Abortion......What are the repercussions?

boomerang wrote:

I got it! I got it!!!

First, abolish foster care and build "care homes".

Then, women who are convicted of abortion could be forced to work in the "care home" tending to the children who have been abused and neglected and otherwise damaged by "parents" who chose not to abort but who really didn't want to be bothered by a child!

Amusing but, your comment goes right back to carelessness.
There are more than enough options to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

In the 1980's, I volunteered at a Brooklyn maternity hospital to hold "crack babies" as they went through withdrawal. You basically just had to sit in a rocking chair and comfort them as they shook and cried. Outside, four stories down, there was always a little group of people with signs painted with various anti-abortion messages. Myself and a couple of other volunteers tried to get the protestors to come up and hold the babies. Not to make them think the babies should have been aborted, but rather to be active in doing something to help a living child. None of us were successful in recruiting any of the protestors. The most common response we got was something "I'm doing my most important work here on this corner, I'm protesting for the rights of the unborn". They obviously didn't give a crap about living babies, just embryos. These are the same people who will vote for president who vetos medical care for women and children.

jasonrest wrote:

boomerang wrote:

I got it! I got it!!!

First, abolish foster care and build "care homes".

Then, women who are convicted of abortion could be forced to work in the "care home" tending to the children who have been abused and neglected and otherwise damaged by "parents" who chose not to abort but who really didn't want to be bothered by a child!

Amusing but, your comment goes right back to carelessness.
There are more than enough options to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

You don't even get the gist of it - boomerang was being sarcastic.

It must be odd to have such a black and white view of the complicated world.

Not every child conceived survives to birth, even without "interference".

Birth control is not fool-proof. Accidents happen.

My gut tells me you have not spent a lot of time with any young, pregnant women or with young mothers. They all THINK they can do it alone - and sadly, alone is how most of them are. Very few of them can actually do it alone.

When the baby is sick and they don't have insurance so they don't have a doctor and they don't have child care and their boss fires them because they miss work because they have absolutely nowhere to turn and some zealot wags their finger and tells them to be responsible.....

....sigh....

Then I say Man Up.

Man up to make sure there is a safety net for these women and their kids and you will make huge strides in eliminating abortion.

Better yet, be the safety net yourself.

Typical.


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Unless searching is too much work for ya

Life begins when a baby is born.

jasonrest wrote:

CalamityJane wrote:

Oh yes, I do think they are that dense, especially when their God plays
into this.

I did not offer any repercussions, as abortion is not illegal and I am
pro choice. There was a time in history, however, where abortions were
illegal and the repercussions for women who terminated their pregnancy
was more often than not that they bled to death or were otherwise
mutilated and scared for life by a quack who called himself MD.

and what would be the difference between that woman dying and that child dying?

One is a living being, the other is not capable of living on its own.

I don't know. It depends. Could it survive on it's own outside the womb? Could it survive birth?

Some babies don't survive birth. My good friend's baby died two weeks before she delivered it (note: I did not say two weeks before it was born). Is she a murderer?

so should you.