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1. Rob

   10 months ago

   Ponderer, it's tragic that we live in a society where men have inflicted so much harm on women that abortion became the solution. But I wanted to address your point in regards to the ownership that you feel women have over the children in their womb. I think one of the ugliest legacies of our country was slavery. I think it's a stain that has been with us since the founding of this country and the legacy of which remains with us. We have no right to dominate another human being. This isn't something we need God or the Church to tell us, but can see this with basic reason....this freedom is written into our hearts and we know that every person has a right to freedom. In much the same way we had no right to slavery, women to not have the right to terminate life as they see fit. All life is unique and has it's own rights to life. You are correct, it's her womb, her body, but the baby is someone else that she has no right to make that call. And just because our government foolishly says you can does not make it right. This isn't about controlling someone more than it's honoring the distinct rights of the new person. I would encourage you to study the Catholic Church's teachings on life. It's really quite beautiful teaching and not what you might think it is.

2. To ponder a pondered thought

   10 months ago

   The sperm that fertilised the egg,the cause for the conception of the baby,did not belong to the woman as her uterus and ovaries do. The sperm is the product of a man. Where is the rights of the father in your generalised sense for your reasoning? it takes 2 to make one pregnant. The decision to abort is not the woman's alone,as it was not just her who became pregnant without a little help from her friend. Father,mother and the child are the victims of any abortion.,not just the woman.Consensual sex is what I am referring to not rape. Where is the justification for any abortion when sexual intercourse is consensual?

3. abiara

   10 months ago

   To The Ponderer:
   As you commented "The child is in HER womb, it is HER pregnancy, it is HER choice"; If it is so "HER's" and obviously HER personal and private decision, why put it on the internet for the whole world to see and comment? Both you and the 'young' Jane are just trying to justify your horrendous acts knowing you do not have any right to kill another human being, 6 weeks, 10 weeks or even 1 day. To top things, you judge those who are pro life??
   "girls don't have to wed their lives away to their baby-daddies because the neighbors might gossip" hmm.. so it's not disgraceful enough that 'girls' go philandering, switching men as they would mobiles, but getting pregnant outside marriage and having an abortion is brave now?? Sad.
   
   Pro lifers are trying to do a good thing here.. This is your baby they are trying to save whereas sadly you don't even regard YOUR baby as even living. " it was just not meant to be and I am at peace with that" Really? You are at peace? I'm presuming the child you aborted was of your step-father? I cannot and will not comment on the past experiences you suffered because that is truly not Christian, but that baby was meant to be conceived in your womb and probably meant to be born.
   
   "I think about the many wonderful things in store for a child that would have been born out of love and happiness, not out of fear and shame"
   Fear and shame on your part - not the baby's. This is your guilt/bitterness/hate justifying your act. If you provided love and happiness or else allowed someone else to in the way of an adoption, that baby would have never known "fear and shame".
   
   Life is God's gift of love. Death is God's right. You have no right to kill love. May your little love of God pray for you and bless you and love you with all the love you should have given it.
   
   Why drag Mother Mary into your nonsensical justification?? She is the perfect mother in every sense and we as sinners have no right to ridicule those Christians who look to her as their mother eternal.. many of them without their biological mothers, many adopted, many orphans, but with God's grace all ALIVE and all loved so much by all mankind's Savior Jesus.
   
   God bless you and show his abundant mercy on you ponderer.

4. The Ponderer

   10 months ago

   I'm not very religious but I respect those who are, whatever religions they choose to follow. I understand this articles point of view but I don't understand how you can conjure a logical debate about something when you are the medium of a religion that is supposed to believe in love, respect, and the moral high ground. You are actively attacking a young girl that is making a choice entirely her own.
   
   The child is in HER womb, it is HER pregnancy, it is HER choice.
   
   You can sit on your pedestals and think yourselves better because you believe a higher power will spite her someday but you just come across as sad to everyone else. I'm happy that things like this are mainstream because now girls don't have to wed their lives away to their baby-daddies because the neighbors might gossip. They can make a choice and whether they feel horrible about it afterwards or not is honestly up to them and that is wonderful, I think. It might not be what god wants or what Jesus wants or what whomever else wants but it's what she wants and she is a real person.
   
