keiths31 wrote:
What you said has no bearing on what I said. I wasn't married when my children were born. But that didn't stop me from wanting them. I was married to my first wife when she had an abortion without consulting me. By law she didn't have to. Morally she should have.
If you wanted kids, why was your partner on birth control?
I've never lived in this kind of society. You watch too many old TV shows I am thinking...
That was my point. That society basically hasn't existed since Victorian times, but people who fully oppose abortion apparently like to pretend that that's the society we live in, as if it's ever that simple. Reality is much more complicated. People
do have sex before they're ready to have a child, and even when they do it carefully, unplanned pregnancies can happen. We can either stick to ancient rules or come up with a set of rules that makes more sense with respect to what we have today.
PLAYER wrote:
The basic problem with cases like yours is that I know far too many people who think they know their feelings, until... . OR, for whom its relatively simple for the man, but not for the woman. At the point you are already sleeping with someone its almost too late to really think clearly about all this. That, too, is why we need sex education. Even though school sex ed is not about morals, per se, it can and should be tied in with corallary moral discussions at home, in churches, etc.
On the contrary, I have no idea how I would feel in that actual situation. That's why I want to make the decision
now, so that my decision isn't clouded by emotions which may or may not have any bearing on a good decision after the pregnancy happens.
