That's why pro-lifers are annoying... for them it's just the pregnancy that matters, and beyond that, they expect the woman to be on her own - or preferrably with a man - to raise the child.
I'm a non-aggressive pro-lifer myself, not for religious reasons but because no one's been able to convince me why abortion is not infanticide. To kill a baby after it's born is unconscionable. But rewind the clock a day before it's born. Still unconscionable. Then a month. (Gray area? Only because it's gross?) Then seven months. It's all the exact same person. I am the same me whether I'm 90 years old, 9 years old, or still incubating for a few months before I face the world. (Just explaining where I'm coming from; you don't have to agree)
Anyhow, I'm pro-life and I have no expectation for the woman to raise the child. To the contrary, that sounds terrible. After my volunteer work with teens, I see the terrible effects it has on the kid to grow up knowing that their parents don't want them.
I think discrimination and marginalization of women while pregnant should be punished as strictly as hate crimes and it should be made extremely easy to give the child up for adoption. No one should be forced to raise an unwanted or unplanned child. But nor is infanticide a civilized solution.
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regna
Generalizing much?
Date: 2009-02-04 03:31 pm (UTC)I'm a non-aggressive pro-lifer myself, not for religious reasons but because no one's been able to convince me why abortion is not infanticide. To kill a baby after it's born is unconscionable. But rewind the clock a day before it's born. Still unconscionable. Then a month. (Gray area? Only because it's gross?) Then seven months. It's all the exact same person. I am the same me whether I'm 90 years old, 9 years old, or still incubating for a few months before I face the world. (Just explaining where I'm coming from; you don't have to agree)
Anyhow, I'm pro-life and I have no expectation for the woman to raise the child. To the contrary, that sounds terrible. After my volunteer work with teens, I see the terrible effects it has on the kid to grow up knowing that their parents don't want them.
I think discrimination and marginalization of women while pregnant should be punished as strictly as hate crimes and it should be made extremely easy to give the child up for adoption. No one should be forced to raise an unwanted or unplanned child. But nor is infanticide a civilized solution.