I would say it is slightly different because it isn't just an emotional thing of "I wish I was never born" (how that phrase is normally used). The mother could have had a better life and a better life for her children if she had had the abortion. The is argument as well as emotional appeal in there. The point the emotional appeal (as she states) is to fight back against the emotion used by the anti-choice lot.
Gotta admit that I hadn´t read the article but merely the part that you had quoted (so I was mistaken about a couple of things).
Anyway, from my pov it is a counterproductive approach. Personally, I don´t consider appeals to emotions good arguments. Going about getting this point across by using this very method seems to be acknowledging it as valid rather than demonstrating it´s invalidity.
I'm not sure that is the point. Maybe it is, but I thought she said she was happy, but that she realises it would have been better if things had happened differently. She obviously had had alot of pain and wishes she didn't have to go through that, but I think that is different to wishing she was dead.
Ok, let´s assume this isn´t about her (and wishing for oneself to have been aborted yet exist would be a strange wish anyway, wouldn´t it?).
So from which/whose perspective (if not her own) is she speaking when saying "things would have been better with me being aborted"?
Her mother´s? Her family´s? All the persons´ she has met during her lifetime. The entire world´s? How exactly would she know?
In a world of polycausality (in which every event is the result of countless factors and has countless effects) there is no way to determine how things would have gone if one event would have been different, and even less if the outcome would have been better or worse. All we can say with safety is that the outcome would have been different.
Sort of true, but then the point is lost then.
Yes, but since I am somewhat trying to show that she has no point that wouldn´t be much of a problem for me.
She is saying that her mother could have purposely chosen to act differently. The things you bring up are more about chance than human choice.
Well, half of them did involve a "choice".
For my point that all things "could´ve/would´ve/should´ve" are futile considerations it is irrelevant whether the subject is a choice or a mere event.
People wish things had turned out differently alot though. She isn't just saying 'I wish I was dead' though. She is writing to make a point against anti-abortion stories. There can be a point to that.
Ok, help me, please. What do you think is this point?
I find it understand how someone can say they wish they didn't come into existence.
I find a lot of attitudes understandable, I can empathize with them etc. (and feelings aren´t subject to discussion, anyway) - but I´m not sure they are a good basis for making an argument.
I don't know if it is depressing, reasonable or humble to say the world would be better if someone in better circumstances should have been born, not you. Probably all three.
Not sure about the other two but I think it´s safe to say that it´s as unreasonable as it can get.