After a friend printed a misguided defence of abortion (from her comments thread)

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Rephrase your premise as follows:
I don't agree with abortions... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with rape... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with burglary... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with assault... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with embezzlement... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with fraud... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with forced marriage... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.

etc., etc., etc.....

Excuse me, if something is wrong, why the Hell should it be safe and legal, only because "it's going to happen"? Crime is always "going to happen". That is the point of having laws. We do not have laws against something which, though wrong, is never going to happen (e.g. there is no law against stealing someone's soul). The point of having a law against it is to state that it is a disapproved and forbidden activity, and that, if you are caught (which, alas, will not always be the case), you will be punished. This trash about "it's going to happen anyway" is simply something that abortionists repeat ad nauseam, on the principle that if we hear a statement often enough we're going to take it for granted.

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Re: you're the product of a failed abortion then?

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You, Michael Reagan, a lot of other folks....

I've got a friend who WAS the product of rape. Her mother figured that murdering a child of her blood would not hurt the rapist, and this gal is now an AZ2 in the US Navy, with a loving adopted father and five half-siblings. Her mother has recovered very well from the rape, and is a very neat woman.

For that matter, there are a couple of folks touring right now who are failed abortions-- one very pretty lady has nerve damage because of the injection that was supposed to kill her.

Yeah, sigh me up to support murder and torture of small, innocent humans-- like we need more of that.

Re: you're the product of a failed abortion then?

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Your friend is the living instance of the answer I worked out a while back to the classic abortionist argument - the abused mentally ill twelve-year-old. My answer is: the past does not cease to exist. If you destroy the child, all you will take back from a rape or an act of abuse or incest is going to be the horror, and that horror will work through your life, bringing both pain and hardening, and very likely messing up your relationships - is it not the case that many people who have been abused as children tend to repeat their abusive patterns in their adult relationships? It is certainly something I have seen. On the other hand, if you keep the child, the first thing it will do when it is born is show you that it is not a "monster" (one expression I have heard is "she felt this monster growing in her womb") but a little helpless creature who loves you. You will have drawn something positive out of a horrible experience, and this may even help straighten out your relationship with other people.