Very wonderful comments. I would add about Planned Parenthood, though Catholics believe birth control is a sin, I would argue that Planned Parenthood has single handedly driven down the abortion rates by providing contraception. I do not have exact numbers but common sense would say to me, that the number of unplanned pregnacies prevented is substantial. I am very confused on christian views regarding contraception. It isn't just single women that use it...plenty of married women use it as well. It is very expensive to have children!
I too was raped and CHOSE to not abort. The key word here is I chose that path for myself. The decision was made easier because I had supportive and loving family around me who helped me through this. I was not able to care for the child myself as I had just burried my husband who died of cancer and shortly after this the rape occurred. It took over a year of counceling and therapy for me to get to the point where I wasn't suicidal. My baby died during childbirth...likely a result of intense stress that I was under during this process. I would not choose to go through that experience again. I would never never never take that choice away from another person. I know the HELL I went through and realize that not everyone has the same kind of support that I did. Abortion is not murder...this is a religious notion that you have and there is supposed to be seperation of church and state. We are guaranteed under the constitution of the United States of America the right to abortion. It is a right of privacy issue. If abortion became illegal, or criminal then you would prefer to put women in prison who were raped and get abortions? For how long? And doctors that perform the abortions? For how long? Do you prefer to see women who get abortions get the death penalty? Because in some states pre-meditated murder has an automatic death sentence penalty. These questions need answers!
Very wonderful comments. I would add about Planned Parenthood, though Catholics believe birth control is a sin, I would argue that Planned Parenthood has single handedly driven down the abortion rates by providing contraception. I do not have exact numbers but common sense would say to me, that the number of unplanned pregnacies prevented is substantial. I am very confused on christian views regarding contraception. It isn't just single women that use it...plenty of married women use it as well. It is very expensive to have children!
If men could get pregnant there would be an abortion clinic on every corner and the morning after pill would come in a wide variety of flavors.
I too was raped and CHOSE to not abort. The key word here is I chose that path for myself. The decision was made easier because I had supportive and loving family around me who helped me through this. I was not able to care for the child myself as I had just burried my husband who died of cancer and shortly after this the rape occurred. It took over a year of counceling and therapy for me to get to the point where I wasn't suicidal. My baby died during childbirth...likely a result of intense stress that I was under during this process. I would not choose to go through that experience again. I would never never never take that choice away from another person. I know the HELL I went through and realize that not everyone has the same kind of support that I did. Abortion is not murder...this is a religious notion that you have and there is supposed to be seperation of church and state. We are guaranteed under the constitution of the United States of America the right to abortion. It is a right of privacy issue. If abortion became illegal, or criminal then you would prefer to put women in prison who were raped and get abortions? For how long? And doctors that perform the abortions? For how long? Do you prefer to see women who get abortions get the death penalty? Because in some states pre-meditated murder has an automatic death sentence penalty. These questions need answers!