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

[fpb]

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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[wudjuwait.livejournal.com]

'I do not wish to say anything more.'
well that is entirely up to you, i suppose, but perhaps it's worth considering that you appear to want to avoid that women/families might face mental (and economic) difficulties or dangerous pregnancies on the basis of angst about your own childhood and further justifications, regardless of the fitness of the unborn child/parents. one also wonders if children born into such parental relations might turn out to be dysfunctional adults, seems fairly likely doesn't it?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I do not think you even realize that you are being vile. You are not only inventing motives for me that sooth your wreckage of a conscience, you are deliberately designing them in as vile a form of verbiage as you can. For your information, the reason why I do not want to say anything more about my birth and related matters is that I would have to speak of other people and things they said and did and did not do, and I do not want to hold the words and actions of those people up for people like you to contemplate. The repulsive romance you wove around a few words I said only reveals your baseness. Do not come back. If I see another post by you, I will delete it without reading and ban you.