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This is the part that so many Christians fall down on. This is the part where I can get into trouble with my extremely-pro-life friends - the ones who see the life of the innocent child as being MORE important than that of its mother. I don't see it that way, and I never have. They are both human beings, deserving and needing love and help. Sometimes the needs of the mother will result in a necessary evil. Sometimes they shouldn't. I'm not going to be the one to decide which is which, but I will do everything in my power to help those that cross my path - mother and child.
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This is the part that so many Christians fall down on. This is the part where I can get into trouble with my extremely-pro-life friends - the ones who see the life of the innocent child as being MORE important than that of its mother. I don't see it that way, and I never have. They are both human beings, deserving and needing love and help. Sometimes the needs of the mother will result in a necessary evil. Sometimes they shouldn't. I'm not going to be the one to decide which is which, but I will do everything in my power to help those that cross my path - mother and child.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ginmar/552224.html
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Date: 2005-11-02 01:54 am (UTC)And so much on the mark on why I feel so uncomfortable around the extremely-pro-life crowd.
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Date: 2005-11-02 02:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-02 02:39 pm (UTC)My older sister was going to Planned Parenthood because she needed to be on the Pill for health reasons- and had no insurance. She always hated to see the anti-abortion protestors out there (firstly because they always assumed that women going there were only going for abortions) and always wanted to ask them what they would do to help her if she opted not to have an abortion.
Would they provide a loving, stable home for the child? More than merely adequate food and clothing, a computer when they got older, a car when they could drive? Could they give her child all that, since she couldn't? If not, then get out of the way.
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Date: 2005-11-02 04:03 pm (UTC)One of the reasons abortion has always been upsetting to me was that I watched for years as my aunt tried to adopt. She was too old, she didn't have enough money, etc, etc. She would have been an excellent mother, but she never got the chance because the babies that might have been available for adoption were being aborted instead, or kept by teens who couldn't care for them adequately.
As far as I am concerned, pro-life and pro-adoption need to go hand in hand. If you're an advocate for one, you'd better be an advocate and facilitator of the other, as well. Otherwise you're a self-righteous hypocrite.
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Date: 2005-11-02 04:41 pm (UTC)I do support adoption for the very people who are like your aunt. People who would make wonderful parents, but for whatever reason have no biological children of their own. Sometimes it's a very twisted world we live in.
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Date: 2005-11-02 04:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-03 12:54 pm (UTC)i can't declare that i will do everything in my power to help - sometimes, i just lack the determination. that's no excuse, i know, but i'm sure that at least, i wouldn't try to impose my opinion simply because i haven't been in their shoes.
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Date: 2005-11-03 12:58 pm (UTC)