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What you should know about the nation’s largest provider of abortions.
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sheepishphoenix asked: Hello, I was wondering the Tumblr-verse and noticed one of your posts[link below]. I was wondering where in particular you had the conversation, because I've done that and am curious as to whether it was me or not.
Could you remind me which conversation your referring to? I’m not quite sure lol
mookydoodle-deactivated20130218 asked: Also just another thing, considering you label yourself as being pro-life, I trust that if a pregnancy were threatening a woman's life you would be fine with her having an abortion? And, if so, if a woman was so utterly traumatized by her pregnancy that she became very suicidal at the prospect (how she got pregnant is of no relevance in this example, and this has happened), would that also be ok in your view to have an abortion (as it is preserving life)
It’s often very rare that a woman needs an abortion in order to save her own life. There are, however, very unfortunate circumstances in which an unborn child may have to die in order to preserve the life of the mother.
In an ectoptic pregnancy, the fertilized egg never implants into the uterus and, instead, stays in the fallopian tubes and begins to grow there. In this case, it is necessary to remove the developing embryo because if the embryo is not removed, the mother AND the embryo will die.
If a pregnant woman has uterine cancer, it is morally correct to remove the cancer-ridden uterus, and the unborn child within it, because, if not, both the mother and child will die as well.
These are two very unfortunate circumstances and it’s sad that the child may have to die in both of these cases. However, in order to preserve the life of the mother, rather than loose the life of the mother and the child, such procedures are morally correct.
I once took a peer counseling class. Regarding trauma and suicide, they told us this: if you talk to someone who is having suicidal thoughts, you need to get them professional help. If a woman is pregnant and is having suicidal thoughts because of her pregnancy, it’s probably best that she receive counseling. If a woman is having suicidal thoughts while pregnant, chances are those thoughts aren’t going to go away because she had an abortion.
As a matter of fact, many studies show that having an abortion can cause a woman to be much more likely to be suicidal. You can read more about abortion and suicide here:
http://www.abortionfacts.com/reardon/abortion-and-suicide
I hope I’ve answered your questions! Please feel free to ask more questions if you need any further clarification from me :)
mookydoodle-deactivated20130218 asked: Regarding recent post, I'd appreciate if you'd clear up a few things: your stance on abortion if the woman was raped, and your stance on why - if the issue were as simplistic as you portray it - women willingly go through illegal abortions which can, and often do, kill them.
Rape is such a terrible a traumatic thing. When a woman is raped and becomes pregnant with the child of the rapist, she’s often left in a very fragile state and she’s in a place of great emotional pain. All she may want is a way out, a way to escape that pain, and she may think that getting an abortion is the key to escaping that pain.
Unfortunately, events cannot un-happen. I would never wish rape upon anyone, and I would never say that dealing with the emotional, mental, and physical effects of rape is easy in any way. However, abortion is also something that is very traumatic. To be put in such a fragile state due to rape and then feel that you have no other option than to kill your own child is heartbreaking. The very sad truth is that you can’t fix one traumatic experience by adding another traumatic experience.
I recently spoke to a woman who was raped while she was in college and she later found out she was pregnant, and then chose to have an abortion. She lives with the regret of killing her own child everyday. She said that in both situations (rape and abortion) she felt that she was being violated, but in the case of abortion, the emotional pain was greater, because she was the one who chose to go through the abortion, she was the one who chose to kill her child.
Everyone told her that having the abortion would help her cope with the rape, but after the abortion, she realized that wasn’t true. The rape had still happened, and she was still going to have to go through a lot of healing to deal with it. And now, so did the abortion.
Regarding your second question, it certainly is very sad that women go through legal abortions when such a procedure can be fatal to them. But the truth of the matter is that someone always dies in the case of an abortion. Last week, a 29 year old woman named Jennifer McKenna Morbelli was in her 33rd week of pregnancy and died from aborting her child, who was expected to have fetal anomolies. Two people died that day: Jennifer and her unborn daughter.
The main issue is that, many times, women feel as though abortion is the only option. You have an unexpected pregnancy? Abortion will fix that. You’ve been raped? Abortion will make it go away. Your child might have birth defects? Abortion will solve this.
We, as a society, need to remember that you cannot love women while killing their children. And you cannot save children without helping their mothers. We as a society need help them BOTH. These women need help, they need care, and they need love. What they DON’T need is abortion. Women should never have to turn to killing their children as a solution to a crisis situation.
cynicalandnaiive asked: hiya I would like to ask your opinion on an essay I wrote regarding pro-choice philosophical morality, but its far too long to put on this. I was wondering if you could put up a submission link?
Sorry, I thought I already had a submission link! It should be there now :) I look forward to reading your essay!
-noun
1. an organism that lives on or in an organism of ANOTHER SPECIES, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
Source: Dictionary.com
You can not refer to an unborn fetus as a parasite because it is of the same species as…
how so? if you don’t mind me asking :)
Besides not being a different species, a fetus behaves exactly like a parasite. It gets all its resources from its host. Pregnancy can and frequently does make one severely ill. It’s not some inconvenience or walk in the park that people who don’t want to be parents can just sit out for nine or ten months.
You bring up a very interesting point! I would never say that pregnancy is an easy thing to go through.
However, the fetus is not acting in an invasive manner. after all, where else would you expect an unborn child to be if not in the womb? the unborn child is exactly where it belongs! It is not the actions of the fetus that cause it to obtain it’s resources from the mother; the fetus is innocent and it is due to the actions of the child’s parents that it exists and is in the womb.
It is immoral to terminate the life of one because of the actions of another. It is immoral to terminate the life of an innocent child.
Yes, pregnancy is no walk in the park. But if women do not wish to be pregnant, they should not participate in the act that causes pregnancy, and if they do participate in that act, they should understand that such an act will have consequences, such as the creation of a life.
We should always take responsibility for the consequences of our actions and not avoid said consequences, especially if avoiding said consequences involves the taking of an innocent life.
Thanks so much for answering my question :)
-noun
1. an organism that lives on or in an organism of ANOTHER SPECIES, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
Source: Dictionary.com
You can not refer to an unborn fetus as a parasite because it is of the same species as…
how so? if you don’t mind me asking :)
-noun
1. an organism that lives on or in an organism of ANOTHER SPECIES, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
Source: Dictionary.com
You can not refer to an unborn fetus as a parasite because it is of the same species as it’s mother.
