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raising a child is no small matter. mothers should be given at least six months following birth to make this weighty decision. Comment by sarah

I think that we should be able to perform an “abortion” on you, you SICK MOTHER F*&KER.

Needless to say, as a mother of three, I am comlpetely offended by your statement.

Do the world a favor, don’t reproduce!

If I follow what you are saying correctly, you are talking about murdering an infant. Once it leaves the womb and is alive, you can not say it is not a life.

Thouching story. Seriously.

But did little Tina wait until she was 30 weeks pregnant? If she did not come talk to you about it well before 20 weeks( much less 30), then you have other issues to deal with as well.

and I didnt do such a good job at talking to Tina about sex

This is very key statement. You were negligent in your duties as a parent.

Here are things I see in what you wrote.

“I didn’t have time to teach her properly about sex.”

But you had time to discuss abortion?

“I don’t have time to raise another child”

But what if you were to come up pregnant? Would you have time then?

Again, I have never said to make abortion illegal. I voiced a PERSONAL opinion about late term/partial birth abortion.

what an amazing story. it’s stories like these that show us why abortion is so needed. can you imagine how terrible it would be if the extremists had their way and forced us to live in a world where we had to deal with mistakes like these?

partial birth abortion is an unfortunate compromise for ending pregnancy late in gestation. the best medical procedure, with the least risk of morbidity or mortality, would be to perform the “abortion” post-partum. there is absolutely no health risk to the mother, and the neonate could be given anesthetic (followed of course by KCl) to calm down the moralistic bible-thumpers.

raising a child is no small matter. mothers should be given at least six months following birth to make this weighty decision.

Comment by hacker bob

Umm?

Little Tina decided to play with the boys one summer and well, Herb and I didnt do such a good job at talking to Tina about sex and well, one thing led to another, it was a birds and bees summer for her for sure and now with school going to be starting next month my little girl admitted she slept with Thad her boyfriend and everything is fine on the homefront now.

Except the little problem of the baby.

My daughter is a child herself who screwed up by sleeping around unprotected and slightly underage. But hey, hormones make even male deer do crazy things like jump through patio windows.

My daughter has decided as have I, that neither her or I have no time in our lives for a mistake that was made over the summer.

This mistake would effect my daughter for the rest of her life and quite possibly in a negative way.

We are glad as a parent and daughter that we have alternatives besides coming to full term and adopting the baby out.

We are busy people and the last thing Herb and I ever wanted was our 15 year old daughter to be having daughters and then I and Herb get stuck raising TWO generations instead of just one.

That is supposed to be my daughters job when she is ready.
And she will decide when that time will be.

Not you.

Thanks, that is a good one!

Now if I could only find my ex-girlfriend’s phone number…

Comment by eyelid

Sorry, Is there something I said that you didn’t understand? Other than something being medically necessary, it is an elective procedure.

If it is mot medically necessary, what would be a valid reason?

Have you ever actually spoken with women who have had second-trimester abortions? Have you heard their reasons? Or are you just making assumptions, aka talking out of your ass?

My guess is that you know absolutely nothing about women who have had second trimester abortions. Or the reasons why they did it.

Comment by Evil Spaniard

Evil Spaniard,

Out of one of our ribs no less. The part with not alot of meat value anyway. Shows how much God values women, they are to be there to multiply mankind in Gods Divine Eyes and otherwise and generally keep quiet on all things in life.

Maybe there is something to Islam.

Peace and quiet and most inportantly submision, from an uppity woman.

God did create man as his image and ressemblance. Then God saw the man’s magnificency and decided that, in order to not have an equal competitor, a drawback to the man was needed. The did create the woman.

/Sarcasm off

P.S.: Please, please, women of TP, don’t hit me too hard :P

Thanks. I think I ended up gibbering something like that back then. But that’s not the witty, clever retort I was looking for. It wouldn’t leave anyone in the dust.

My quest continues….

According to statistics, only about 25% of the women who opt for a late-term abortion do it because they took time to make a decision. The rest delay having the procedure done for a host of reasons, two of which are 1) a misjudged gestation -which points to a lack of access to proper medical care which in turns points to, yes, poverty, and 2) a difficulty in making the necessary arrangements -which points to a lack of access to clinics, which in turn points to, yes, poverty. Read the numbers for yourself

See, the problem is that man can walk away from a pregnancy. Our fellow men do it all the time; ever heard of the dead-beat dads? Women do not have that option. They are stuck with the pregnancy. Insisting that women be responsible and not get pregnant ignores that it takes two to tango.

I’ve skipped over a lot of posts, but you make excellent points. Forced gestation could run afoul of the XIII Amendment. The woman is coerced to provide care and nurishment to another human being 24/7 against her will.

And thus far, no right to life person has ever answered my questions regarding miscarriages. If a fertilized egg is given full personhood, then miscarriages could be treated as negligent homicides. The woman who miscarries and her ob-gyn could share criminal liability.

Here’s the scenarios: a pregnant drug-addict miscarries; an alcoholic miscarries; a smoker miscarries; medical malpractice by an ob-gyn causes a miscarriage.

Then there’s third-party liability: X causes an accident, which causes Y (who was impregnated the previous evening) to miscarry. X is charged with manslaughter.

These will be the kinds of cases that will come to trial, once a fertilized egg is given personhood.

On the plus side: pregnant women will be able to use the carpool lane!

That was a blast. :)