I got an email back from her. Tl;dr version: Nope, that’s definitely not how she was thinking about it. (Perhaps noteworthy: She rarely communicates via email, so she’s out of her element here. It is possible to evoke saner discussion from her in realtime.)
As far as the comment from the blogger on that website, it sounds to me that they have a very bland argument. First, most women who are against abortion have had abortions and know the harm caused to the child, but also the harm that happens to them. Second, there are plenty of pro-life women who have had “unplanned” pregnancies and continue to have the child. Can you imagine the conversation with your child that goes like this-, “You are so lucky! You came when I wanted you! I chose not to abort you! Isn’t that GREAT!?” I can’t even imagine saying that to someone. We are against abortion because it is intrinsically wrong to take the life of an unborn baby. There have been many people that lived through botched up abortions and couldn’t understand why no one wanted them. They are unwanted because they are, unplanned, or they are “messed up”(which is inaccurate most times). Can you imagine growing up being “lucky”?
this blogger also implies that we as humans have no self control. It implies that we have no way to make the right decision. Anyone who is pro-life, never becomes pro-choice. It is always the other way around. Our motivation to being pro-life is that there is an innocent life at stake. Well, there are two innocent lives at stake. The mother is also at risk. People forget about that part. The information given to women who get abortions is not complete. If a woman has a miscarriage, and has to have the remains removed from her body, they go to the hospital, they are put to sleep, and a trained OBGYN or doctor is used to perform a Dilation and Cutterage or D&C. This is a one day procedure and normal hospital cost for this is about 20,000 dollars. So tell me why a procedure at an abortion mill can cost between 400-900 dollars and normally the girls are not put to sleep. One of the worst things is hemorrhaging after the procedure. In a hospital, if you leave and you pass out right outside the door (or anywhere) because of that, the hospital will take you back in, the abortion mill won’t even call an ambulance. There are tons of other things that can happen that the abortion mill will not take responsibility for. Putting that aside, the topic also takes away from the fact that the whole reason we are pro-life is for life. Thats it. Plain and simple. It is not about us, it is about innocent lives being lied to and lives being taken. I wish that people who are pro choice would explain what it is that they are choosing. The more we continue with the advances of technology, the more scientists are finding that human life is very much there when conception occurs. The pro choice people say that there is no life until a certain time. Technology is proving otherwise. My simple thing has always been, if there is no life, then what are they killing?
I got an email back from her. Tl;dr version: Nope, that’s definitely not how she was thinking about it. (Perhaps noteworthy: She rarely communicates via email, so she’s out of her element here. It is possible to evoke saner discussion from her in realtime.)