Posted on 08/11/2006 11:31:16 AM PDT by madprof98
Not long ago, in an act of near-adolescent abandon, my wife and I had unprotected sex. We were not trying to have a baby; rather, in the heat of the moment, we never quite got around to using birth control. When we realized what had happened, . . . my wife called her doctor and asked for a prescription for Plan B, the "morning after" birth-control pill.
Of course, I'm not immune to emotion either, especially For my wife and me, the decision to use Plan B was hardly casual. Although we both support abortion rights and favor the widest possible access to Plan B, we have serious qualms about the ethics of abortion and conception, questions about when, exactly, life begins.
We've been lucky: We are in our mid-40s, the parents of two children, 11 and 7, and in 25 years together (we started dating as college freshmen) we've never had an unwanted pregnancy scare.
After all, why did we use Plan B? We did it for our family. We weren't trying to avoid responsibility, but rather to embrace it.
To be sure, there's a pragmatic element at work here: My wife and I are stretched thin with two kids and two jobs, with school, rent, clothing, health insurance, time. Yet more to the point, we love our family as it is, love the balance among the four of us, the dynamic, the emotional interplay.
This is our decision, our sense of what is right, our individual accountability. It's what I think of when I hear that amorphous term "pro-choice," the choice to live as I see fit, to make decisions and deal with the consequences.
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
When they aren't campaigning for terrorists, the Left these days seems to be on an "I loved my abortion" kick. This piece is a variant on that theme.
Interestingly, even Naomi Wolf (Al Gore's favorite feminist) admitted a while back that she felt guilty over taking the Morning After pill when she was a college student. Today, that sentiment would get her expelled from the Lunatic Left.
But I thought the morning-after pill was only going to be used by underage victims of incestuous rape ...
Did I miss the new memo saying it was to be standard birth control for frisky yuppies?
I'm sure he sincerely believes what he has written. How sad.
This is our decision, our sense of what is right, our individual accountability.
One day you'll be accountable to the Lord's version of what is right.
G-d help you when you'll murder your own child.
And he might have had to move out to Staten Island and start buying those giant jars of mayonaise from Costco.
This article reminds me of why I have such disdain for Liberals.
Wouldn't it be nice if the unwanted aborted children would be the ones who judge the parents who in the heat of the moment chose themselves over the life they had just created?
Planned Parenthood's latest PR blitz, is all.
We love our children - the ones we chose, anyway
If he believed his story he wouldn't be trying so hard to justify his decision to use the morning after pill.
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I hope you're right.
What a self centered weasle.
Come again, I don't quite get that.
War is wrong, because killing evil men who would murder you in your sleep and enslave your family is wrong. The death penelty is wrong, because killing a repeat serial-killer pedophile is wrong. But killing an unborn child in the womb because you are too stupid, too drunk, or too selfish to behave responsibly...hey, that's just fine for a Liberal. As long as you can rationalize it, that is.
In school, we used to do the "you are stranded on a desert island with supplies for five and six people, who lives and who dies" excercise. I knew people who would moan, complain, hand-wring and panic over the injustice of the excercise...how can you choose young over old, rich over poor, healthy over ill? And those very same people would have no problem having an abortion.
My wife and I have a unique perspective on this, because living through six miscairrages on the way to having our two much loved and much desired daughters meant we never had to worry about birth control...we were trying all the time, and anguished when it failed, over and over. Even today, there is the remote chance we might have another, even though we feel strapped to pay for two. It's not likely. But if it happened, we would raise that third child in our loving arms, and praise God for the blessing. Some people may be able to go to their graves knowing that their selfishness prevented another living being from walking the earth, breathing the air, and becoming a thinking, loving miracle of God's love for us...but it won't be me, and I don't know how Libs who are soooooooooooooooooooo proud of how loving, giving, and touchy-feely they are manage to do so.
If a child must die so that you can live better, you are is living in poverty.
Why is it that the people who claim to want the government out of the bedroom insist on making us know what goes on in theirs'?!
Great unspoken message: "We killed your brother, and if you step out of line, we could do it to you." Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Congrats on the abortion!!! Yikes, it's like he's proud. Abortion is the liberals religion.
Molech (a.k.a Chemosh) was the ancient god of prosperity.
He was worshipped by many of the Cannanite tribes. All he
required was that you sacrifice one or more of your
children to him and he would give you prosperity.
This god today is being worshipped at abortion clinics (and
in the privacy of home) by millions. "We can afford another
one", "What about my college?".
Why not put this precious child up for adoption?! Think
of how many couples have to go overseas for children...
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