So, here's my unwanted opinion...

On abortion no less. If this is a touchy topic for you, please scroll past. I understand people have their reasons, and I do not discriminate against those who have chosen to have an abortion. However, part of me is also left wondering, what is so wrong with our society? Our healthcare system provides free, safe, abortions to basically anyone who asks. I fully understand that there are circumstances where this route is perhaps the best for the mother and child. However, I really have a hard time with is how some people choose this option because they were not using a form of contraception, or they had been, and it failed, ending inunintentional pregnancy. The same healthcare system that will provide abortions, also provides birth control of many forms, for very little or no cost (though I am well aware some can be rather expensive). I feel like abortions should be a last effort, not the first thing that comes to mind when people panic because they did not mean to become pregnant. Anyone who has intercourse of a certain age, has to know that if you have sex, you can become pregnant. It bothers me how many thousands of dollars it costs a family who is more than ready to have children - but cannot due to infertility issues etc - to adopt a child out of the system. When people don't even think twice about going for an abortion, because after all, it "wasn't really a human being", and "they couldn't afford a child right now anyways" On that note. People who claim that a collection of growing cells is "not yet a person" are not entirely wrong, but they're not right either. If a chicken has a clutch of eggs, and they are fertilized, those eggs are "baby chicken's" But if a human carries a fertilized egg, it's not a human until it has a heartbeat? To me this does not make much sense at all. Those growing cells will become a human if allowed.. Why is it that our society runs in this fashion? I am well aware of overpopulation problems. But who is going to help bring new ideas and new solutions to the table to help us with our global crisis? Believe it or not, the answer is people.

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Most people...

May 27, 2018 at 10:54am

.. are psychopaths who are classically conditioned to have pseudomorality, that is, they all read the same magazines or have the same upbringing, so they think "it's wrong to discriminate" or whatever they think. That's also why they just change with whatever is fashionable, because they have no deeply-rooted moral compass, all they have is fashion.

They're like clothing with no body inside.

The population problem is made up, especially in Canada.

It's all about psychopathy and the degeneration of the human moral faculty.

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What It Is

May 27, 2018 at 11:42am

I’ve known many people (myself included) who’ve have abortions and one thing I’ve never heard any of us say is it wasn’t a big deal.

That doesn’t mean you give birth when you’re not ready to, but abortion is a big deal (for most I think).

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Ya, you discriminate

May 27, 2018 at 1:41pm

You started your post saying that you don’t discriminate about women having abortion. Then you spent your entire post listing all the ways you disagree with abortion. And you dare dictate the circumstances when it should be acceptable? Doesn’t work that way. What I do with my body is not your business and will never be your business. Why is that so hard to comprehend?
And I really don’t get what your overpopulation statements are about?!? Are you worried that people will stop having babies? Because abortion. Hahahahahahahahahaha.

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@most people

May 27, 2018 at 2:23pm

So I’m assuming that you’re not including yourself in the psychopath category, but just the rest of us, right? Seeing as you’re the brilliant one with all the answers and all. Spoken like a true psychopath!

If it isn't your body

May 27, 2018 at 2:41pm

it isn't your business. Forced birth is not the answer, more sex education and access to contraception is. Also, accidents happen, so does sexual assault. Abortion is for those who don't wish to be pregnant. Adoption is for those who don't wish to be mothers. Clear now, dude?

Awful assumptions and real life

May 27, 2018 at 4:28pm

It's ridiculous to assume that hordes of women are out there having abortions casually. I'm sure it happens and there are issues, but it's a serious decision for most, and one that's not always full of regret. Some feel great relief that a pregnancy was terminated for many, many reasons. I have never in my life heard a woman talk that way, "oh well, it isn't human anyway."
It's also naive to assume that people who experience unwanted pregnancies are always irresponsible about birth control. It isn't fail safe and neither are humans. Think about the variables and use your imagination. There are hundreds, e.g., a woman who cannot take hormones for health reasons (the pill) is forced to rely on something that's statistically less effective and it fails. Maybe that someone cannot carry a child without significant risk. You just don't know.
(It amazes me how others think it's even acceptable to enquire about someone else's very personal body parts. You know, concerning themselves with the activity of someone else's internal organs! So invasive! )
As well, the argument about when life begins seems irrelevant if like myself, your primary value is the relief of suffering, vs. a philosophical debate about the nature of life.
Here and now, some one may need to do this to prevent a worse fate. If a woman chooses to adopt out, excellent, but she does not have an obligation to provide babies for other families.
In one misguided episode I know of in the past (and I've seen a few), a good friend lost his wife because in this case, the medical staff at this church hospital felt obliged to focus on saving the baby over the mother following an accident. Apparently she could have lived. Instead she died, and then the baby lost its life a few weeks later in any case, leaving behind a devastated husband and two motherless children. Say no more.

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Unfortunately...

May 27, 2018 at 4:54pm

...by providing much-needed health care for women who find themselves preggers, say after their diaphragm fails, we also enable the chroniclly irresponsible to use abortion as a form of birth control. As distasteful as the idea of women obtaining serial abortions is, I'd say it's alot better than forcing them to carry unwanted preganancies to term. Why should we force children to be raised by the ill-equipped? The streets of every large city are full of the offspring of reluctant parents.

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My perspective

May 27, 2018 at 10:35pm

I have had a very important women in my life explain to me that we were to have. A baby.
She wasn't ready to be a mama. And she immediately talked about terminating pregnancy. I think she did not want to have a baby with.me. yet.
Women say my body my choice, why do men not have a right at this point? I helped make a baby but I did not have a say in what she did.

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I have an adopted child

May 27, 2018 at 10:47pm

I have to agree with the blurb about the cost of adoption fees. I myself have an adopted child. It was expensive. Thousands of dollars expensive, and my child was born in B.C. It was well worth the expense. I am also in the midst of trying to adopt the younger sibling of my child. Their mother is unable to keep the children she has (she has more than 2).
She did not choose abortion, which enabled me to be a mother myself which I am grateful for. Fortunately I am a willing parent and not reluctant like herself.

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I have

May 28, 2018 at 7:58am

Had an abortion, and I don’t regret my decision at all, I was in a terrible relationship, I was young he was older and fucked up in many ways....thank God I did, my life would have been terrible...I wish my mom would have talked to me about birth control, it was never talked about, nothing was talked about, so sad
I felt alone and scared but looking back I have no regrets.

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