I was ready to give a what to the twitter until I found it was against Abortion as I agree with your article. Men are more likely to say go have one I do not want it having the issue so pro abort. Men should be more responsible for their actions.

Hmmm…I’m not pro-choice because I’m looking for equality with men.  Actually, I feel lucky that I can bear a child.  I’m pro-choice because I can’t tell another woman/child that she has to bear a baby because she had sex.  I’d rather work on the conditions that would make abortions unnecessary.

CindyC, No one can be Catholic & pro-choice.  It is a grave sin to support abortion no matter the cause.  If a woman/child has sex, then that woman/child is responsible for what happens.  To kill an innocent child b/c of a woman/child’s poor decision is wrong, plain & simple.

Women do deserve Better!

Reminds me of this post: Freedom of Choice or Right to Life.

http://tima-catholicmom.blogspot.com/search/label/Freedom of Choice or Right to Life

This is why it is so crucially important that people know about what organizations are out there to help women in unexpected or ill timed pregnancies.  A few months back I blogged about my experience as a woman in a crisis pregnancy, and about the organization that helped me.  The Nurturing Network was the first place where I felt like I didn’t need to apologize for having gotten pregnant, and their encouragement and advocacy for me meant that nearly 7 years down the line I am the married mother of 4 children who graduated on time with a B.A. in Theology.  Here’s the post, for anyone interested:

http://funtohavefun.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/story-time/

Kudos to FFL and the groups who take a pro-life feminist ethos and turn it into practical action for women who want to nurture the lives of their children, and make the most of their own lives as well.

Sorry, CindyC, but I find your position to be very cowardly and foolish. Society tells people all the time what they can and cannot do when it comes to how their sexual choices affect other human beings. We tell each other not to cheat on our spouses, not to molest the little girl or boy down the street, not to pay for sex with prostitutes and on and on and on.

To say that YOUR child conceived through sex is perfectly entitled to the right to life but SOME OTHER WOMAN’s child can be denied that right to life simply because that woman isn’t you is the ultimate prejudice, in my book.

It is an irony in the “pro choice” movement that many women that have had abortions did so feeling like they had no other choice.  Crisis pregnancy centers help women have a true choice many times and actually help the woman.  (Opposed to the other mentality family/friends/planned parenthood/society that pressure women to “take care of the problem”)  Being pro-life is truly being pro-woman.

Behold the logical consequence of supporting elective abortion, eugenics:

“On Down Syndrome and other self-inflicted tragedies”

Margaret Sanger would be proud.

Atom HEart FAther,
That commentary you linked to is so sad, one would hope it’s an April Foll joke.  But, it’s not, and that mindset is only growing. The list of reasons to decide one is unworthy of life gets ever longer at both ends of life.  God help us

Johanna,
Beautiful testament to the value of helping the needy among us without layering on condemnation on them.

Danielle,

I think you are right on.

When I was a freshman in college one of my friends got pregnant (with her third child) and decided to abort. She asked me to go to the clinic with her.  I didn’t feel right about it. But, my mother raised me to be an open-minded liberal femenist. When I talked to my mother about not wanting to go. She said it wasn’t my place to judge my friend. It was my job to support her. So I took my friend. I begged her repeatedly not to do it. But, she chose to do it because she felt it was right for her.

As she and the other young women left the waiting room to watch their video I almost got sick. Some of the girls cried and got last minute hugs from their boyfriends. But, when the girls left the room. You should have seen the look of relief on the guys faces. I know this doesn’t happen in every case. But, it happened that day.

I saw abortion for what it truly was. Heartbreaking to women and convient for men:(

Thank you, Maureen.  I mean, we all make mistakes.  We all fall short of who we are called to be, and all of us have been in that place where we are so afraid that we don’t know how we can go through with the challenges ahead of us. 

But violence is not, and has never been the remedy for fear.  Neither is pity or condemnation.  Only love (and the God who is Love) can bring us through the problems in which we find ourselves, and in offering love to those in need we find that we offer them God’s love through our words and our hands.  Women deserve better than being forced to choose between a shattered future and a broken heart.  Women deserve better than abortion.

