<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: Supreme Court Upholds Ban On Partial Birth Abortion</title>
	<atom:link href="http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:49:09 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator>
	<item>
		<title>By: Ann</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/comment-page-2/#comment-89483</link>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-bans-partial-birth-abortion/#comment-89483</guid>
		<description>A lot of liberals I know (I know plenty, I used to BE one!) really believe that partial birth abortion is an extremely rare procedure used only in cases where the baby will die shortly after birth or to save the mother&#039;s life.  Myself, I have done quite a bit of surfing and searching and have found testimony from actual abortionists who declare the exact opposite.  I was shocked to discover just how many of these abortions are elective and performed on a perfectly healthy baby.  I have tried to explain to a few of my friends just what partial birth abortion entails...and they stop me.  Perhaps this is part of the problem...once you know exactly what partial birth abortion is, how can you possibly support it?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A lot of liberals I know (I know plenty, I used to BE one!) really believe that partial birth abortion is an extremely rare procedure used only in cases where the baby will die shortly after birth or to save the mother&#8217;s life.  Myself, I have done quite a bit of surfing and searching and have found testimony from actual abortionists who declare the exact opposite.  I was shocked to discover just how many of these abortions are elective and performed on a perfectly healthy baby.  I have tried to explain to a few of my friends just what partial birth abortion entails&#8230;and they stop me.  Perhaps this is part of the problem&#8230;once you know exactly what partial birth abortion is, how can you possibly support it?</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: BIRDZILLA</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/comment-page-2/#comment-89424</link>
		<dc:creator>BIRDZILLA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-bans-partial-birth-abortion/#comment-89424</guid>
		<description>And as usual the liberals are whinning about it and doing this poppycock about coathangers and these are the same jerks who scream bloody murder when they want to drill in the ANWR because it will hurt the polar bears SCREW THE LIBERAL TREE HUGGERS GRANOLA MUNCHERS</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And as usual the liberals are whinning about it and doing this poppycock about coathangers and these are the same jerks who scream bloody murder when they want to drill in the ANWR because it will hurt the polar bears SCREW THE LIBERAL TREE HUGGERS GRANOLA MUNCHERS</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: redbeard</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/comment-page-2/#comment-89364</link>
		<dc:creator>redbeard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-bans-partial-birth-abortion/#comment-89364</guid>
		<description>Well, they can&#039;t be wrong about &lt;strong&gt;everything&lt;/strong&gt;.  ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, they can&#8217;t be wrong about <strong>everything</strong>.  <img src='http://lashawnbarber.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: JohnD</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/comment-page-2/#comment-89360</link>
		<dc:creator>JohnD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-bans-partial-birth-abortion/#comment-89360</guid>
		<description>&quot;As this degeneracy builds, I find myself hoping for that big asteroid to hit.&quot;

And I thought the uber-left homo-sap hating eco-warriors had the whole &#039;Roll on Armageddon Cuz Humans Don&#039;t Deserve To Live&#039; thing totally covered ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;As this degeneracy builds, I find myself hoping for that big asteroid to hit.&#8221;</p>
<p>And I thought the uber-left homo-sap hating eco-warriors had the whole &#8216;Roll on Armageddon Cuz Humans Don&#8217;t Deserve To Live&#8217; thing totally covered <img src='http://lashawnbarber.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: RedBeard</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/comment-page-2/#comment-89346</link>
		<dc:creator>RedBeard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-bans-partial-birth-abortion/#comment-89346</guid>
		<description>In name only, and when it suits their political ambitions.  Phony, disingenuous, pandering; it&#039;s a lot like Hillary and her fake southern accent that she recently adopted again.  [insert rolling eyes here]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In name only, and when it suits their political ambitions.  Phony, disingenuous, pandering; it&#8217;s a lot like Hillary and her fake southern accent that she recently adopted again.  [insert rolling eyes here]</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Tyrone</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/comment-page-2/#comment-89332</link>
		<dc:creator>Tyrone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-bans-partial-birth-abortion/#comment-89332</guid>
		<description>Barrack Obama, John Edwards, and Hillary Clinton &quot;claim&quot; they are all &quot;christians, yet I can&#039;t figure out why these &quot;so called&quot; christian would be against the supreme court upholding the partial birth abortion ban. Liberals are christians in name only it seems.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Barrack Obama, John Edwards, and Hillary Clinton &#8220;claim&#8221; they are all &#8220;christians, yet I can&#8217;t figure out why these &#8220;so called&#8221; christian would be against the supreme court upholding the partial birth abortion ban. Liberals are christians in name only it seems.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: redbeard</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/comment-page-2/#comment-89313</link>
		<dc:creator>redbeard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-bans-partial-birth-abortion/#comment-89313</guid>
		<description>I have a photo of my new grandson, one minute old, being held by the doctor.  It&#039;s a miraculous and wonderful thing to behold.  How can anyone look at that and then justify the killing of such a child just prior to birth?  Hillary, Obama, Edwards, care to try to explain your support of out-and-out barbarism and butchery?    

