Originally posted by Denyce
I would like to see someone have this discussion without bring up the morality of abortion. Because it REALLY isn't about abortion. Never in any of my posts do you see me say that I feel abortion is ok. My position on abortion is really irrelevent. The controversy is about Choice. But Right to Lifers always resort back to whether or not abortion is morally correct. I think they are afraid to try and argue that women shouldn't have a choice without bring up the morality issue.

Everyone on this earth has differing values and morals and no one wants someone else's forced upon them. That is why this is about Choice. Everyone should have the freedom to choose how they wish to live their own lives.

I happen to think that with the population explosion and the increasing lack of natural resources that it is extremely immoral and irresponsible to have more than one child. So how would everyone feel if this became the popular opinion and those that became pregnant a second or third or fourth time were FORCED to submit to abortions because of the "right to lifers"?? With the lack of resources it isn't fair to bring into this world people that cannot be fed and clothed properly and having extra children takes food away from the people already born?? People wouldn't like that either. Don't we all just want the freedom of choice to make our own stupid decisions?

Think about it?

Denyce

I agree. It is called Pro-CHOICE, not Pro-ABORTION. I had my son when I was a twenty-two year old single mother. And yet, I'm pro-choice. I chose to have a child. But, it was my CHOICE. I didn't need a middle-aged, male senator telling me I was too stupid to know my own mind.

Once we start taking away the rights of a certain group, everyone's rights are in danger. The stripping away of liberties is dangerous ground, one thing leads to another. In the words of Pastor Martin Niemöller after World War II, "First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me."

Whatever your personal feelings about abortion are, they should not keep you from being a proponant of free will and educated choices. If abortion is a "sin", then God or whomever you worship will take care of that part of the issue on Judgement Day. Let's not try to do God's job for him. Let's do ours: get out and vote in November, and vote for freedom and choice ... choice in whatever it is in life that merits it.