Pro life suggestions

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Registered: 05-12-2004
Pro life suggestions
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Wed, 09-08-2004 - 12:49am
Today I was leaving school, walking thru the parking lot and talking to my friend Kristi on the phone, when I passed a car that was covered with anti-abortion stickers all over the rear window, so much that it there was only a square foot space for the driver to see through, (So I asked myself how pro life that person could really be since traffic fatalities did not seem to mean a thing to him, and it was indeed a him, because i saw him driving later on today)

FIRST THING FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!

I AM A PRO LIFE LIBERAL!!!!

My friend Kristi, who I was talking ot on the phone as I walked by is a social worker. I told her about this car and she said something that I found to be very thoughtful and I wanted to share it with anyone who is a real pro lifer. She said, "If those people are so pro life, why don't they become foster parents? Or volunteer in the big brothers big sisters program? Or donate money or time to teen parenting aide programs, or teen sex education? If a person is really pro life, why stop with the unborn, it seems hypocritical..." I thought what she said made a whole lot of sense. Being a pro life liberal, it made me examine my own life, and what I am doing to support life that already exists.

And that, to keep on topic with this board, made me ask which party is helping more with these lives that exist already? obviously none of them are going to outlaw abortion, but, who is more willing to help these kids when they are born?

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Registered: 08-20-2004
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 2:00pm
Oh, I'm sorry. You're right. Sex is only for Rich people.
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Registered: 05-12-2004
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 8:46pm
LOL! That was wonderfully put, Nisa77! Seems people have that attitude, doesn't it?
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Registered: 05-12-2004
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 8:58pm
The thing is, I dont think anyone is asking for a free hand. And I think you are misinformed if you think that sex leading to pregnancy is common knowledge. When you grow up in a community where girls are losing thier virginity before they are teenagers, then you will understand how they might not be getting information about birth control. When you understand what it is like to make a choice between six boxes of macaroni and cheese for the next weeks meals or your birth control pills, then you might judge others. When you are so down and defeated by trying to make ends meet, and the only thing that makes you feel a little better is when your boyfriend or husband or whoever can give you some affection and you end up having sex because it is the one thing on earth that makes you feel good because you are not stupid enough to try drugs... then you might be in a place to judge. Until then, you and I are not in that place, so why act like we know? I think people only want an opportunity, not even an open door, just one that is not deadbolted. I dont think anyone has the goal of going on welfare, well, i suppose there are some, but most people prefer to make it on thier own. Lets not judge, alright, and as far as sex being for the main purpose of creating children, then here are some questions for you, First, why then, is sex enjoyable? and why does the vagina secrete lubrication upon arousal on days when one is not ovulating? and why then, do men have more than one sperm each time they ejaculate? I mean, if that is the main purpose for sex.... I should think it would be disagreeable experience when a woman is not ovulating. Just a thought...
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Registered: 02-23-2004
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 9:03pm
< She said, "If those people are so pro life, why don't they become foster parents? Or volunteer in the big brothers big sisters program? Or donate money or time to teen parenting aide programs, or teen sex education? >

Many of them do, including myself (I donate both time and money to my local women's shelter and through the Catholic Church help programs that support unwed mothers who choose not to abort, both financially and emotionally). But do I have to be volunteering my time with juvenile delinquents in order to be against crime? Is every person who is opposed to the war in Iraq a hypocrite if they are not right there on the front lines acting as human shields? Since someone may not have the resources to take care of other people's children, they ought to be in favor of those people killing their children? I don't really buy that line of reasoning.



I believe both sides are willing to help these kids, they just differ in their view of the best ways to help them. Liberals believe that unwanted kids are best helped by government welfare programs, while conservatives believe that encouraging economic development and allowing people to keep more of their own money, also demanding accountability in our public schools to insure greater success, is a better way to insure that the parents of these children are more willing and able to care for them. I can't speak for all Republicans but personally I believe the solution to unwanted children lies not in providing free and easy access to abortion, but in creating conditions in which these children ARE wanted and ARE cared for.

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 9:05pm


I don't support the death penalty, and I support the war in Iraq because I believe it will ultimately result in many more lives saved than lives lost.

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 9:06pm


To a person who believes an unborn child is a human being, that response makes no more sense than "Don't wan't your children? Go ahead and kill them."

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 9:09pm


An abortion costs more than a year or two of birth control, so if you're arguing that abortion is necessary because poor people can't afford birth control, that argument really doesn't fly.

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Registered: 03-29-2003
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 9:11pm
TOTALLY Agree!!!!!

I also am pro-life, against death penalty, and for the war in Iraq. For the exact same reasons: It will save more lives than it costs.

Carrie

 

 

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 9:52pm
I disagree. As Nisa77 pointed out, many innocent people have been murdered by the state.

C

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Wed, 09-08-2004 - 10:00pm
We didn't and don't know that as a fact, but in the meantime more than 1000 US military have died and who really knows how many "innocent" Iraqi lives have been lost because of Our "rush to war".

C

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