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To: SarahW
You say women can't be "forced" to have an abortion, but many, many women who do abort feel they have NO CHOICE and feel that they are forced to have the abortion because there are no other options ... they have no support from the man who impregnated them (often, they say "It's your choice, but I'm not going to take care of the kid"); no support from their parents or friends; they are faced with financial responsibilities they never considered, emotional problems they've never faced, and no support structure. They are not given viable options (financial assistance, adoption referrals, etc). They ARE, in a sense, "forced" to abort because they see no other way to handle this situation on their own. Take all this with the physical hormonal changes in pregnancy, it's no wonder women go to the abortion mills in tears thinking they have no choice.

As to support from both parents, my father dumped my mother and left the country so he wouldn't have to financially support me. This was pre Roe v. Wade, but even then, in 1969, my father told my mother to get an abortion. Thank God she didn't ... and thank God she had supportive parents who let her move back home and helped her financially and emotionally for the first year of my life.

Pregnancy and childbirth have risks nowhere near the risks of abortion. The major problem is that the abortionists and their media hacks do everything in their power to minimize the risks, or outright lie, and the risks are, generally, more long-term (breast cancer, inability to conceive or carry a baby to term, and severe emotional anguish to the mother who aborted). Not to mention the women killed during an abortion, or rendered sterile.

But all this begs the point: a child is a child is a child, no matter how small. An embryo is a child ... because that is a human embryo, a human person, in her smallest state. To kill that human person is a barbaric act.

God bless.

64 posted on 03/07/2003 9:30:43 AM PST by Gophack
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To: Admin Moderator
The title of the article is Murdered Matrimony: Death Did Them Part

The title posted has nothing to do with the story nor is it the correct title.

65 posted on 03/07/2003 9:49:12 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs (Take time to smile, it will change your whole attitude)
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To: Gophack
"Pregnancy and childbirth have risks nowhere near the risks of abortion."

That is a false statement.


I agree many women, especially younger ones, feel pressure to have an induced abortion.

67 posted on 03/07/2003 10:40:20 AM PST by SarahW
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