My Experience With Pro-Life

Are you for anything other than life? All of the anti's kind of freaked me out more than anything. It's good that you're a non-violent activist, standing up for what you genuinely care about. That's a swell quality.

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I am completely pro-life, it isn't a woman's body, but rather another human inside. This definitely deserves a rant, but I don't think GWB does(I like him.) One thing I am glad of is that you are not like many pro-lifers I've met who only blindly follow the idea that it is bad and do not think through why or those who bomb the clinics and try to overtake abortion by force rather than attempt to change legislation.

I've been Pro-Life for many years. Not your "typical" Pro-Lifer either.
I recently joined a program called "Stand True," an amazing organization dedicated to the anti-abortion movement. I admire their stance on abortion and would love to see their goals accomplished.

There have been quite a few references to the "Stand True" organization on ProU lately. So, I took the liberty of checking out their website. Unfortunately, I didn't find anything there that would lead me to believe that this group offeres anything different that the typical "pro-life" fare. There are links to inflammatory pictures, references to unscientific beliefs about pre-natal development, a systematic misuse of relevant terminology, and the same general air of dishonesty that seems to pervade the pro-life movement.

The moment a child becomes a life is at its CONCEPTION. Not it's "out of the vagina" stage. Roe vs. Wade is a load of bull.

You comment leads me to believe that you have never actually read the Roe decision. The decision in Roe isn't continegent on the question of when life begins, but rather the point at which the potential rights of a pre-born human begins to outweigh the rights of the mother. To quote the reasoning of the Court...

We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer...We repeat, however, that the State does have an important and legitimate interest in preserving and protecting the health of the pregnant woman, whether she be a resident of the State or a nonresident who seeks medical consultation and treatment there, and that it has still another important and legitimate interest in protecting the potentiality of human life. These interests are separate and distinct. Each grows in substantiality as the woman approaches term and, at a point during pregnancy, each becomes "compelling."

Probably my BIGGEST problem with the "pro-life" movement is the way that it relies on non-factual (and often intentionally so) arguments that attempt to supplant well-reasoned legal conclusions with religiously motivated emotional appeals. Rarely (bordering closely on never) does one encounter a "pro-lifer" who can accurately and intelligently argue against the actual reasoning behind the Roe decision. Personally, I view most (if not all) abortions to be truly tragic occurrences, and when I encounter women in my personal life that are considering such a decision, I do my best to empower them to make a choice other than having an abortion. But, the bottom line, legally, is that it is still their choice to make.

TTFN,
percivale

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If you allow for abortions in the case of rape, why don't you allow it in other instances? Especially since you require that rape be proven, which is extremely difficult in today's society (after all, only a small percentage of women report rape, and an even smaller percentage of rapes are prosecuted). It all amounts to murder, doesn't it?

How about if the woman's life is in danger, and how far do you take that stance? If a woman would commit suicide during her pregnancy because she is unstable, are you still going to make her carry the child to term?

I ask this all out of curiosity... not to flame.

~C
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I did a heavily researched paper on the Roe vs Wade case. I read numerous documents, not from other writers but from law sites as well. I understand and comprehend fully the detail that goes behind it. The ironic thing about it, was "Roe" is Pro-Life and helps Pro-Life organizations everywhere. Her intent with her case was NEVER to allow abortions to become a way of birth control.

Also, I'm for other things than pro-life. x_x Argh.

And in the spot where I said that I believe it is okay for a woman that has been provenly raped has the right to abort (however, I would still recommend greatly to go the adoption route), I meant just that. If you have enough guts to kill an unborn, then you should have enough balls to stand up in a court room and point out the man that raped you.
If you don't like my stance on that, stop talking about it. Your opinions on the whole "isn't that saying you're for killing kids?" doesn't work on me. You're misconstrueing what I'm saying and therefore can't get threw your mind that not all of us pro-lifers are crazy maniacs that bomb abortion clinics.

However, next January, I'm going on a Pro-life movement in Washington D.C, and let me tell you, I am so pumped.

Ohoh. Almost forgot. The Stand True webpage is amazing. You should probably read the monthly emails and monthly mail sent in before you decide to judge. [: