>seperate issue I guess.
Well, no, it's not. Not if you are the mother.
I think it is ok to have an emotional reaction; it's an emotional issue. But you (and I, and everyone else arguing from emotion here) have to realize that emotion is not an argument. It may mean you are never going to change your mind, but perhaps you can just hear what other people are saying even if you do not change your mind. You're entitled to say you think the current definitions are wrong. Your opinion would carry more weight however if you had a plan B.
My own approach is also emotional and is to imagine myself pregnant with an unwanted child. A pregnancy is terribly intrusive even if it has no health consequences. I can, yes, imagine situations where I might say no, I just can't. And that is not something that should be second-guessed in my opinion. Yes, there is adoption, yes, there may be a father who wants the child. Still, that leaves the woman with pregnancy and childbirth.
Actually, odds are good that a healthy white baby would be quickly adopted. The tragedy of foster care is that it is so often used to second-guess the child-rearing of poor and ignorant women, and then it does the job so much worse. Still... a prospective mother still has to have a pregnancy and a chilbirth and neither is trivial.
>I loved seeing the bumper sticker that said "Yor momma was pro-choice
>dawlin!!" while in New Orleans.
>
Yes, and it's entirely possible that she paid some really savage prices for that, too.
Dana
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