Anti-Abortion Advocate Uses Baby’s Picture To Emotionally Manipulate People, Gets Destroyed With Facts

I've read and heard plenty of stories of women who have had an abortion and can I just say one thing that stood out to me. All of them did it for the sake of the child. All of them thought it was best for the child. Sorry I just needed to get that of my chest. Thanks.

I would never get an abortion, but just because I wouldn't doesn't mean I have the right to take that away from someone else who does.

After having worked with abused and neglected children for nearly 30 years, I wish the pro lifers would put some of there work into caring for these children who are already on this earth and are suffering. Please, be a foster care or adoptive parent to an older child, work at the crisis centers for domestic violence, donate to food organizations, work in a shelter or a soup kitchen and see how many children are living in poverty and with hunger. Please, THESE are the children who need you!!! I had a miscarriage at 21 and was told that I couldn't carry a child, so my life has been about other people's children who are in need of love and kindness. I've had many, many "adopted" children in my life, and I am glad that this is the purpose that was chosen for me.

I was born in 1970 to an unwed mother. She was Catholic, so abortion was out of the question, and I am certain her mother made her keep me, as opposed to adoption. I wish I had been aborted, because the abuse I suffered by being unwanted was horrific. I am the reason my mother is a depressed alcoholic with no friends, according to her. It's certainly not my stepfather who isolated and drinks just as much. I am lucky now, at 48 to have a healthy marriage and two great kids, but the therapy it took to get here could buy a nice summer home. They still terrorize me. Constant put downs, threats, ignoring my children. They treat my sister, their child like the second coming. It's unbelievable.

My personal beliefs are based on facts and evidence that I have encountered in my life. Seventeen years ago, I had an emergency c-section, or what THEY were calling a "second trimester miscarriage" to remove my 24-weeker that had developed a terminal infection that, along with uncontrollable bleeding, was killing me. The only way to save my life was to remove my daughter. (I was married with a 15 month old to give you some background info.) I was, in actuality, just shy of 24 weeks but knew that 24 weeks was the threshold for viability. In other words, they weren't going to save my daughter's life unless I lied and said I was further along than I was. I had to do that because some bureaucracy decidevviability numbetnumber for viability while not taking into account medical advancements and a mother's downright stubbornness for her daughters survival.

I was adopted from russia. My dad died before I was born and my mom had a son who was sick. My mom didn't have the money to care for me. I'm "pro life" because I would much rather be alive living a good life than never born or raised to likely not make it into adulthood (I was very sick and had health issues as a kid). Everyone deserves a chance at life even if their parents cant or don't want to take care of them. Unless it's a medical emergency I see no good reason for abortion. Even in the so often talked about case of a woman who was raped. If I was raped I couldnt raise that kid knowing who its father was but they deserve a chance to have a good life and to be taken care of by someone who cares about them and loves them.

"Now, we know that facts and ‘putdowns’ are unlikely to change anyone’s minds on this most emotionally-driven of topics." - Hey now, considerately presented facts can and do change opinions! There's no need to feed into this whole "them" vs "us" fear that's causing hopelessness and violence around the world. In the vast majority of cases, "they" are NOT frothing idiots, just TALK to the people you disagree with.

I think you are all very perceptive. My mom and my dad both display many symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder. I am doing minimum contact for now, which is pretty close to no contact and working with a therapist, so things are very good at the moment. My husband and children are supportive. Minimum contact right now is answering calls on holidays, and keeping those calls to 10 minutes. Thank you all for your kind support.

I think I am really tired of reading "x person does something and GETS DESTROYED by the internet". Seriously, do you think everything is a game?

ever notice they always use white babies in these ads?

''before you were born i knew you...' jeremiah 1. Your eyes saw my unformed substance...psalm 139;15-16

It is not now, never was and never will be, about 'saving the babies' for pro-lifers. That's why they absolutely refuse to provide a) easy access to contraceptives and b) support for single mothers, in lieu of abortion rights. It could work that way but they don't want it to work. It will always, ALWAYS be about controlling women. End. Of. Story.

you're basically saying oh yea let's just kill people because we don't even care about whether or not the fetus is going to harm the mother, since abortions are murder. like. we are talking about lives here.

What's ironic enough is that the people who vehemently push for pro-life tend to be very religious, yet not 50 years ago, the Church used to HELP women get abortions. This whole "pro-life" thing is a very new thing in the Church, as recent as only 30 years ago, in fact.

The commenter LatuSensu makes a well compromised point.

Anti-choice bums love to howl "Adoption Not Abortion!" How butt-ignorant! First, that option works only for a healthy white baby. Second, many of the same politicians trying to restrict or even completely outlaw abortion are doing nothing to make adoption easier. Third, tens of thousands of children are languishing in foster "care." Don't scream "Adoption not abortion!" unless you are calling for making adoption easier - and ending discrimination on the part of adoption agencies, many of which live on the taxpayer's dime.

Wow...this post is ancient. I remember reblogging it years ago. Still very true though.

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I had an ectopic pregnancy. So it's not exactly what I would call an abortion but I still lost my child and if I did nothing to have my child removed from killing me I would be dead too. I still mourn the loss of my baby everyday. I still wish I could hold my child and tell him i love him but i can't. Abortion isn't something to be taken lightly or to use as birth control (a girl i know is on abortion 4 or 5 because she's a horrible sickening person) but rape victims that get pregnant or women who had a condemn break or birth control fail or like me had something happen to make the baby die or potentially kill the mom, i support them. The ones who think its a handy birth control should be charged for murder.

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Thanks, BP...another story to get both sides of a hot-button issue riled up...happy friggin' Monday. I wish you'd get back to the art, photography, and animals. I keep coming back every few days hoping to see some more uplifting stories, but unfortunately I'm more and more disappointed. Especially since you can tell which way BP leans by the way their write their headlines on certain stories.

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Why do we argue about a time when it's okay to extinguish life in the womb? Does it matter if they are considered medically alive? If your heart stops beating or if your brain activity stops the medical response may be to stop medical care, but it's never to actively harm. And that's for people who are dead/dying. The womb has a person who is living and growing and becoming more capable all the time, who is about to live an entire life ahead of them, as long as no one actively moves to remove them.