This is the point that we have been trying to make all along, but it doesn't get through to those with self-serving fundie agendas.
I do think it is MORE pro-life to allow someone to live their own lives as they choose and in the best way they can. We all make decisions that are not glorious, we make choices that we have to live with every day. Not all are happy ones, but we do the best we can.
I find it extremely ironic and somewhat sad that the most insane, adamant attacker of pro-choicers is one who has had an abortion. Instead of having self-compassion for her decision, she attacks those who support the right to choose-something that she herself did.
Little story: When my GIFT procedure was found to be successful, my progesterone count, the number that shows if one is expecting, was so high that I was told there are definitely more than one in me. I said in response, ' I am NOT having 5!' and was told that would be discussed when it was time.
I'm grateful that I never had to make such a decision-I was carrying two.
I know women who have aborted, including one of my sisters-twice-and it is an agonizing decision, but they get through it. I would never ever be so presumptuous as to tell someone else what they should and should not do with their own lives. There's the saying, 'there but for the grace of God, go I' and while I am not religious at all, it has merit. Instead of attacking those that find themselves in dire straits, we should empathize, help and hope they can get through their own crises with little or no scars. This is not what I have seen through the words of those here that dare to call themselves 'pro-life'.
