[labman]

While I feel abortion should be legal, I see little difference in killing innocent people before or after they are born.

[Fr_Chuck]

While I feel abortion should be legal, I see little difference in killing innocent people before or after they are born.

Knowing your work with dogs, lets play with that opinion, then you have no issue with just merely the killing of unwanted puppies, if you have an unwanted dog, just killing it is a valid OK thing to do?

[N0help4u]

I think what he meant about seeing little difference to mean that he thinks it is just as bad to have an abortion as it would be killing a baby after it is born.

[spitvenom]

I would never ask a girl to get an abortion. But at the same time I would never stop someone from getting an abortion either. So yeah I am Pro Choice.

[inthebox]

A life is ended. Against.

[veritas]

Scott Klusendorf has a great website on defending the pro-life message:
Home Page

Here's a great way to remember the only differences between a human embryos and me and you:


Size: True, embryos are smaller than newborns and adults, but why is that relevant? Do we really want to say that large people are more human than small ones? Men are generally larger than women, but that doesn’t mean that they deserve more rights. Size doesn’t equal value.

Level of development: True, embryos and fetuses are less developed than you and I. But again, why is this relevant? Four year-old girls are less developed than 14 year-old ones. Should older children have more rights than their younger siblings? Some people say that self-awareness makes one human. But if that is true, newborns do not qualify as valuable human beings. Six-week old infants lack the immediate capacity for performing human mental functions, as do the reversibly comatose, the sleeping, and those with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Environment: Where you are has no bearing on who you are. Does your value change when you cross the street or roll over in bed? If not, how can a journey of eight inches down the birth-canal suddenly change the essential nature of the unborn from non-human to human? If the unborn are not already human, merely changing their location can’t make them valuable.

Degree of Dependency: If viability makes us human, then all those who depend on insulin or kidney medication are not valuable and we may kill them. Conjoined twins who share blood type and bodily systems also have no right to life.

If you hear someone say that, "the choice to have an abortion is personal," you will soon realize how incoherent our culture has become. Because what this means is that they have rendered the question of whether to have their own child murdered to a "personal" matter. Who, on this earth, has a "personal right" to murder an obviously innocent human being?

Remember, the only legitimate questions to consider are: What is an abortion? What is murder? And What is a human being? All other questions or considerations are just rationalizations for murdering a human being for "its own good."

[babydust]

I just read your question and I think it's a totally OK question to ask. I myself have just found out I'm pregnant. Literally 4 weeks gone.my fiancé and I have both chosen it is the correct choice to have a termination. If our current situation was different then we would by all means keep this child. But its about making a mature decision which ever way you feel it takes a strong person to keep a baby. But in my opinion a stronger person to terminate one. Its not a cowards route out like I no some people feel like I said before it takes a mature person to make the appropriate choicex

[shannon08]

Wait you got an abortion? Meaning terminating the pregnancy?

[DominusVobiscum]

I am pro life... medical reasons is the only way I believe abortion should be considered. From what I have heard abortion for medical reasons is rather rare.

How dare you call yourself pro-life while advocating the MURDER of INNOCENT HUMAN BEINGS for any reason! You are a disgrace to the title that you claim to posses.

Complications

You can have

With your abortion.

Bladder Injury

If your uterus is perforated, your urinary bladder can be perforated, too. This can also cause peritonitis (an inflamed, infected lining of the abdomen) with all of its pain, dangers and necessary reparative surgery.

Bowel Injury

If your uterus is perforated, your intestines can be perforated, too. This will cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fever, blood in stool, peritonitis (an inflamed, infected lining of the abdomen) and death if not treated quickly enough. A portion of the intestine may have to be taken out, and a temporary or permanent colostomy may be put in your abdomen.

Breast Cancer

Women who have aborted have significantly higher rates of breast cancer later in life. Breast cancer has risen by 50% in America since abortion became legal in 1973.

Ectopic (Tubal) Pregnancy

An ectopic pregnancy is any pregnancy that occurs outside the uterus. After an abortion, you are 8 to 20 times more likely to have an ectopic pregnancy. If not discovered soon enough, an ectopic pregnancy ruptures, and you can bleed to death if you do not have emergency surgery. Statistics show a 30% increased risk of ectopic pregnancy after one abortion and a 160% increased risk of ectopic pregnancy after two or more abortions. There has been a threefold increase in ectopic pregnancies in the U.S. since abortion was legalized. In 1970, the incidence was 4.8 per 1,000 live births. By 1980 it was 14.5 per 1,000 births.

Effects on Future Pregnancies

If you have an abortion:

(1) You will be more likely to bleed in the first three months of future pregnancies.

(2) You will be less likely to have a normal delivery in future pregnancies.

(3) You will need more manual removal of placenta more often and there will be more complications with expelling the baby and its placenta.