   I was raped by my step-father and I have had an abortion that saved my life. Medical complications would have, most likely, killed me. I am attending university, have a steady boyfriend, and while I sometimes ponder it I think about the many wonderful things in store for a child that would have been born out of love and happiness, not out of fear and shame. A child that will be born in a stable home with a mother who can afford to support it, married or not.
   
   Not that I would not have loved that child. But it was just not meant to be and I am at peace with that. I sincerely doubt this will make it to the comment board since I obviously haven't thrown in enough hail mary's but I would just like this to be read on this website by anybody who can perhaps understand that it is other peoples decision and the way you have attacked this girl is not at all human, let alone christian.

5. John A. Foti

   10 months ago

   To Jane Young: You Fool you not only brought death to an innocent human being,But
   Death to yourself.

6. pb

   10 months ago

   of course her abortion was just red and frothy! The tissues were still soft at 6 weeks gestation, and were like an egg that had been scrambled after being vacuumed out. But that was still her baby! Pity she didn't value her baby, pray that she will have a turnaround and begin to value life and can use this to teach.

7. David Larsen

   10 months ago

   Our Holy Mother,Mother Of God,Mary most Holy,The Mother of our Holy Church,is the Monstrance,a chosen vessel,that conceived through the power of the Holy Spirit,for the Glory of God, our Dear and Holy Lord Jesus Christ,our most Holy Host. Life is a gift from God. Women are meant to be Holy as they are the bearers of a human life. Women are meant to be respected and cherished because of their maternity and motherhood. That is a right of a woman but that same woman must know the value of her sexual nature. She respects herself and commands the respect of men,when she is aware of and respects her own maternity. Men must respect her virginity until the time she would wish to have a child in a Holy Marriage. Men are Fathers of Children and are vital to the Mothers of their children to assist in paternity. A woman's choice is for that of a man to love her and to assist her in the raising of a family. This is my sense of a Holy vision that would make the thought of any abortion a very poor choice. Sexuality is a gift from God,as is every conceived human being,as they are never a curse,or some sort of a mistake. I can not knowing all this,compromise my instinct for knowing what I have written here is correct. Respecting every human life is also the same as self respect,no respect for life is a lack of ones own self respect. Even our country has lost self respect and the so called right to an abortion is one of the main reasons. Abortion is the quitters way out as well as the way one experiencing one of lives most tragic losses,a baby. There are heroes in all of this? I think not and would advise lovingly any one considering an abortion,to think it over than conclude that it is the unthinkable choice. AMEN!

8. Suzette

   10 months ago

   I'll post this here in case she deletes this off her site where i commented.
   
   Dear Jane,
   
   I wonder how you will feel about this abortion in 20 years. It might surprise you to realize that your opinions just like your tastes and styles might not be exactly the same. You may suffer health complications, and even worse regret and second guessing your decision. I know you say you will be exactly the same and think the same in 20 years but I can tell you that people grow and change and it isn’t always so. I’m glad that you survived your procedure – all medical procedures can be risky.
   
   I think that young women who are pregnant are often not given a true choice as to whether to keep or not keep their baby. I’ve seen the way young women are handled at Planned Parenthood and I can tell you that Abortion was/is pushed and nothing else was/is offered, there were no pro-life protesters, no counseling, essentially no choice but Abortion.
   
   I’m glad there are pro-life protesters that actually offer a devils advocate point of view it’s just unfortunate they aren’t able to be everywhere.
   
   Comment by Suzette on July 10, 2012 at 8:09 am

9. Suzette

   10 months ago

   Stefanie,
   Don't get an abortion, if you can't take care of your child adoption is always an answer.
   
   Julie,
   Why are you so against and scared about childbirth?
   Abortions are scary, dangerous, (google - people die all the time during them) and the psychological and health risks afterwards are very real.
   

10. DLL

    10 months ago

    THE DEGREE TO WHICH ONE EMBRACES AND DEMONSTRATES THEIR PURE IGNORANCE,WITH PRIDE,ON THE MATTERS REGARDING ANY RESPECT FOR LIFE IS TRULY ASTOUNDING.

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