It&#039;s a sick world out there, and getting sicker.  As this degeneracy builds, I find myself hoping for that big asteroid to hit.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a photo of my new grandson, one minute old, being held by the doctor.  It&#8217;s a miraculous and wonderful thing to behold.  How can anyone look at that and then justify the killing of such a child just prior to birth?  Hillary, Obama, Edwards, care to try to explain your support of out-and-out barbarism and butchery?    </p>
<p>It&#8217;s a sick world out there, and getting sicker.  As this degeneracy builds, I find myself hoping for that big asteroid to hit.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: mamapajamas</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/comment-page-2/#comment-89233</link>
		<dc:creator>mamapajamas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-bans-partial-birth-abortion/#comment-89233</guid>
		<description>Z... the law the Supreme Court upheld most certainly DOES support the woman&#039;s right to life.

It allows PBAs for emergency situations where the mother&#039;s life is at risk, but ONLY those situations.  It does NOT allow for &quot;emotional&quot; issues, which the &quot;women&#039;s health&quot; issue is all about.  It&#039;s the wording that counts.  The &quot;women&#039;s health&quot; issue being pushed by feminists has long been expanded to include &quot;psychiatric health&quot;, which would allow a woman to get a PBA for any reason down to &quot;cold feet&quot; at the last minute before birth.

The law the Supreme Court just upheld allows only for &quot;physical danger&quot; to the mother, which is exactly how it SHOULD be worded to avoid the &quot;cold feet&quot; trap.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Z&#8230; the law the Supreme Court upheld most certainly DOES support the woman&#8217;s right to life.</p>
<p>It allows PBAs for emergency situations where the mother&#8217;s life is at risk, but ONLY those situations.  It does NOT allow for &#8220;emotional&#8221; issues, which the &#8220;women&#8217;s health&#8221; issue is all about.  It&#8217;s the wording that counts.  The &#8220;women&#8217;s health&#8221; issue being pushed by feminists has long been expanded to include &#8220;psychiatric health&#8221;, which would allow a woman to get a PBA for any reason down to &#8220;cold feet&#8221; at the last minute before birth.</p>
<p>The law the Supreme Court just upheld allows only for &#8220;physical danger&#8221; to the mother, which is exactly how it SHOULD be worded to avoid the &#8220;cold feet&#8221; trap.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Jim</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/comment-page-2/#comment-89228</link>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-bans-partial-birth-abortion/#comment-89228</guid>
		<description>You know that &quot;abortion as a form of birth control&quot; is ambiguous.  Do you mean &quot;abortion in lieu of birth control&quot; or &quot;abortion when birth control fails&quot;?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know that &#8220;abortion as a form of birth control&#8221; is ambiguous.  Do you mean &#8220;abortion in lieu of birth control&#8221; or &#8220;abortion when birth control fails&#8221;?</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Z</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/comment-page-2/#comment-89225</link>
		<dc:creator>Z</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-bans-partial-birth-abortion/#comment-89225</guid>
		<description>Redbeard

