ending of 2 lives.

Thanks!

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As a male, I agree with you.    The women who bang on about a woman's right to control her body seem to deny that right to any woman in their womb. 

choices, as a male it's eas yto walk away, we have thousands+ of feral children running amok in the uk, personally as a male, it's about choice and not religion or any other concern, in the end it's there body and not yours! CHOICES and it's a good thing.

Pregnant by rape? Yes, abortion should be available.

Life in danger if pregnancy continues? Yes, abortion should be available.

In the early stages, most definitely not in 3rd trimester.

As an aside, there was a prolife march in Wasington d.c. today and one of the speakers was a man who was an abortion survivor. 

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//CHOICES and it's a good thing//

 

Choices to kill babies is a good thing?

 

Please tell me that I have read that wrong....

I am pro choice, it is the woman's right to have control over her body.

But I don't personally agree with abortion unless in exceptional circumstances.

I had an abortion of a very much wanted and loved baby at 20 weeks. My waters broke too early and although I held on as long as I could it was making me so unwell that my life was at risk. I had another child at home and there was no way that Aurelia would survive at 20 weeks, nor hold off being born for another 4 weeks till she was viable So it was a choice I made.

She actually survived for 20 minutes on my chest. She spent her whole life surrounded by love, and had 20 minutes more love than some children get in their lives.

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I cannot understand how any woman with a child developing in her could terminate that childs life.

Maybe with an exception of rape or incest.

I can live with people like you saying such insensitive things as I made a choice to kill a baby. It's taken a few years though to not get exercised about that though

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bednobs, that is tragic.

So sorry. x

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Cross post obviosly...

 

But you were just very clear that your only exception was rape or incest, and she was neither or

I don't think any woman makes the decision to have an abortion lightly.

So perhaps you would agree it's much more nuanced than you originally thought

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bednobs,

you had a traumatic experience.

 That wasnt the purpose of my OP.

I really am so sorry for ur experience. That would have been awful to deal with.

Thanks, I get that and it's not (particularly!) my intention to make you feel bad, just trying to point out that women who have abortions do so for varying reasons; probably as many reasons as there are abortions. Yet people still say things such as you have, making sweeping assumptions about such women. Just trying to open your eyes and mind a bit

In general I would be happier for people who can't cope with being a parent, or are in circumstances that aren't conducive to  a baby thriving to have an abortion than have them neglect or hurf a child

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Im trying too bednobs.

Had a friend many years ago.

His GF got pregnant.

He was over the moon, she aborted it.

It destroyed him.

 

1955...if I knew how or where, I'd have aborted a child, no question about it. 

 

 

 

Women get abortions for all types of reasons, I knew a woman who had a 2 year old, ran a business and just couldn't cope with a child.

I think it is one of those really difficult situations where circumstances and context are relevant.  Many rightly have a view but unless and until you are in that situation it is very difficult to understand. 

I do however think that women are negatively judged for terminating a pregnancy - whatever the reason.  For many it must be an absolutely terrible decision to make.  Women who have miscarried are generally treated with sympathy, whereas women who elect a termination (even for the most compelling reason) do not have the same sympathy shown to them.  

It is probably easy to judge the woman who effectively uses abortion as a form of late birth control. Less easy to judge a lady who terminates to save her own life or a 14 year old who has been raped or a woman in an abusive relationship who cannot go on, much less inflict that upon a child.

My view is that it legal and long might it remain so.  Being in favour of a woman having a choice ought to be in respect of any woman.  Without her being judged.  Only if you have been there can you really understand.

And religion has much to answer for and should not come into it.

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