I will support an abortion if the resulting carriage will be dangerous to the mother; unless the mother says otherwise.

I will not support an abortion if the pregnancy is the result of “hormonal unleash” of 2 young, irresponsible youths. If you can’t stand up the unleashed heat, don’t start the fire.

I am a pro-life, but I prefer to be called “Pro-Chance”

It is quite sickening to see that generations in america have done free-sex quite everywhere, but when a young girl, still in school, is pregnant due to that same free-sex, she will be labelled sinner and irresponsible.

Responsibility is way beyond that latex wrapped around your penis.

Insert “molested a child” into your piece and see how beautiful it is. No? Of course not. All the prose, and the introspection, and the reflection, I see it as all a smokescreen for a terrible, terrible thing.

I know it’s not my pulpit! That is a condescending statement. Your blog like mine is open for comments. I commented, that’s all. I’m sure you expected some negative comments? We aren’t all carried away by poetic descriptions of terrible acts. . .

Windspike- I’ll take the comments at either site, and reply as appropriate. Thanks for your continued readership and support. As for posting this, we need to hear the stories to combat the current assault against women in this country. Thanks, as always, for dropping by.

Dawn- Thanks for your two cents. Current law allows first trimester (up to 12 weeks) abortions with few restrictions. Apparently, the legal/medical/scientific community has determined that 2 months gestation does not a human make. Already forming is not quite the same as completely formed.

Aurelius-I am glad to have offered this for you to read. Thanks for dropping by.

KellyE-Thanks for understanding the gist of this post. Just because we support choice does not negate the weight that choice brings.

Eko- Although we have had some fine discourse in the past, this comment of yours does not rise to previous standards.
First- You have adults living off their parents AND supporting families. Should they not be doing so? Sex, and hormonal changes in teenagers does not necessarily have anything to do with parental financial support.
Second- The argument of when life begins will continue indefinitely. The argument of letting women decide what happens to their bodies was decided too, but that issue keeps being attacked.
Third- Sexual desires are not exclusive to men (or boys.) Women (and girls) have them too, and in most cases, the sexual relationships of young people are consensual. They fulfill each others needs.

Kush- While I would defer to regional sovereignty in many cases, the ability of women to be free to make their own decisions is a constitutional issue, not one of state’s rights. If fundamentalists outnumber by just a slight margin, why should their views become law over those who don’t follow their dogma? Instead, they can choose not to abort without abridging the rights of those who choose to do so.
Thanks for leaving your thoughts.

KellyE- Thanks for helping with the clarification.

Monika- Sorry Monika- this is not your pulpit. I killed no one, I supported a decision by the one person who was most affected.
Your views are your own, and I support your right to them. But your vitriolic attempts to disdain me are futile and quite frankly, display your own adherence to “black and white” reality which I highly doubt even you follow in your own life.

KWW- Thanks, and great to hear from you again. I do recommend checking out the other stories, but you’ll probably have to check the archive at BIO.
My main point to this post was to show men where our proper position is in this debate. I could think of no better way than to share my own experience.
So many on the “pro-life” bandwagon care nothing about the future of a child, only that it is born at all costs. If there is a myopic viewpoint in this matter, it is theirs.

I have not yet read the other stories that you mentioned but plan to do so. I have often thought about writing about my own abortion and will probably do so sometime in the future. I was impressed that you were there for your girlfriend and were concerned that she not be alone during the procedure. I was alone.

I completely support the decisions that you and she made together and the process you went through to arrive at your decision. You were kids who dealt responsibly with a very difficult situation. It was important that you took into consideration both the immediate and long-term difficulties that having a child would have presented. There are many destructive marriages and abused children because pregnacy forced the continuation of an adolescent relationship.

One last thing…My husband of 26 years, like you, has never had the need or desire to dominate or control. We have an adult relationship based on mutual respect and equality as indviduals. I think of men who are domineering and controlling as underdeveloped. The remain childish, emotionally insecure little boys because they have’nt grown enough to achieve the self-actualization required of adults. I appreciate my husband as much as your wife must appreciate you. `

You killed your kid.

There are countless stories where abortion saved, simultaneously, the parents and the child, insofar as, at your early age, neither of you could have cared for the child as you would ultimately have hoped. Similarly, if fundamentalists want abortion outlawed in their state, and can pass the vote, then that should fly as well. However, the problem, of course, is that both sides seek to impose their will on everyone – Madison’s mischeif of faction. Some day, I hope we return to the regional sovereignty that has originally made this country great.

Oh, I forget. Women are supposed to be male-dependant, despite all talks about emancipation and such, so she must oblige to men’s desires.