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Prolife, Prochoice, or Mind your own business

Posted by robertstevenson • 3/31/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: controversial, prochoice, prolife

Are you prolife or prochoice? Or do you want to tell me to mind my own business. Touchy topic but an important one especially during election time.

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3/31/08

ekim941

Pro choice. I think that the only thing worse than scraping off a few cells is forcing someone to raise and unwanted child.
Unwanted children are typically abused or neglected.
Ultimately, the use of condoms should be practiced more but many people are careless. That's the unfortunate truth.
It's just my opinion, don't hate me.

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3/31/08

clioandme

As a voter, pro choice. In private life, it isn't that easy. And also in private life: mind your own business sounds about right.

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1. 3/31/08
  
  ekim941
  
  Very PC answer. Good job.
2. 3/31/08
  
  clioandme
  
  It's how I feel.
3. 3/31/08
  
  Xight
  
  I'm with the stoner.
4. 3/31/08
  
  ekim941
  
  I agree with you stoneman. It's not a black and white issue, there's a lot to consider. I think it should be judged on a case by case basis so I say pro choice. Pro choice and pro abortion are not the same thing.
5. 3/31/08
  
  offendedblogger
  
  I am very pro-choice on most things, and I believe 100% in personal responsibility.
  
  I personally dislike abortion, but who am I to say someone else can't have a legal procedure done? From a religious standpoint, it isn't up to me to judge their choices, either. It is between them and their God, if they believe in one.
  
  I hate, hate, HATE having other's opinions of what I can do within *my* legal rights shoved down my throat, so I refuse to do that sort of thing to anyone else.
6. 3/31/08
  
  Xight
  
  Yea you can be against abortions, but still respect the right of someones choice.
7. 3/31/08
  
  offendedblogger
  
  Xight, the same can be said for many things, I think.
  
  I feel the same way about legal pornography. I may not like or approve of it or partake in it, but who am I to say another adult can't?
  
  People need to mind their own backyards before pointing out the weeds in mine is my mentality.
8. 3/31/08
  
  jafabrit
  
  Brilliant answer stoneman and totally agree.
9. 3/31/08
  
  Xight
  
  I guess if someone pulls the weed from your back yard you'd be very angry. I mean having nothing to smoke and all. =D
10. 3/31/08
  
  ekim941
  
  I had a GF years ago that aborted my child. I was devastated, I wanted that baby. But it was her body, 9 months plus 18 years and she had the right to choose, as she should have. I didn't like her decision, I am not pro abortion but I still believe that people should have the freedom to choose.
11. 3/31/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  Offended--
  You have expressed my exact position.
  100% agree with you.
12. 3/31/08
  
  Xight
  
  I'm sorry to hear that Mike.
  
  My gf at the time decided to keep hers, and up until she got pregnant I think she was prolife. She changed her mind after having some experience/hardhsips we both faced. She's pro choice now, and gets really aggravated when people who've never had kids wave the prolife topic in front of her.
  
  As for me, it was her choice one what she wanted to do as I was going to support her choice either way.
13. 3/31/08
  
  Anok
  
  I like Stoneman's answer best. Yup, I agree.
3/31/08

timethief

Pro-choice and sick and tired of being asked.

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1. 4/01/08
  
  daniel23
  
  pro-wrestler.
2. 4/01/08
  
  daniel23
  
  propane.
3. 4/01/08
  
  daniel23
  
  protagonist.
3/31/08

riverstyxxx

Everybody is pro-life, it's for or against abortion that matters.

IMHO: Against abortion, 100%

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3/31/08

timethief

@robertsteveson
"Touchy topic but an important one especially during election time."

We are not having an election in Canada. And, given the fact that many of us BC members are not Americans, what relevance does the opinions of those, who are not voting in your election but are being polled here at BC have with respect to your blogging?

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1. 3/31/08
  
  offendedblogger
  
  That must get a bit annoying. I think a lot of people forget that we're not all living in America when they start threads here. Isn't that a major complaint people have about us?
  
  By the way, where is Canada anyway?
  