(4) Your next baby will be twice as likely to die in the first few months of life.

(5) Your next baby will be three to four times as likely to die in the last months of his first year of life.

(6) Your next baby may have a low birth weight.

(7) Your next baby is more likely to be born prematurely with all the dangerous and costly problems that entails.



Failed Abortion

Failure to successfully abort the unborn younger than 6 weeks is relatively common. Sometimes, an abortionist fails to evacuate the placenta from the uterus. This means the pregnancy continues even though mother has endured the dangers and cost of an abortion.

Hemorrhage

One to fourteen percent of women require a blood transfusion due to bleeding from an abortion.

Hepatitis

This can occur if you have to have a blood transfusion after an abortion.

Infection

Mild fever and sometimes death occurs when there is an infection from an abortion. This happens in anywhere from 1 in 4 women to 1 in 50 women.

Laceration of the Cervix

About 1 out of 20 women suffer this during an abortion. This causes you to have nearly a 50/50 chance of miscarrying in your next pregnancy if it is not treated properly during that pregnancy. A high incidence of cervical damage from the abortion procedure has raised the incidence of miscarriage 30-40% in women who have had abortions.

More Miscarriages Later

Women who have had two or more abortions have twice as many first trimester miscarriages in later pregnancies. There is a ten-fold increase in the number of second trimester miscarriages in pregnancies that follow a vaginal abortion.

Perforation of the Uterus

Women suffer a perforated uterus in between 1 out of 40 and 1 out of 400 abortions. This almost always causes peritonitis (an inflamed, infected lining of the abdomen), similar to having a ruptured appendix.

Placenta Previa

Placenta previa occurs 6 to 15 times more often after a woman has had an abortion. In this condition your baby’s placenta lies over the exit from the uterus so that the placenta has to be delivered before the baby can get out. This causes the mother to bleed severely while the baby almost always dies, unless your obstetrician recognizes this condition and removes the baby by Caesarean section at just the right time in the pregnancy.

Post-Abortion Syndrome

Frequently after an abortion, women suffer a range of mental and psychological problems. These may include recurrent dreams of the abortion experience, avoidance of emotional attachment, relationship problems, sleep disturbances, guilt about surviving, memory impairment, hostile outbursts, suicidal thoughts or actions, depression, and substance abuse. These problems may occur days to years later.

Retained Products of Conception

If your doctor leaves pieces of the baby, placenta, umbilical cord, or amniotic sac in your body, you may develop pain, bleeding, or a low grade fever. Besides antibiotics and possible hospitalization, you may require additional surgery to remove these remaining pieces.

RH Incompatibility

Your doctor should be sure of your baby’s Rh blood type if you are Rh-negative, so that he can protect you and your next baby against future Rh incompatibilities. These Rh incompatibilities can:

. Require that future babies will need transfusions soon after birth,

. Cause future babies to be born dead because of the incompatibilities,

. Cause future babies to die soon after birth because of the Rh incompatibility.

If your doctor doesn’t check the blood type of the baby you are going to abort, even in very early suction abortions done before eight weeks, fetal-maternal hemorrhage can occur, thereby sensitizing you if you are Rh-negative.

Severe, Rapid Bleeding

You may develop DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulopathy) from your abortion. This means your blood does not clot and you will bleed uncontrollably. DIC is extremely life threatening and difficult to treat. It occurs in 2 out of 1,000 second trimester abortions.

Sterility

After an abortion you may become sterile. This happens in 1 out of 20 to 1 out of 50 women. The risk of secondary infertility among women with at least one abortion is 3 to 4 times greater than that among women who have not aborted.

Unrecognized Ectopic Pregnancy

Your doctor may try to abort the baby but be unsuccessful because it is developing in your fallopian tube. Unfortunately this tubal pregnancy ruptures later and emergency surgery must be done to save your life. All women in their first trimester should have an ultrasound to make sure they do not have an ectopic pregnancy.

Young Women

Complication rates of abortion increase with younger, teen-age women. However, younger women who carry their babies to term have better births than older women if they get proper care. There is evidence that in 15 to 17 year old women, pregnancy may even be physically healthier than in women of older ages.




"In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazards as abortion. It is a commonly held view that complications are inevitable."

- Dr. Warren Hern, world renowned abortionist


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Barrett et al. "Induced Abortion, A Risk Factor for Placenta Previa," Amer. Jour. OB/GYN, Dec. 1981, pp. 769-772

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Clow & Crompton, "The Wounded Uterus: Pregnancy after Hysterectomy," British Med. Jour. Feb. 10, 1973, p.321

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Herlap, New England Jour. Of Med. no. 301, 1979, pp. 667-681 G

Hilgers et al. "Fertility Problems Following an Aborted First Pregnancy." In New Perspectives on Human Abortion, edited by S. Lembrych. University Publications of America, 1981, pp. 128-134

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Information prepared by: Laurence J. Burns, D.O. Board Certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology, I. Dale Carroll, M.D. Board Certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Ronald E. Graeser, D.O. Board Certified in Family Practice.

