heart feelings verses brain.

hey, i agree with you.. that's why i started that paragraph off with, "but they think.." i guess that wasn't apparent by the end of the paragraph.. sorry if i was not clear on that part.

by "they" i mean individuals who hear the cases of other women, and then decide whether or not they think the woman in the case should have the right to choose. it was from a study done to reveal abortion attitudes, and why people hold them.


i was offering a reason for why a significant amount of other people think that a woman deserves to choose, or if she should be forced to carry the pregnancy to term. i never said that a woman who is irresponsible always makes a bad parent, or that the rich are morally righteous... just that studies show other people (many of which are voters!) assume she will be a bad mother if her pregnancy was caused by irresponsibility, yet they think she should be forced to maintain the pregnancy as "punishment". flawed logic if you ask me, because it says that an "unfit mother" should be forced to maintain a pregnancy, whereas a woman who they deem a good potential mother is "awarded" an abortion. that's all i was trying to point out, i wasn't saying that they were right . the correlations and reasons that i pointed out were to show why people think that an irresponsible woman will make a worse mother than a responsible one, not to 'prove' that she will be a bad parent.

 

This is an EXCELLENT POINT, lawgirl. It makes no sense that people who automatically assume a womyn who has had (or wants) an abortion should be forced to become a mother. Womyn who have this procedure are no better or worse mother (if and when they decide to become mothers) than any other womyn.

I also find it very telling that many of those mothers who murder their own children are usually Bible Thumpin pro lifers (as are their husbands) These womyn often claim how "awful" an abortion is (at least the three that have happened in our area, and that womyn out West who drowned ALL 5 kids in the bathtub, Andrea Yates) yet kill their own children later.

 

thanks for clearing that up lawngirl!!

 

I think that one way to come to terms with it is to remember that all children are equal and there are 30,000 children dying every day in the third world from starvation thirst and dirty water.

No child born in the west is likely to die from these causes, but it could help you get over the particular sense of loss - by broadening it. Makes it less sharp.

I curse the day I learnt that statistic^.

I mean these kids do get born, and know nothing but hunger and sickness. But then, I suppose that even if you asked them they wouldn't choose never to have existed. Who would.