My problem with the supereme court ruling is that it doeesn&#039;t take into account medical emergencies at all. I feel like, with many anti-abortion people and what I sometimes see on this blog, is that they can&#039;t fathom a situation where an abortion might be warranted.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Redbeard</p>
<p>My problem with the supereme court ruling is that it doeesn&#8217;t take into account medical emergencies at all. I feel like, with many anti-abortion people and what I sometimes see on this blog, is that they can&#8217;t fathom a situation where an abortion might be warranted.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: dianne</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/comment-page-2/#comment-89224</link>
		<dc:creator>dianne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-bans-partial-birth-abortion/#comment-89224</guid>
		<description>I&#039;m going to admit something here. I accompanied for and paid for an abortion for my daughter..it was first trimester..it was a mixed race pregnancy.  I won&#039;t go into all the details but my husband (grandfather of the child) would have gone ballistic.  Well, God wasn&#039;t done with us!  Daughter got pregnant again with mixed race child from same father.  This was an abusive relationship.  The first time I was ok with abortion, the second time neither me nor my daughter could handle it.  She was born...I was bedside at the birth of my beautiful biracial granddaughter..she&#039;s 9 today...her father is not in the picture (another story).  I love my gdaughter with all my heart.  I can&#039;t imagine life without her.  

The first child, who was he/she?  I know I would have loved him/her the same.  We made a big mistake.  We have asked God for forgiveness over and over again.  

This abortion business has got to stop. It eats at our soul. It is cruel.  A partial birth abortion is beyond comprehension to me, but we have to think beyond that.  A woman&#039;s right to choose is a woman&#039;s right to kill.  God forgive us and help us all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m going to admit something here. I accompanied for and paid for an abortion for my daughter..it was first trimester..it was a mixed race pregnancy.  I won&#8217;t go into all the details but my husband (grandfather of the child) would have gone ballistic.  Well, God wasn&#8217;t done with us!  Daughter got pregnant again with mixed race child from same father.  This was an abusive relationship.  The first time I was ok with abortion, the second time neither me nor my daughter could handle it.  She was born&#8230;I was bedside at the birth of my beautiful biracial granddaughter..she&#8217;s 9 today&#8230;her father is not in the picture (another story).  I love my gdaughter with all my heart.  I can&#8217;t imagine life without her.  </p>
<p>The first child, who was he/she?  I know I would have loved him/her the same.  We made a big mistake.  We have asked God for forgiveness over and over again.  </p>
<p>This abortion business has got to stop. It eats at our soul. It is cruel.  A partial birth abortion is beyond comprehension to me, but we have to think beyond that.  A woman&#8217;s right to choose is a woman&#8217;s right to kill.  God forgive us and help us all.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: RedBeard</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/comment-page-2/#comment-89222</link>
		<dc:creator>RedBeard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-bans-partial-birth-abortion/#comment-89222</guid>
		<description>Z, the issue has never been about genuine theraputic abortions that might be required to save the life of the mother.  The issue, at its heart, is about callous use of abortion as a form of birth control, and specifically about the shocking butchery termed &quot;partial birth&quot; abortion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Z, the issue has never been about genuine theraputic abortions that might be required to save the life of the mother.  The issue, at its heart, is about callous use of abortion as a form of birth control, and specifically about the shocking butchery termed &#8220;partial birth&#8221; abortion.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Z</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/comment-page-2/#comment-89220</link>
		<dc:creator>Z</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-bans-partial-birth-abortion/#comment-89220</guid>
		<description>I have a question

I have a uterine defect that I did not know about until I got pregnant, and most women that half such a defect don&#039;t know until they get pregnant because there is no way to tell if its there until your doctor has a reason to ultrasound your uterus. So my baby was there, on one side.  I have essentially a uterus that is split in half and only one side can hold a baby at a time. In my case luckily both my halfs are even and my one side was able to stretch far enough for the baby grow enough to thrive without me going into premature labor, and she didn&#039;t have the growth restrictive deformaties that can occur with this defect.  However in many cases one side of the uterus is two small for the baby to grow to much of anything but maybe a 20 week old fetus if even that, and the growing baby explodes that part of the uterus, tearing it open, and falls into the adominal cavity causing immediate death to the baby and death and/or  total destruction of the mother&#039;s uterus. 