OH YA YOU GUYS REALLY CARE ABOUT THE HEALTH OF THE MOTHER. SURE YOU DO. (sarcasm intended)

From abortion no.org

[earl237]

I personally don't approve of abortion but I think it should be legal with parental notification for under 18s and no taxpayer funding.

[DoulaLC]

I learned a long time ago that until I am in a position to have to make such a difficult decision, I will not really know what I might or might not do. I know what I believe I would do. I know what I would like others to do, but that is not my choice... anymore than I would want someone else making choices for me who are not living my life.

[ChihuahuaMomma]

Pro-Choice.

[DominusVobiscum]

Pro-Choice.

"Pro-Choice"? What about the baby's choice? What about the American taxpayers' to fund abortion instead of being FORCED to pay by our nation's leaders? If you or any other supposedly "Pro-Choice" people were actually PRO-choice than you would advocate for the mandatory use of the many methods that we have available to us today so that the mother can actually SEE and KNOW what an abortion actually is and what their baby looks like. Informed Consent is PRO Choice. PRO-ABORTION organizations like Planned Barrenhood I mean Planned Parenthood have actually said that the majority of women, if shown the reality of what they are about to do and shown their developing child in the womb, would not have an abortion. We can't have that, now can we? If we let women see the truth than they will not have an abortion and Planned Parenthood will loose money. No Don't let the people be enlightened. Let them stay blind to the truth of abortion. We need them to line our pockets out of their own ignorance.

SHOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHAT ABORTION IS. STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF 4,000 INNOCENT BABIES A DAY IN THE NAME OF "CHOICE"

CHERISH LIFE

[JudyKayTee]

"Pro-Choice"? What about the baby's choice? What about the American taxpayers' to fund abortion instead of being FORCED to pay by our nation's leaders? If you or any other supposedly "Pro-Choice" people were actually PRO-choice than you would advocate for the mandatory use of the many methods that we have available to us today so that the mother can actually SEE and KNOW what an abortion actually is and what their baby looks like. Informed Consent is PRO Choice. PRO-ABORTION organizations like Planned Barrenhood I mean Planned Parenthood have actually said that the majority of women, if shown the reality of what they are about to do and shown their developing child in the womb, would not have an abortion. We can't have that, now can we? If we let women see the truth than they will not have an abortion and Planned Parenthood will loose money. No Don't let the people be enlightened. Let them stay blind to the truth of abortion. We need them to line our pockets out of their own ignorance.

SHOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHAT ABORTION IS. STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF 4,000 INNOCENT BABIES A DAY IN THE NAME OF "CHOICE"

CHERISH LIFE

I leave it up to God to decide who is a sinner, who is not, who is worthy of redemption, who is not, who will find salvation and who will not.

I don't throw the first stone nor do I judge other people. I also don't take advice from people who cut and paste what others have written and don't give their source.

(Mandatory birth control? Who is going to be in charge of going bedroom to bedroom, condoms in hand, enforcing THAT law - ?)

[DominusVobiscum]

I leave it up to God to decide who is a sinner, who is not, who is worthy of redemption, who is not, who will find salvation and who will not.

I don't throw the first stone nor do I judge other people. I also don't take advice from people who cut and paste what others have written and don't give their source.

(Mandatory birth control? Who is going to be in charge of going bedroom to bedroom, condoms in hand, enforcing THAT law - ?)

First, Sin is Sin and it is our job (authentic Christians) to exploit it. I never said that women who have abortions are not worthy of redemption or salvation or anything else that you think I was saying. Second, I never said "Mandatory" Birth Control; I said Mandatory Informed Consent for women going to abortion mills. Meaning I believe that women should be informed before and while they go to the murder mills because spokespeople for Planned Parenthood know and have said that if women know what their baby looks like, if they know what an abortion looks like, and if they know the facts. Than THEY PROBABLY WONT HAVE AN ABORTION.
Next time don't try to read into someone's post what IS NOT THERE.

[DominusVobiscum]

I
I also don't take advice from people who cut and paste what others have written and don't give their source.
)

If you are referring to my quote on page 3 LOOK AT THE END OF THE QUOTE. I VERY CLEARLY WROTE "FROM ABORTION NO.ORG". HAPPY?

Everything else is entirly mine and common knowledge

[JudyKayTee]

If you are referring to my quote on page 3 LOOK AT THE END OF THE QUOTE. I VERY CLEARLY WROTE "FROM ABORTION NO.ORG". HAPPY?

