Stories like this happen every day across this country:
“I will tell this here, although it will probably be buried. I wanted children, so much so that my husband and I did fertility treatments to get pregnant. We were as careful as we could be and still be successful. And we were successful, too successful actually. I got pregnant with triplets and we were devastated. We did research and ran the numbers, factored in my health and no matter how we looked at it, it just looked like too much of a risk for all of us. We decided to have a selective reduction, which is basically an abortion where they take the one that looks the unhealthiest and leave the remainder, leaving me with twins. Because of the positioning of my uterus, I was forced to wait until 14 weeks to get the reduction even though we saw them before the 6 week mark.
Having decided that we had to sacrifice one to save two, we knew that we would probably never know if we had made the right decision. And then we found out that we did make the right choice. I was put on hospital bed rest at 23 weeks with just a 7-15 percent survival rate per baby. My body was just not equipped to handle two babies, much less three. I managed to stay in the hospital until 28 weeks before I delivered them. They came home on Monday after staying in the NICU for 52 days. We still have a month before we even reach my due date.
This was twins... I would have not made it even that far with triplets. I undoubtedly made the right decision even though I will always wonder about the baby that I didn’t have. If abortion were illegal, I would have lost all of three of them and possibly could have died as I began to develop preeclampsia which can be fatal for the mother.
I have always been pro choice even though I never would have an abortion myself, but then I needed one. Not wanted one... needed one. I am so glad that I was able to get one because I wouldn’t have my two beautiful healthy babies otherwise.”
This argument is fine from our pro-choice perspective. However pro-lifers see abortion as murder. It's like asking them, Don't like murders? Just ignore them.
And I don't know how the foster care system comes into play unless we're talking broadly about the GOP's refusal to fully fund public services. Overall I don't think being pro-life means not caring about foster care.
SuperSonic6 on May 18th, 2019 at 16:40 UTC »
Stories like this happen every day across this country:
“I will tell this here, although it will probably be buried. I wanted children, so much so that my husband and I did fertility treatments to get pregnant. We were as careful as we could be and still be successful. And we were successful, too successful actually. I got pregnant with triplets and we were devastated. We did research and ran the numbers, factored in my health and no matter how we looked at it, it just looked like too much of a risk for all of us. We decided to have a selective reduction, which is basically an abortion where they take the one that looks the unhealthiest and leave the remainder, leaving me with twins. Because of the positioning of my uterus, I was forced to wait until 14 weeks to get the reduction even though we saw them before the 6 week mark.
Having decided that we had to sacrifice one to save two, we knew that we would probably never know if we had made the right decision. And then we found out that we did make the right choice. I was put on hospital bed rest at 23 weeks with just a 7-15 percent survival rate per baby. My body was just not equipped to handle two babies, much less three. I managed to stay in the hospital until 28 weeks before I delivered them. They came home on Monday after staying in the NICU for 52 days. We still have a month before we even reach my due date.
This was twins... I would have not made it even that far with triplets. I undoubtedly made the right decision even though I will always wonder about the baby that I didn’t have. If abortion were illegal, I would have lost all of three of them and possibly could have died as I began to develop preeclampsia which can be fatal for the mother.
I have always been pro choice even though I never would have an abortion myself, but then I needed one. Not wanted one... needed one. I am so glad that I was able to get one because I wouldn’t have my two beautiful healthy babies otherwise.”
---0__0--- on May 18th, 2019 at 17:19 UTC »
This argument is fine from our pro-choice perspective. However pro-lifers see abortion as murder. It's like asking them, Don't like murders? Just ignore them.
And I don't know how the foster care system comes into play unless we're talking broadly about the GOP's refusal to fully fund public services. Overall I don't think being pro-life means not caring about foster care.
Banana_Assault_ on May 18th, 2019 at 17:40 UTC »
Is there a weaker argument than saying an issue "shouldn't be up for debate"?