Since I had an abortion, I should be ‘fixed’. Such love and compassion! Pro life is pro love! My ass.
Rick Perry wears the same jacket as in brokeback mountain in his anti gay political ad. Irony? Hilarious? Are you trying to tell us something Rick? I
I don’t regret my abortion. I have not become depressed or suicidal and it has been nearly 9yrs since my abortion.
I admit I had rough patches, but not because of the abortion. Rough patches happen in life. If I regret anything it was being in a situation where I felt like I had to choose. What lead to that decision was birth control failure. I was on the pill and using a condom because I didn’t want to get pregnant. Plain and simple. Sometimes I used spermicide as well. Now, people never seem to believe I got pregnant using two forms of BC. Well, I did. I admit I wasn’t fully educated. I didn’t know then that antibiotics could make the pill ineffective. Although about 6 months after my abortion when I was again prescribed an antibiotic a new pharmacist did tell me. Drug interactions are their job. Do I blame them? No, of course not. It’s something that happened. And I’ve never used a durex condom ever again. For years after I’d have my partner run water through the condom afterwards to make sure there were no tears. For years I totally abstained during antibiotic regimens and for two weeks after. I took EC a few times out if paranoia. Why? Because I never wanted to be in that situation ever again.
Do I believe abortion can begin a road to mental health issues? Yes. Of course. So can giving birth (postpartum depression). So can adoption. I feel for those who made a choice they regret, abortion and adoption are permanent decisions. As is being a parent.
You know what did happen to me? Being faced with all these opinions telling me how I should feel. How I deserved to die. Be charged with murder. Get cancer. Be forced to be sterilized.
Pro-lifers such as that can cause mental distress in a woman saying such things. They break her down with hate and lies then, making her see it their way, they open their arms and exploit the woman’s personal story to gain support. You know what that says to me? “I had the right to choose, but since I made the wrong choice, you don’t get to choose.” What great logic.
I didn’t regret it then. 9yrs later I don’t regret it either. Do I wonder what if? I wonder what if pertaining to a lot of things. So does everyone else.
I’m now at the point in my life where soon I will be TTC. It may be a year it may be five. Hell, I could be pregnant right now! And when I do get pregnant I will exercise my right to choose again. I will choose to become a mother.
What a dramatic NON-story. This is standard practice at all clinics! Whether they be planned parenthood, or a crisis pregnancy center. You are taken into a room where a nurse and or counselor talks to you. Why? To make sure that you are not being pressured in any way to make any decision. When I went to PP years ago my BF at the time was told he had to wait. A very nice woman said these exact same things to me, yes she was reading from a type of script, there are laws and regulations that must be followed in all medical fields. She wanted to talk to me and see how I felt and what my questions were away from my BF.
More peoole need to share their stories about planned parenthood. Although I would call this a non story.
New Hampshire Speaker William O’Brien doesn’t want students voting because ‘kids vote with their feelings’. Oh, and right wing bible thumpers vote with what, their logic? Old enough to die in a war but should probably wait until they’re older to vote.
It’s countdown to decision 2012 and things are going to get crazy!
I apparently have to explain what is wrong with what this pro lifer, whom turned out to be against sex Ed and birth control, said.
Apparently it isn’t obvious! To do an abortion they use suction 29x greater than a household vacuum….. Really? REALLY? It’s easy to be against abortion if you believe this. The procedure they use is also used for miscarriages and conditions like endometriosis. The suction comes from a tube the size of a straw, do you really think a suction 29 times stronger than your vacuum could come from that? Logic says no. Liars like this person say yes. It’s comparable to maybe the suction you use at the dentist. And the aspiration technique often is pumped by hand with a bulb.
So to be clear: no one sticks a Hoover into your uterus!
As for her stats on injury, she just spews them. She was asked to provide sources and couldn’t. Check out the CDC and WHO for abortion facts of injury. Check web MD for how they are done. I am 100% fine with people being against abortion! We are all entitled to fight for what we believe in. This person is hurting the pro life cause with blatant lies. Don’t ever take anyone’s word to form your own opinion or else whose is it? Choicers who want to fight: do you research! Lifers: do your research!
This story made me beyond angry and actually brought me to tears. Pro Life violence is real. Killing a woman for having an abortion! 42% of women will abort in their reproductive lifetime. Yet we keep it a secret for fear of judgement but also for our lives! We need to speak out, my blog is nameless because I represent all of us! We all do! I have told many in my life, but it is still a private matter that no one else has the right to know. Yet everyday we live in fear. Everyday pro lifers are getting closer to taking away a right used by 42% of women because we are too afraid to fight them back on a personal level. All you hear are their stories of women who regret and I do sympathize to those who regret their choice. They are still one of us. One of the 42%! We all need to share our stories. Abortion has a face and it’s us, it’s our sisters, our best friends, our mothers, and our grandmothers whom fought hard to ensure we had the right! Extremism is everywhere and we can’t fight it with silence!
This is a pro life story, written from the perspective of the fetus. Of course it’s filled with scare tactics about how abortions are done and lies about fetal development. The tone is angry and meant to shame women who abort. It’s also poorly written. I respect people being pro life, but not these kinds. The kind that will call women who abort murderers, wear them down, haunt them, and hate them. Then once they’re broken they open their arms with ‘love and compassion’ so they can exploit the women they try to emotionally torment.
Here’s the first paragraph:
Agony is what I suffered. Misery is what she now lives with everyday of her life. I still remember how it felt to be punctured, and torn apart before I officially died. 600. That was the amount of money she had to save up to get rid of me. With that amount I could have food, clothes, diapers, a stroller, and a warm bed to sleep in. But this is what happens each time a woman denies to nature that lovemaking is meant for reproduction…unless protected. But even then, nature is meant to do one thing, and one thing only…run its coarse. However, in my case, nature was disrupted.
How compassionate. While I find the story laughable (not abortion but this tactic to ban it) I know it would hurt many women who’ve aborted. Which is what they want.
I know how an abortion is performed since I’ve had one. If you have to lie and play with emotions to get people to your side you’re a lazy advocate.
A little laugh at this satirical piece. Sadly when just the ‘fetus’ was pictured many prolifers went crazy thinking it was real. Made me chuckle
Apparently organ donation is often ‘murder’ because it’s murdering a person because most are ‘partially dead’ (no such thing). How very prolife of them telling people not to be organ donors! This article and the links in it are so ignorant and disgusting.
This makes me so sad. Not just because at 16 she planned to have a child at the age of 16. But because at the age of 16 she wants her child to do in life what she’s failed at. What have you failed at at 16? What can’t you still acomplish? Where are the role models to give these girls self esteem and show them their potential? Who’s already given up on her at 16 that she thinks she needs a child to accomplish what she couldn’t? So sad.
PlannedParenthood gets no federal tax money for abortion under the Hyde Ammendment that was established in the 70’s. Except for cases of rape, incest, or life endagerment. Still Indiana is pulling all funding from PP and it has the potential to lose 4 billion dollars in Medicaid funding for low income people. All because they want to ban something that’s already been banned to make it seem like they’re making a difference when the only thing they’re doing is hurting the people that need help the most. What won’t politicians do to make themselves look like they’re accomplishing something? How many people need to suffer for an image? For a lie?
If you don’t force a rape victim to carry the pregnancy if she gets pregnant apparently you don’t care about her. Because forcing her to remain pregnant is the compassionate thing. Aborting because of rape isn’t to “punish a baby” as this woman suggests. Forcing her to remain pregnant sure sounds like a punishment….
