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Originally Posted by GolfSavage
I know of cases where young girls who are confused and frightened and go into Planned Parenthood clinic where the truth about abortion is glossed over, and she is led to believe abortion is her only answer. Then they have suffered traumas and injury due to complications the clinic knew were possible, but failed to mention. That's not really "choice".
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GS, I don't doubt that some girls who opt for abortion suffer trauma and injury. It is also without doubt that some girls who carry a child to term suffer trauma and injury and that the adoption choice is also a traumatic experience for many.
It is undeniable that many of the same people whose moral beliefs would take the choice out of the hands of the pregnant girl and put it in the hands of government are the same ones who don't support medical and health insurance for lower income people, rail against "entitlement" programs, and oppose almost every kind of taxpayer assistance for those same people. That's why I say it is pro-birth rather than pro-life.
It is also a fact that the decision makers in this matter are overwhelmingly men (in Congress, the Supreme Court, State Legislatures, even the opinion leaders in the pulpit), while the person carrying and either raising or giving up the unwanted child is invariably female. There is just something inherently wrong with those facts, in my humble opinion.
I respect your religious beliefs and, as a Catholic, understand your rational. However, in this, as in other matters, I disagree with the stance my Church has taken and reserve the right to follow my own God-given conscience. My dear, departed Mother, who was a Christian in word and action, used to quip that "If men had babies, abortion would be a sacrament." Overstated, of course.....but I hope you get the point.