Now by the grace of God I didn&#039;t fall into that later category,but if I did should I not have been allowed to have an abortion? Or should I just have continued the pregnancy and wait for the trauma that was about to happen? If I had had twins I probably could not have continued the pregnancy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a question</p>
<p>I have a uterine defect that I did not know about until I got pregnant, and most women that half such a defect don&#8217;t know until they get pregnant because there is no way to tell if its there until your doctor has a reason to ultrasound your uterus. So my baby was there, on one side.  I have essentially a uterus that is split in half and only one side can hold a baby at a time. In my case luckily both my halfs are even and my one side was able to stretch far enough for the baby grow enough to thrive without me going into premature labor, and she didn&#8217;t have the growth restrictive deformaties that can occur with this defect.  However in many cases one side of the uterus is two small for the baby to grow to much of anything but maybe a 20 week old fetus if even that, and the growing baby explodes that part of the uterus, tearing it open, and falls into the adominal cavity causing immediate death to the baby and death and/or  total destruction of the mother&#8217;s uterus. </p>
<p>Now by the grace of God I didn&#8217;t fall into that later category,but if I did should I not have been allowed to have an abortion? Or should I just have continued the pregnancy and wait for the trauma that was about to happen? If I had had twins I probably could not have continued the pregnancy.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Mark La Roi</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/comment-page-2/#comment-89217</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark La Roi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-bans-partial-birth-abortion/#comment-89217</guid>
		<description>If it helps elucidate my point, the people in my life who helped me most were sympathetic to my plight and very loving toward me, but even while acknowledging the powerful influeces of the people around me they never, ever let me think that my actions weren&#039;t the result of the choices I made.

I love them all so much for teaching me that. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If it helps elucidate my point, the people in my life who helped me most were sympathetic to my plight and very loving toward me, but even while acknowledging the powerful influeces of the people around me they never, ever let me think that my actions weren&#8217;t the result of the choices I made.</p>
<p>I love them all so much for teaching me that. <img src='http://lashawnbarber.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Mark La Roi</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-partial-birth-abortion/comment-page-2/#comment-89216</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark La Roi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/04/18/supreme-court-bans-partial-birth-abortion/#comment-89216</guid>
		<description>&quot;Mark Le Roi, it doesnâ€™t always come down to â€œthe desires of the mother.â€ I get really annoyed when I read so many comments that convey that attitude. Some women ARE amoral, immoral, selfish to the extreme, and lacking in values, or just plain unaware â€” agreed. But not all. I think everyone here who finds it very easy to condemn and stereotype women seeking abortion needs to have a reality check.&quot;

~That&#039;s LA Roi actually. I&#039;m not forgetting about the abuse women can go through in this situation. My mother was abused by my father, and I suffered part of her ordeal as well. I&#039;ve made some terrible choices in life based on outside influences, including asking my then-girlfriend to have an abortion because I didn&#039;t want a child at the time. (This was before Christ saved me and I acknowledged the value of life. I had no pretensions at the time: it was me or the kid and since I was stronger, I &quot;won&quot;. I was a scuz.)

The thing is, I&#039;ve learned that most of life is choice, no matter what influences that choice. If a man slaps me in the face, I can slap him back, walk away, do a little jig to make him think I&#039;m nuts...anything. It&#039;s my choice. 

When my ex-boss asked me to sign my name to something illegal that was unlikely to ever come to light, I could have done it and moved on, but I didn&#039;t and spent some hungry days looking for a new job.

Every choice is made with consideration of the consequence, and as unloving as this may sound even the abused, confused, terrified person is making a choice based on consideration for the consequences. Even the mother with an ectopic pregnancy is making a choice for an abortion if she has one. Sure, it&#039;s easy to understand why she made that choice, but it&#039;s still a choice. In all likelihood she would die if she didn&#039;t make the choice, but as long as she isn&#039;t strapped down and assaulted to complete the procedure, it&#039;s still a choice. 

I&#039;m not in any way freeing the fathers of aborted children of their responsibility, because if they&#039;d kept their pants closed the situation wouldn&#039;t even exist. I just realize that the vast majority of women who have abortions aren&#039;t victims of abortion, they&#039;re sufferers of their bad decision. 

