Are you glad your Mother was prolife?

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How would an abortion provider answer that Q?
just because a mother does not abort a child does not make her pro-life. There are plenty of women who wanted their children and/or maybe they are pro-choice for others but they personally would never choose to seek an abortion.
 
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My mother wasn't. She was pro-choice.

My mother was not politically-identified, etc. yet she gave birth to me under very extenuating circumstances. In the regard that she never considered aborting me or my brothers and sisters, she was pro-life.

Same with me. I would've never considered aborting any of my children either. In that regard i'm "pro-life", even if i did not "label" myself as "pro-life".
 
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So, based upon her whims, you may never have been.

Based on a LOT of things I may never have been. Hormone levels, ectopic pregnancy, waiting for marriage before having sex, a fall down the stairs, car crash.

We all beat the odds just by being here.
 
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So, based upon her whims, you may never have been.
Well, same applies she had to do something to end up with having the person. People do not just get concieved randomly.
 
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I am pro-life based on many factors including what the Bible says on the matter. That said, statements such as this topic's title needlessly trivialize what is a very difficult decision that some women have to make. They may or may not be pro-life when they have to make the decision - and they certainly might change their opinion after the procedure - and statements like this do not take into account the complicated thought pattern and life decisions that must be made.

We can be pro-life while also making better arguments on why to be pro-life than distilling it to a tag line.
 
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I am pro-life based on many factors including what the Bible says on the matter. That said, statements such as this topic's title needlessly trivialize what is a very difficult decision that some women have to make. They may or may not be pro-life when they have to make the decision - and they certainly might change their opinion after the procedure - and statements like this do not take into account the complicated thought pattern and life decisions that must be made.

We can be pro-life while also making better arguments on why to be pro-life than distilling it to a tag line.
thank you. I for example believe that EARLY term abortion within the first trimester should be a LEGAL option. However, I would never personally seek that option ( despite the fact that rape would be the only way for me to have to make it), nor would I encourage another woman to seek that option, but that does not mean that LEGALLY I do not feel that up to a certain point it should not be an option.
 
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I am pro-life based on many factors including what the Bible says on the matter. That said, statements such as this topic's title needlessly trivialize what is a very difficult decision that some women have to make. They may or may not be pro-life when they have to make the decision - and they certainly might change their opinion after the procedure - and statements like this do not take into account the complicated thought pattern and life decisions that must be made.

We can be pro-life while also making better arguments on why to be pro-life than distilling it to a tag line.

The title is a valid question.
 
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The title is a valid question.
Yes, it is, but is is also a slogan seen on stickers, protest signs, etc. It is not really meant as a question, I believe.
 
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So, based upon her whims, you may never have been.

"I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” ~ Usually attributed, probably incorrectly, to Mark Twain

If my mother had aborted me, I certainly would not have noticed.
 
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If I was the baby inside my aunts womb when she died, leaving behind 6 small children , motherless and l heartbroken (still ) ,I would have no doubts about asking God to leave off making me until another time .I would be an unkown as yet ,and no loss to anyone until I was born ,and made relationships .
That a God , who can create everything cannot recreate a baby in a womb at a better time and situation , is something I do not believe .
Then I think so many christians have life back to front . When christians become Christians there will be no need for abortions ,as love will rule in every domain .
If the' big antis' were kinder ,and less judgemental
there would be fewer as there are fewer in countries
which are kinder ,and have better health systems .
 
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My mother was, most assuredly- pro-choice. She had an abortion, at her physician's suggestion, prior to my conception. She had another, for personal reasons, when I was about 2.

Honestly, considering her personal circumstances, it would have been in her best interests to abort- me. It wouldn't have made any difference to me; I simply wouldn't exist. Don't assume we are all so attached to this life that we lament the concept of our non-existence.

Pro-choice is merely pro options and control. My own children will be well aware of my personal convictions in this regard.
 
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If I was the baby inside my aunts womb when she died, leaving behind 6 small children , motherless and l heartbroken (still ) ,I would have no doubts about asking God to leave off making me until another time .I would be an unkown as yet ,and no loss to anyone until I was born ,and made relationships .
That a God , who can create everything cannot recreate a baby in a womb at a better time and situation , is something I do not believe .
Then I think so many christians have life back to front . When christians become Christians there will be no need for abortions ,as love will rule in every domain .
If the' big antis' were kinder ,and less judgemental
there would be fewer as there are fewer in countries
which are kinder ,and have better health systems .
Well, but then again until a certain point if a mother dies there is nothing that can be done for the baby either in terms of saving him or her.
 
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Yes, it is, but is is also a slogan seen on stickers, protest signs, etc. It is not really meant as a question, I believe.

It is meant as a question, and a legitimate one.
 
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It is meant as a question, and a legitimate one.
I am unsure of that it may be both depending on who is posing it.
 
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So, based upon her whims, you may never have been.

This is making the personal, political. I've never been comfortable with that sort of puritanical logic.
 
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