Originally posted by Sicilian Babe:
... I wondered how you would feel if your daughters availed themselves of this legal avenue, or would it not matter at all? I do know a couple whose teenage daughter was pregnant. They promised to raise the child as their own and fully support her. Then, when she was about seven months pregnant, they told her they would never allow the child in their house and she would have to give it up for adoption. Since she was only 16, she did so. Her parents told her that they lied so that she wouldn't have an abortion. I was wondering your take on something like that.
Please, SB!! Despite our differences both past and present I do like and have a degree of respect for you. Don't belittle yourself like some who insist on playing that "What if you were..." game.
What if I were the parent of a homosexual who wanted to get married?
What if I were the parent of a registered sex offender?
What if I were the parent of an uncircumsised son?
What if I were the parent of a girl who were raped and got pregnant?
What if I were the parent of a girl who got pregnant of her own will, in other words without having been raped?
What if, what if, what if!!!
The initial subject of this thread was the banning of (nearly all) abortion in S. Dakota. Naturally, it evolved into a debate over Roe v. Wade. That's fine, some (like me) would like to see it overturned and some (like you) would not like to see it overturned. That's still fine. The problem with you and your buddies is that you feel you can bring up every possible scenario, every possible family situation and say, "How would you feel about THAT?" "What would your 'take' be on THIS situation?" "Well...ok then, I meant to word it THIS way. But how do you feel about THIS story that happened to a neighbor...?"
Even when someone decides to offer their own personal family story of a tragedy that ended up in a happy story, some have the nerve to twist into a "Does this mean if it were YOUR daughter that...."
Even when THAT question gets an honest reply, it's twisted again into... "So, you're saying that you would 'require or force' your daughter to...??"
What does banter like this accomplish? The problem with liberals is that they ARE judgemental, they pretend to themselves and others not to be, but of course they are. Because as this thread proves, they simply cannot accept a POV that collides with their own (which of course is the
right one, every time in every situation).
Do you think you're going to change my mind about Roe v. Wade? Do you think I'm going to (or am trying to) change yours? The answer to both of course is...NO!!
So please, cut the crap. If you believe abortion should remain legal regardless of the circumstances of the pregnancy, regardless of the situation of the mother, that above all else it should be considered 'a woman's choice', then so be it...that is your belief. I happen to disagree. If you have a problem with that, then the problem is yours, not mine.
For what it's worth...I do feel that the parents in your story (if it's true) did an aweful thing to their daughter by purposely lying to her and then turning her away. In that particular case, they did force her to do what THEY wanted but did so through deceit and trickery. In reality, they took away ALL her options by leading her to believe they would help her, when they knew they wouldn't.
These people simply did a horrible thing to their daughter and in reality, the overlying dynamic of this particular situation really had little to do with the abortion debate.
And my feeling still is that one day, Roe v. Wade should be overturned.
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