[katherineisgreat]

I've read about Susan B. Anthony's opposal to abortion... Thanks for the link!

[kinganamort]

thanks for the ping... its as good a read as the first time i read it before posting to repunk... ;) she better give you an A or im coming over there and regulating... hehe.

[backhoe]

katherineisgreat, you probably weren't a member way back when this happened... I chanced upon an abortion post a couple of years ago, and for some reason most of those who replied were the women members of the board, and their "take" on it was very, very interesting.

The first thing I noticed was that they all mentioned "when their children asked that awful question, "Mommy, what's an abortion?'"

Their kids were universally horrified that any Mother "would do that to their babies!"
( An aside? The average age of this question seemed to be 8 or 9 years, which rather horrified me- I was a teenager before I ever heard of it! )

The other thing I read- and God as my Judge, it made my skin crawl, the hairs on my neck stand up, it was sooo eerie-- one woman asked her toddler
( about 2 years old, as she put it, "not really able to talk much yet, just babbling words..." )
"Honey,what was it like when you were in my belly?"

His answer? "Wet..."

Somebody out there explain to this old wrecker driver, who isn't as well educated as some folks, not as "sophisticated"-- how a little child who can't talk well, who was "just a blob of protoplasm- a 'fetus'"- could be aware of "wet" in his mother's womb?