stubeeef said:
JSW Congrats on your second daughter! That is awesome, you're defintately outnumbered now! Heck in my house even the dog is a girl.
Thanks - and ditto. The only other male in the house is a fish, and I only know that because it's a Betta. Actually, I don't even know that. They told me so at the pet store.
As far as abortion: I don't find it to be a good thing. However, I find it often to be a lesser evil. Like I wrote earlier, my wife's an L&D nurse and sees a lot of newborns who are essentially screwed at birth. A good friend work in Family Services elsewhere and sees lots of kids whose parents didn't want them. While adoption is a great concept, it's often true that the process of giving up a child for adoption isn't as easy as one might think, and a lot of times, once the kid's born and taken home, it's a lot harder. There are a lot of abused, beaten, tormented children who arguably wish they'd never been born.
While I find abortion videos to be disturbing, and while I especially find later abortions troubling (I have no - zero - problem with the day after pill or anything that terminates a pregnancy in the first month), it's also true that such videos are made to create such emotions. Make a video showing a mouse and her young dying from rat poison, or one showing cattle being slaughtered, or one showing a child dying during a surgery that was only performed because death was certain otherwise. These are sad things. But it doesn't mean that mice should run rampant in homes or that all people should be vegetarians or carrion eaters or that risky surgery shouldn't be performed.
Abortions are bad. But they are often - as a whole - better than the alternative. And they aren't done for the sake of men, generally - they're done to give young women a chance at life without the act of being a mother while a young teen destroying her ability to get ahead in life (or greatly increasing the difficulty of doing so). When abortion rates went up, crime went down decades later. Unwanted children are not a good thing for society.
I certainly favor adoption over abortion, but I favor abortion over giving birth to an unwanted child. A fetus might feel pain for an instant. A child can experience years of torment before dying or surviving to a scarred adulthood.
And for those who say "they should have thought of that before they did it": I wish I was as perfect as you. If you insult those who have made serious mistakes in their teenage years, you insult a number of good friends of mine.
