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Originally Posted by AGDee
My view is greatly slanted because of working on adolescent psych units for 13 years.
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exactly! i worked with kids in state's custody for about five years and my views are forever slanted now. i think morals and lofty ideals work out fine for most people until they end up in situations like the ones you described. life isn't as black and white as people want to make it out to be.
even in my own recent pregnancy and birth of my son, i found myself in a weird gray area. i was RELIGIOUS about taking my birth control and using alternate methods during the "off week". so who has two thumbs and was part of the 1% who got pregnant on birth control? this girl!
i'm pro-choice politically (i'm the only one who should be making decisions about my vagina and uterus and i feel the same about everybody else's reproductive organs as well), but i don't personally believe in abortion (i guess i'll blame my catholic upbringing).
now here i was, a recently divorced, third year ph.d. student, living in a one bedroom apartment with my bf, getting by on the pittance that the university pays me as a grad student and whatever adjunct positions i can pick up each semester. really not the ideal for having a child. however, with family help we were able to pull it off and we're doing as well as we can in this economy and our situation.
can i sit here and pretend that abortion was
never a thought? hell no. of course it went through my mind. i'm glad i made the decision that i made, but i feel like i had (and still do) a lot of support. not every person has that. i won't judge other people's lives that i don't live on daily basis. that's just ignorant.
so i guess i consider myself pro-choice. i
chose to have my child.
- m