Anger.

[rootofnewt]

If anything, becoming a mother has only solidified my pro-choice stance. My pregnancy was planned and desired. I love my child.

But I wouldn't wish pregnancy or parenting on anyone who didn't want it. Nor would I ever want to force someone to carry a child who would most certainly die before or shortly after birth. If I had found myself at 20 weeks, facing an ultrasound of a fetus who had defects not compatible with life, I would have fought very hard to terminate the pregnancy, though I'm not sure what my options would have been in Virginia. The thought of bringing a child into the world only to make it suffer? That is cruel and heartless. If I had a daughter, I wouldn't want her to ever be in the position where she was forced to carry a pregnancy to term.

Dr. Tiller was killed by terrorists. And the gunman wasn't the only one.

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[mmymoon.livejournal.com]

I don't think people think about that part ever, either.

I haven't even been pregnant, and am ridiculously un-empathetic, and I know enough to know that having a miscarriage (or baby that only lives a short while) is one of the world experiences in human existence.

Hell, I am not joking or being silly when I say that the very high risk of miscarriage was one of the nails in the coffin for my uterus. I knew that would be worse than anything.

Carrying it to term and watching it suffer?

Ugh.

[rageisagift.livejournal.com]

it makes me so sad people are so anti pro-choice, that they result to violence. it's sad. there are many faces to abortion and i myself am one of those faces, whom had a million and one reasons to make that choice. i hope that the ability to have the choice remains and the doctors that help those women remain safe.

[ashbet]

Agreed. Absolutely agreed.

My pregnancy was life-threatening, and I made a CHOICE to continue. My decision would have been meaningless if I'd been forced into carrying to term, putting my own life at risk. Because I had the freedom to make that choice, I didn't feel pressured or like a human broodmare, like some of those fundamentalists would like to turn me into.

If they'd told me that Kira would have lifelong disabilities or birth defects, though, I would have chosen abortion. I don't think that bringing a child into the world who has birth defects incompatible with life (or with a decent-quality life) is at all fair to the child.

Sometimes, being a loving parent means making the difficult decision not to carry a pregnancy to term. I can't even begin to get behind the logic of someone who thinks that, say, giving birth to an anencephalic child and watching it die slowly is somehow more "moral" than terminating the pregnancy and preventing the child from suffering.

I'm so sorry for his family. And Operation Rescue can burn in Hell.

-- A :/

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

I can't even begin to get behind the logic of someone who thinks that, say, giving birth to an anencephalic child and watching it die slowly is somehow more "moral" than terminating the pregnancy and preventing the child from suffering.

Speaking as someone who did clinic defense for *years* (week after week after week) and got up close and personal with the anti-choice fringe? There is no logic behind it. Only the deeply-held conviction that the child's condition is God's Will, and that we have no business interfering in the process.

The anti-choice leadership on the other hand? They're all about controlling women, and are as convinced as I am that a woman who doesn't control her reproduction doesn't control her life.

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

Yes. Just yes.

[cassidyrose.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Yes.