Originally posted by plawrence:
[quote]Originally posted by DonMichaelCorleone:
[b] "my boyrfriend broke my cd player and I had an abortion to get back at him" (exact words spoken from a girl behind me in class last year)
Boy, you sure had me fooled, DM.
All this time I thought you were taking
hard courses.
If someone was in a class that you were in that was dumb enough to do that, and then act even dumber by
telling people that she did, then the course couldn't have been too difficult if
she was in it. [/b][/quote]I believe it was a gen-ed course so taking it wouldn't refelct on me
:p
Originally posted by plawrence:
I'm glad that you don't view the issue as black or white as some do.
And, as I have stated, I'm not in favor of abortion as a method of birth control.
But what do you do in a case where a 15-year old gets pregnant and says
"If I can get an abortion I will, but if I can't I want to keep my baby so I can go on welfare and start collecting some money"?
That issue isn't black or white either, if the mother wanted to go on welfare to truly receive money to take care of the baby then I am for it. But as we know that isn't always the case so it's very hard to say what to do.
In the same respect, I know of 2 maybe 3 people so far that have had abortions in their teens and now are going to counseling or psychiatrists (that the state pays for) becuase they can't handle what they did. So my feelings are if it is a consensual pregnancy and state money has to be spent in either case (welfare to support the baby or tax dollars going towards counseling) I would be all for welfare.
