Does anyone read the articles or are we just responding to the thread title?
Hi,
I read both articles before I responded to your thread. Why are you asking? Maybe it is for this reason:
Once upon a time in my life, before God was known by me in any substatial way, a Catholic man and I had a discussion. He called abortion murder. That really upset me. He had lots of children so I let him off the hook verbally, otherwise I would have gone after him.
I was very much opposed to the whole idea of life, despite quality, and life despite justice, and life despite health, and really life in this world the way it is. Eventually I had a daughter in the worst circumstances, and when it came time to have another child, (I wanted three), I refused.
OhMyFeelings. I thought I had just refused life to a boy. I have felt horrible about that for almost ever. Sure my spouse turned out to be a Psychopath really. Sure I was severely verbally abused from morning till night. Sure my spouse took all of my money while earning nothing. Sure my spouse would have used that child to extract more money and more time out of me. However, it felt very much like an abortion. I have always missed the son, that did not come into this world because of my decision.
My daughter and life, helped her get what she needed for her. She was born with severe migraine headaches. She is uncoordinated. She is sickly for the reasons they say of being brought up in a high stress environment, from birth onwards. I grieve.
Yet, with all that is wrong, one day as I was getting closer and closer to God, my whole family life is being improved also. She had a dream about a man. It came true. She is married to that man now. Her only talents were academic. She graduated Summa Cum Laude in Psychology. It took her long. She had to recover from the same abuse I was taking for all those years. I grieve.
Yet, she called me last night after I called her and she didn't pick up the phone.The talk was amazing. All people who know her think she is amazing. She is me in some ways and I am my mom in some ways, and both my daughter and my mom are wondeful, but for both of them, it took extremely hard life situations to make them wonderful.
I will not speak of me here. I don't even really know me that well.
Now, anyone I know of in life who is brought up in horror of one sort or another turns out wondeful, should they decide not to blame others.
The world will never get better it seems, and to try and make it better by abortion will also not help, as nothing in this world helps to get rid of all that is wrong. Yet, even with that I can see the abortion issue logic and reasoning clearly. It seeks to improve. It seeks to make the world a better place.
The only problem with that is, evey woman and even me for merely refusing to procreate one day, hurts. If all the women are right about this, then life as we know it starts before conception. And, what in our hearts we hurt for is that person that was not allowed to be loved, by you, or me, or her.
LOVE,
...Katie., .... .