Regarding the heartbeat factor of what “a” mentioned, I’d have to question memory. From my understanding, abortions are legal in the first trimester. However, similar to the proverbial tree in forest, what’s wrong with hurting/murdering a living thing, if it has no memory of it? Does the action itself warrant punishment/disapproval, or does it matter more the pain experienced by the victim? What if the victim has no memory? Can we prove fetuses and babies have memories? I mean beyond Freud’s theories of childhood scars and latency?

I’m not particularly for abortions, but I think these are legitimate questions that should be discussed openly, whatever your opinions might be.

BTW, thanks for commenting.

It’s my personal opinion that all too often the parents of today let their children run the show … even though a child can’t possibly know what is best for it at say, 3 years old. They just defer to them because that’s what little Sarah wants. And that’s not doing the parents – or the child – any services because then you’ve got parents that are run ragged and children with entitlement issues.

But Jany tells us of her feeling that by choosing abortion a mother is pressing her own own decision indefinitely upon her child. This therefore raises the question; when does a child get to choose? And I literally mean just that; I’d like to hear what everyone thinks should be the age where that child gets to decide.

Abortion is such a hard subject. I understand very much why someone might want/have an abortion so it is very difficult to judge another person’s decision. I would never have one because I can’t get over the fact that (to me) it is a growing child, this is especially drilled into my head now that I am a mother and got to see/hear my child’s heartbeat very early in pregnancy – before the time when most women have abortions. I also really don’t understand how someone who kills a pregnant mother can be charged with two counts of murder but yet abortion is okay? Either a fetus deserves protection or it doesn’t…how you can have it both ways?

It is such a complicated and very personal issue. :/

Well my dilemma with pro-choice is that the decision doesn’t only affect their body and their life. It affects the body and life of an unborn child… and I just don’t know how I feel about that. It’s not the parents’ decision to make, but you can’t ask the child… I just know I definitely agree the government shouldn’t have a say.

Also, this statement cannot ring more true to me – “On the other hand, teenagers of hyper-religious parents don’t automatically inherit their parents’ devotion.” Raises hand. I’d say, in my case, it actually did the opposite. I saw so much right wing hypocrisy that I ran the other way faster than Usain Bolt.