  Isn't it near Brazil? *snickers*
2. 3/31/08
  
  robertstevenson
  
  My bad. . .
  I didn't mean to be the ugly american. Just wasn't thinking. I value everyone's opinion equally, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
3/31/08

LGramlich

Pro-choice, always (although I don't go around shouting it from the rooftops or anything.)

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3/31/08

2sweetnsaxy

I am pro-life BUT I'm also pro-choice. It's my personal belief that abortion is wrong but that's my belief and not one I can force on someone else. I believe in educating someone to ensure that they are well informed. Nothing worse than someone making a choice and they don't really know what they're choosing. In the end, someone's decison and beliefs are their own. I know I wouldn't someone else trying to force me to do or not do something. I wouldn't want to do that to someone else.

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3/31/08

MarkPogue

Pro Choice in regards to pregnancy,
Pro Life in regards to unneeded wars, starvation, and pro stem cell research.

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3/31/08

jackpayne

Most of these people arguing relative merits of pro-life, pro-choice are similar to being all doped up like a bear in a zoo. Not really knowing which end is up, why have a decisive, this-is-it opinion at all?

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3/31/08

gerryPlanetEarth

I am 100 per cent pro-life...

An abortion is a traumatic experience that haunts a woman her entire life...Women who have experienced abortions need our compassion,kindness and support...not our judgements...

What is most unfortunate is the resources wasted debating this issue could be better used for providing pregnancy shelters etc. pro-active education programs and free condoms etc.

When children are taught sex education in school a woman who has suffered an abortion should speak to the young girls on the importance of birth control or abstinence...

Women should as the most basic of human rights have the legal right to a medically accredited safe private abortion...

I do not believe for a minute that any woman wants to have an abortion...

The danger of providing wide spread abortion access is Kervorkiansm and Monetization...

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4/01/08

timethief

@robertstevenson
Although I stopped posting to this thread when I noticed that the Moderators have no hesitation when it came to re-ordering these posts to suit themselves, I saw that you had posted again and have only returned to say to you: "Thanks for the clarity." :-)

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1. 4/01/08
  
  robertstevenson
  
  Timethief,
  Hello. I'm confused by your response. I've only been blogging and participating in Discussions for about three weeks. I'm afraid I may have brokend a blogging ettiquette policy without knowing. What did you mean by "Moderators have no hesitation when it came to re-ordering these posts to suit themselves."? Isn't the person who started the thread the Moderator. If so, I sure didn't intend to reorder the post. To be honest I didn't know someone had the responsibility of being a moderator.
4/01/08

daniel23

pro-death! but seriously, I'm pro-life unless having a baby is going to really mess up a woman's life. abortion shouldn't be effing birth control.

jack-booted feminazi lesbians jumping up and down on expectant mother's bellies is not something I'm "for."

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4/01/08

kdawg68

I'm what I'd call 99% pro life. I tend to think if we're going to start picking and chosing who stays and who goes based on what we think the quality of their life experience might be like, that we'd be better off offing a great number of us that we already know definitively more about.

I'm willing to concede in the case of rape though.

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4/02/08

timethief

@robertstevenson
Hello again. I was not suggesting that you moved the posts around, Robert. :-) I did notice that some posts were moved and I assumed that only BC Moderators and/or staff had that ability. I gave you my answer above (pro-choice) and I'm not bent out of shape about the post moving. Happy blogging! :-)

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4/02/08

Sylvia

Mind your own business, thats what I think.

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4/02/08

timethief

You know what Sylvia, I just came onside with you.

@robertstevenson
I'm changing my answer to: Mind your own business!

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4/09/08

azureislands

A little late but for what it is worth I'm pro-choice! This is a personal issue that should be kept personal. When I was young, 20/30/40 I would never have considered abortion at 54 it would be an option one that I may or may not take...but it should be my choice.

We can get into all kinds of political/moral issues when talking about pro-choice but to me it comes down to a womans right to choose what happens to her body. What is right for some is wrong for others...every situation is different and should be considered on its own merits...for 99% of women abortion would be a difficult choice to make...but it should be their choice. H

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4/09/08

globalgirl

Babies in the womb and out of the womb are of value, beginning at the time of conception.

I am prolife all the way and proud to say it!

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