Everything else is entirly mine and common knowledge

I don't think it's "entirly" yours and/or common knowledge. You said: "If you or any other supposedly "Pro-Choice" people were actually PRO-choice than you would advocate for the mandatory use of the many methods that we have available to us today -."

I read that to refer to the mandatory use of the many methods of BIRTH CONTROL that we have available to us today.

What are you referencing - ?

It is "our job as Christians" - ? You think everyone who posts here is Christian?

[DominusVobiscum]

I don't think it's "entirly" yours and/or common knowledge. You said: "If you or any other supposedly "Pro-Choice" people were actually PRO-choice than you would advocate for the mandatory use of the many methods that we have available to us today -."

I read that to refer to the mandatory use of the many methods of BIRTH CONTROL that we have available to us today.

What are you referencing - ?

It is "our job as Christians" - ? You think everyone who posts here is Christian?

First, Ya I know you read it to mean " the mandatory use of the many methods of BIRTH CONTROL that we have available to us today." But that is not what I said and I am unable at this point to see where you read anything about "BIRTH CONTROL" (implied or otherwise) in my post. It is just not there. I will now repost that particular sentence where I said "mandatory" and were you went wrong in interpreting my post to mean that I advocate "mandatory birth control".

"If you or any other supposedly "Pro-Choice" people were actually PRO-choice than you would advocate for the mandatory use of the many methods that we have available to us today.--- You were all right up to this point , but here is were you went wrong. You took out the whole end of the quote and substituted it w/ "BIRTH CONTROL" Here is the REAL ending of my post: "so that the mother can actually SEE and KNOW what an abortion actually is and what their baby looks like. Informed Consent is PRO Choice."
There. That shows that I was talking about INFORMED CONSENT NOT "BIRTH CONTROL.

In regard to your 2nd question, What are you referring to when you say What are you referencing - ?"

Lastly, No I don't think that everyone who comes on here is Christian; I just said "Christian" because I am Christian (Catholic) and that particular part of the post was meant for any and all Christians who might just happen to find themselves on this particular topic and see that particular post.

Also, I said "entirely" with the meaning of what I meant it with. I meant that it is a product of my years of research and my own personal statements. LET US NOT DWELL ON SEMANTICS HERE. READ IN CONTEXT.

[JudyKayTee]

First, Ya I know you read it to mean " the mandatory use of the many methods of BIRTH CONTROL that we have available to us today." But that is not what I said and I am unable at this point to see where you read anything about "BIRTH CONTROL" (implied or otherwise) in my post. It is just not there. I will now repost that particular sentence where I said "mandatory" and were you went wrong in interpreting my post to mean that I advocate "mandatory birth control".

"If you or any other supposedly "Pro-Choice" people were actually PRO-choice than you would advocate for the mandatory use of the many methods that we have available to us today.--- You were alright up to this point , but here is were you went wrong. You took out the whole end of the quote and substituted it w/ "BIRTH CONTROL" Here is the REAL ending of my post: "so that the mother can actually SEE and KNOW what an abortion actually is and what their baby looks like. Informed Consent is PRO Choice."
There. That shows that I was talking about INFORMED CONSENT NOT "BIRTH CONTROL.

So the full sentence would have read "If you... were actually PRO-choice than [sic.] you would advocate for the mandatory use of the many methods that we have available to us today so that the mother can actually see... blah, blah, blah."

What methods are you talking about? I still don't think this sentence makes any sense.

Wonder how many Christians you drive away from the Catholic Church with these opinions and how many you bring into the fold?

[DominusVobiscum]

So the full sentence would have read "If you ... were actually PRO-choice than [sic.] you would advocate for the mandatory use of the many methods that we have available to us today so that the mother can actually see ... blah, blah, blah."

What methods are you talking about? I still don't think this sentence makes any sense.

Wonder how many Christians you drive away from the Catholic Church with these opinions and how many you bring into the fold?

The sentence makes absolute perfect sense. It is YOU who refuses to see the sense in it because it does not say what you want it to say. Just accept it for what it is and STOP dwelling on this particular part! It seems to me that you are writing so much on this particular piece of my original post because you are afraid to answer the rest! So please do yourself a favor and stop obsessing over this part and answer the rest if you are intellectually able.
Now I will answer the question "what methods?" the methods are embryology, ultrasound, and other means of seeing the baby and seeing what an abortion is & does.

"Wonder how many Christians you drive away from the Catholic Church with these opinions and how many you bring into the fold?"
What opinions are you talking about here? The opinions that abortion is wrong because it is murder and the American people should actually see what abortion is? Also, the Most Holy, Christ Founded, Catholic Church does not want members who do not follow exactly what it teaches. People who do not believe what the Church teaches have no business in the Catholic Church.