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Wiley
I can't tell you what your words mean to me....thank you so very much. I wasn't sure how they would be received and you just made them so very much worth writing. You are such a dear.
posted by
Krisles
on July 5, 2005 at 9:01 AM
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Krisles
I am really grateful to you for writing this post and sorting things out for me. Yup, for me.
Some issues I just shut up about now. As a younger man I had an opinion about everything under the sun. Life was simple, Black and white. God-Man-Wo-man!!
Now everything has changed. Religion doesn't answer everything anymore thank God. The Catholicism that screwed up my sex life, my first marriage and my mind no longer matters to me and I suspect to a lot of people.
I am proud of you for making your decision, personally it makes me happy to think of a baby living after conception, and I think that is just my natural love for living things.
The difference for me and my thinking now as an older man is, I thank God I was not made a woman having to face a decision of ending a life. I am even grateful for my first wife and her courage at having five children and making the tough decision that there would be no more.
I was so screwed up in my head in those days as an alcoholic Catholic, she had to make the right decisions.
But I do believe it is every woman's decision to make, not mine or the law.
posted by
WileyJohn
on July 4, 2005 at 8:05 PM
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Dylan_Valente
Thank you very much! It's a hard issue to deal with and one, like many, easy to have an opinion about until faced with it personally. Thanks for reading.
posted by
Krisles
on July 4, 2005 at 3:57 PM
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Very interesting and carefully balanced opinion. A lot of people seem to be on one extreme or the other, but your argument disagrees with both extremes. Well-done.
posted by
Dyl_Pickle
on July 4, 2005 at 3:21 PM
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Passion
Why would an ISP out of Marble Falls have a local number in the Kansas City area.......I just can't sleep.
posted by
Krisles
on July 4, 2005 at 3:23 AM
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Kris, first off, how come you're still awake?
Second, you shouldn't be paying long distance. Just find a local access number. Doesn't anyone know this stuff? It isn't brain surgery.
posted by
Passionflower
on July 4, 2005 at 2:09 AM
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mmm_w
Thank you....your words mean a lot. My mother couldn't have any more children after me and wanted more very much...went through very painful medical procedures trying...they couldn 't adopt because they weren't of the same Protestant faith back then. She has always winced with pain at the mere mention of someone abandoning a baby or at tales of abortion. Plus, their best friends when I was young couldn't have children and I'm sure I heard discussions between all of them...I always had strong empathy for the plight of those who so badly wanted children and how they must feel when they hear how cavalier others are about the whole issue...I wanted more than one, but after I realized the mistake my marriage was I didn't try hard....it is a very hard issue for those of us who know in our heart what the truth of the matter is but want so much to be fair and reasonable....and who are realistic.....
posted by
Krisles
on July 4, 2005 at 1:11 AM
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this was a very beautiful piece.... i had a lot of feelings about them. the idea of abortion is a sensitive one for me because i can not have children. i always struggle with convictions... never certain how to feel...
but it was gracefully written, of course. i would imagine nothing less from you!
posted by
mmm-w
on July 3, 2005 at 10:51 PM
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Strat
Thank you, sir! I overheard some women in B&N going on and on about afraid they were that Supreme Court appointments were going to send us backwards and they were going to lose their "choice"..that's why I got to thinking about this particular subject...I got pretty sick of it and sure hate to think it's going to start up again but....
posted by
Krisles
on July 3, 2005 at 8:48 PM
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Good piece of work, there, Kris.
I think you hit on a very strong point -- having a choice in the beginning, and simply choosing foolishly.
I tend to stay away from abortion arguments because one, I'll never, ever, have to make that decision for myself, so how can I possibly have the arrogance to make the decision for someone else.
The other is that these arguments serve no other purpose than to tire me out. It has become a tiresome cauldron of rhetoric. Yours is one of the most refreshing pieces I've read on the whole thing in some time.
posted by
strat
on July 3, 2005 at 8:31 PM
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I've heard that alot of girls DO use abortion as a means of
Birth Control...They're just too f**king lazy to go to their OB/GYN and get on the pill. So instead they just run to the abortion clinic. This is SICK behaviour and shouldn't be tolerated.
I don't argue with people over this issue either. It's a waste of time. I do believe that ALL life is precious and it even bothers me to kill spiders.
posted by
Passionflower
on July 3, 2005 at 1:15 PM
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