I believe that life should be defended from CONCEPTION.
Nice, but that still doesn't help to supposedly categorize those of us who defend the choice up to a certain point and then feel it shouldn't be allowed. My point was to say that you can be both pro-choice and pro-life personally AND politically.
I hope you can recognize that some of us "can't see" because we have strong beliefs about the sanctity of life... and that some of us don't feel or desire to feel any sort of "superiority"... and I hope that you will forgive me and accept that I'm being honest and respect you enough not to "mince" words so to speak.
And there's plently of people who retain their political stance of pro-choice who also feel that all life is special and begins at conception. We just recognize that not all may feel as we do and that we are in no position to sit and judge those who see things differently.
I can't speak for others... but I have done this not to compare the things... but to illustrate that I didn't understand the hesitance to speak out on certain things (such as a crime) but "keep to myself" on this particular issue.
But what you fail to see is that for those who have had abortions, and those of us that feel for them, it comes off this way. No matter what you were trying to do,...it comes off as putting them on the same level and it is hurtful and offensive.
I don't generalize in this way.... I'm sure that some do and some don't... what is at issue for me is that procured abortion is the deliberate and direct killing, by whatever means it is carried out, of a human being in the initial phase of his or her existence, extending from conception to birth.
I can not think of one woman I have known or can imagine, going for an abortion just out of spite and malice. If such a woman existed I certainly wouldn't want her being responsible for carrying and bringing and possibly raising a child in this world anyway and it is probably best they had an abortion.
Again... I'm sure some do....and some don't...
Same as above pretty much.
I agree that it will be with her for eternity.... but I'm not sure of what you mean by the last sentence here.
To use such analogies and comparisons is like twisting an (already existent) emotional knife in the heart. It outwardly appears to be done out of malice and hate for the woman who has made such a decision or may make the decision sometime in her life.
It sounds like you are hurt... and I hope that I don't add to that... but I appreciate you discussing this with me.
I am not hurt, I am offended. I am sure that this thread, along with others in which the same tactics are used, has hurt some women in this forum by the callous way in which things are compared. As if they are no better than Hitler, a rapist, or what-have-you. Make a tough, emotionally draining, and controversial decision in your life and then have people constantly compare your actions to that of a pedophile and a rapist and see how it may affect you.