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To: the808bass
you can dispute my usage of the word "convenience" here but only at risk of distorting your original claim that abortion is the taking of a human life

Most of what I dispute is your ability to walk in another's persons shoes and be able to pass judgement on them with a spreadsheet. That's not to say there aren't women out their who are having multiple abortions and showing a callous disregard for human life in the process. I've never met a woman like that. Those I know who have had abortions, many for the reason you've described above -- nevertheless were touched forever by the event, and would never do it again. If anything, in their cases, it made them far more responsible with their sexuality.
53 posted on 10/29/2007 7:38:40 PM PDT by Sadecki ("Do not mistake for conspiracy and intrigue what can best be explained by stupidity and incompetence)
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To: Sadecki
Most of what I dispute is your ability to walk in another's persons shoes and be able to pass judgement on them with a spreadsheet.

Well played. However, I did not choose the women's reasons for terminating their pregnancy for them. They chose the reason in the survey. The fact that the vast majority of the reasons do not seem compelling from the benefit of outside perspective does not minimize the weight of the decision. You cannot simultaneously claim the decision is weighty and then defend an abortion based upon the mother "would have to find a new place to live." Of course, the "spreadsheet" was chosen to simply display the reasons that the women gave in the easiest-to-read fashion. Moving anecdotes would be dismissed for the opposite reason, I'm sure.

Those I know who have had abortions, many for the reason you've described above -- nevertheless were touched forever by the event, and would never do it again. If anything, in their cases, it made them far more responsible with their sexuality.

I'm not sure that this point is a strong support for your argument. The fact that the women would never do it again does not seem to me to be good support. And if the option was not available for "convenience", would it have made them far more responsible with their sexuality in the pre- rather than the post- ?

56 posted on 10/29/2007 7:51:13 PM PDT by the808bass
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