To this day I suffer from extremely thin blood vessels in my nose because of drug abuse, and I bleed a little every time I blow my nose. I could be angry with the person who immersed me in the lifestyle I led, and I do hold that person to a rightful degree of responsibility. At the same time, in order to past the memories of that life and really heal I had to recognize that I made the choice to take them. I made the choice to listen, no matter how powerful that person&#039;sinfluence was in my life, and that influence was nearly total. 

In &quot;Lean on Me&quot; Morgan Freeman&#039;s character uttered the memorable line &quot;I don&#039;t &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; to do nothin&#039; but stay Black and die.&quot; To a large degree that is true. Even with a gun pointed at your head your decision to obey or fight is still yours. 

Again, please understand that I&#039;m not saying throw these women out with the trash or that they are irrevocably evil, nor am I saying that they shouldn&#039;t have someone who knows what love is try and share with them how to know and preserve life. 

I&#039;m just saying that choice is still choice, right &lt;b&gt;or&lt;/b&gt; wrong, despite the outside influence.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Mark Le Roi, it doesnâ€™t always come down to â€œthe desires of the mother.â€ I get really annoyed when I read so many comments that convey that attitude. Some women ARE amoral, immoral, selfish to the extreme, and lacking in values, or just plain unaware â€” agreed. But not all. I think everyone here who finds it very easy to condemn and stereotype women seeking abortion needs to have a reality check.&#8221;</p>
<p>~That&#8217;s LA Roi actually. I&#8217;m not forgetting about the abuse women can go through in this situation. My mother was abused by my father, and I suffered part of her ordeal as well. I&#8217;ve made some terrible choices in life based on outside influences, including asking my then-girlfriend to have an abortion because I didn&#8217;t want a child at the time. (This was before Christ saved me and I acknowledged the value of life. I had no pretensions at the time: it was me or the kid and since I was stronger, I &#8220;won&#8221;. I was a scuz.)</p>
<p>The thing is, I&#8217;ve learned that most of life is choice, no matter what influences that choice. If a man slaps me in the face, I can slap him back, walk away, do a little jig to make him think I&#8217;m nuts&#8230;anything. It&#8217;s my choice. </p>
<p>When my ex-boss asked me to sign my name to something illegal that was unlikely to ever come to light, I could have done it and moved on, but I didn&#8217;t and spent some hungry days looking for a new job.</p>
<p>Every choice is made with consideration of the consequence, and as unloving as this may sound even the abused, confused, terrified person is making a choice based on consideration for the consequences. Even the mother with an ectopic pregnancy is making a choice for an abortion if she has one. Sure, it&#8217;s easy to understand why she made that choice, but it&#8217;s still a choice. In all likelihood she would die if she didn&#8217;t make the choice, but as long as she isn&#8217;t strapped down and assaulted to complete the procedure, it&#8217;s still a choice. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not in any way freeing the fathers of aborted children of their responsibility, because if they&#8217;d kept their pants closed the situation wouldn&#8217;t even exist. I just realize that the vast majority of women who have abortions aren&#8217;t victims of abortion, they&#8217;re sufferers of their bad decision. </p>
<p>To this day I suffer from extremely thin blood vessels in my nose because of drug abuse, and I bleed a little every time I blow my nose. I could be angry with the person who immersed me in the lifestyle I led, and I do hold that person to a rightful degree of responsibility. At the same time, in order to past the memories of that life and really heal I had to recognize that I made the choice to take them. I made the choice to listen, no matter how powerful that person&#8217;sinfluence was in my life, and that influence was nearly total. </p>
<p>In &#8220;Lean on Me&#8221; Morgan Freeman&#8217;s character uttered the memorable line &#8220;I don&#8217;t <i>have</i> to do nothin&#8217; but stay Black and die.&#8221; To a large degree that is true. Even with a gun pointed at your head your decision to obey or fight is still yours. </p>
<p>Again, please understand that I&#8217;m not saying throw these women out with the trash or that they are irrevocably evil, nor am I saying that they shouldn&#8217;t have someone who knows what love is try and share with them how to know and preserve life. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m just saying that choice is still choice, right <b>or</b> wrong, despite the outside influence.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>

