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There is another person who is affected by the abortion.


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Begging the question.

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Do they say whether Tylenol will bring the fetus back to life?


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Nonsense said just for fun.

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Do they have anything to say about the emotional wreckage that sometimes results when young women are forced into decisions like this by inconvenienced boyfriends? Or is that part of that other discussion that we should somehow ignore as if it isn't at the heart of the issue?


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I really, really wish the pot wouldn't feel so comfortable calling the kettle black here. But in our culture at present, it largely can get off scot free with this sort of thing.

Do the people telling this woman she's a bad, selfish, even murderous person want to step up and take any responsibility for the emotional wreckage they put this vulnerable person through?

No! Hell no!

They often don't give a damn about her at all. Just about their beliefs and an opportunity to beat her about the head and neck with them so they can feel better about THEMSELVES. Not for anyone else whatsoever.

If they care so much about this woman, where are they after the "child", that blob of cells thus far that they say they esteem so highly, is born? Nowhere, right? How many of these people will give a damn if the child is born to an unprepared mother? One with little ability to care for the child, one that might not even care for the child? I mean really, not just by phoning each other and congratulating themselves for their lofty moral insight. How come all the love is there before the baby is out, and after that, we can all just go f*ck ourselves?

When I see the people so highly praising any and every birth to any and everyone under any and ever circumstance actually step up to the plate and start caring for kids and mothers after they're born, then I'll take them seriously. When they start helping out, coming over and minding the kid, donating to orphanages and other results of their "helpful" ideas, when they start adopting leftover, unwanted abused kids and fostering them, and do it for 18 years at a stretch, then it's time to take them at their word that they're truly Christian, truly care, or are even paying attention.

Instead, what they're there for is to heap scorn on both parties and feel good about themselves for doing so, until one or both crumple under social pressure, if not under force of law. When the "caring" people are there, it's when it's easy and at zero cost of any kind, to them. And what they think is a moral call is instead a celebration of irresponsibility and then a firmly closed door in the face of the consequences. They don't give a damn about the kid.

But when it comes to emotional wreckage, they are happy to pile on the bandwagon and make the potential mother and father feel as bad as they possibly can and even call them murderers.

This strikes me as moral irresponsibility of the highest degree. It's mere playing at morality, and not even really skirting around the edges of insight of the potential mother and father, much less oneself.

If it were me, I know I sure wouldn't be turning potential births into opportunities to make potential mothers feel like scumbags and push them into things they may be completely unready for in any fashion. And I sure wouldn't skip out on the consequences of THAT decision urging childbirth to everyone every time by basically dropping the subject once the child is born and taking no further part in its life or well-being. To me, that enshrines hypocrisy and is what defines a lack of morality as well as anything out there.

Where are the people saying, hey, it's not such a great idea to make people feel bad about not having babies, unless we plan on taking over the raising of the kid ourselves and REALLY care about the person, not just about ourselves and patting ourselves on the back about our pet ideas, then taking the quickest exit ourselves and getting the hell out of there?