This is very, very true. I know several cases where women opted for abortion not because they wanted to, but because their boyfriends said abort or I leave (and most left anyway) or their fathers did. One girl in high school had no choice at all. Her parents drove her to Mortgentaler’s clinic in Toronto and she was aborted even though she did not want the abortion. Her say didn’t have any weight to her parents or the staff, who all felt they knew better what was best for her. I have a vivid memory after that of being at a friend’s house when her father came in, enraged at hearing that this other girl had been pregnant. This was a Catholic family, and her father, in front of a few of us girls gathered there, pointed his finger at his daughter and said: “If you *ever* come home pregnant don’t think you’ll embarrass me with being an unwed mother. I’ll have you flat on your back at Mortgentaler’s clinic your head will spin!” More recently a coworker told me she was pregnant - and I was as well. We were about the same length of time along, about two months. Her boyfriend, an American, was up here studying at university in Canada. He was furious she’d fallen pregnant. She was a Muslim and already felt guilty about having premarital sex - and now he said have the abortion or I leave. Have it and we’ll get married after I graduate. So, despite talking about other options for her, she chose to abort and had the termination done on her birthday. He graduated a few months later, broke up with her, and moved back to the US. I hear that some young guys call girls like this their “college wives.” She ended up on the psych ward and left work. Where’s the choice in these scenarios????

These are really great comments.  When I was pregnant with my first, a girl was in the bed next to me. We were both 22 weeks and our babies were kicking. She was having an abortion and I was trying to get well to hang on to my unborn child. Three times she had to go back to the abortion room because the baby wouldn’t die. It was the most horrible thing I ever witnessed. I went on to have 11 more pregnancies and would never entertain the thought of an abortion even though everyone around me was having them. Today, our nine children, are either having babies or saving babies.  It is hideous to think that getting rid of the evidence of the consequence of a woman being used for pleasure is the solution. Any man who wants his baby aborted is more guilty then the mother of the baby.

Yes, we all make mistakes. God bless those who are dealing with the grief of an abortion. I wonder how many women know how much support their is for them. Its scary to raise a child alone. Their are so many organizations there to help. Society likes to keep them under the table, however, just like the long term effects of an abortion. We have so much option in life. Which car model to choose, which colour ipod to buy…but when it comes to a crisis pregnancy, many women believe there is only one option, one choice. Im all about choice, so lets give young, worried, concerned ladies the options to keep their babies, the support, direction and helping hand they need to say ‘yes’ to Gods miracle in their womb.

Jay- Good point!  The pro-abortionists really push the “pro-choice” slogan as if they want to relay abortion as a positve thing, but so many women are driven to abortion because they feel they have NO choice.  A paradox really…

Okay folks, here is my take on some of the above noted comments.
The notion of “I am pro-choice because I don’t think we have a right to tell other people what to do with their bodies” is a fundamental human thinking error.  Here’s why…
Since the dawn of man there have been rules that govern what we can and cannot do.  From “don’t eat the fruit from THAT tree” to “do not urinate in public areas” relate to us ways in which we are expected to behave.  Big ones that the majority of mentally healthy people in America and the rest of the civilized world agree on are murder, child molestation, theft, and so on.  Things that are JUST WRONG no matter which way you look at it.  The truth is, we all think we have a right to tell other people hat to do with their bodies, persons, property, etc. at the benefit of a smoothly functioning society.  In other words, we have always told other people what they can or cannot do.  For the argument of what one can do with their own body-drugs are illegal, but it’s MY body I’ll do what I want.  Prostitution is illegal, but it’s MY body I’ll do what I want.  See my point here?
The problem is that we’ve been beaten over the head with the idea that women have a right to choose abortion that many just come to that conclusion without giving much thought as to whether or not they REALLY think people have a “right” to do whatever they want. 
I believe abortion is WRONG no matter which way you look at it.
Lord have mercy on us sinners.

Kimberly, that was an awesome comment! You said everything I was thinking about what CindyC said.  It is backwards, and it is a problem.  Society has definitely brainwashed us into thinking it’s none of our business to tell women what to do with their bodies.  And as you pointed out, we tell people what to do all the time and punish them for going against it.  It’s been a long hard fight for pro-lifers and it’s going to be a hard fight for a while to come still I’m afraid.  We definitely do need to continue praying for those women who feel they have no “choice” when they get and abortion, and also for those who ignore their consciences and commit this act anyway.  Pray.

I wonder how many people would have voted for our current president if he had said that the first thing he would do as president would be to sign a bill making it legal to kill any of your biological children under the age of two.  This is the road we are headed down if we continue to show such reckless disregard for human life.  soon no life will be sacred.