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Originally posted by MTSUGURL
I do think it is possible for people's opinions and beliefs to change, but only when confronted with hard evidence or when facing the situation themself, and possibly by seeing another close to them go through the situation.
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Maybe. My best friend in college (we're not friends any more but for other reasons) had three abortions. I went with her to the first one. Do you want to know the truth? I'm glad she did it. I was friends with her for years after that, and I never saw how she was traumatized by having an abortion. I think that it was the right choice for her, although I do find it more than just a little pathetic that she didn't learn from the first experience and did it not once but twice more.
Whether or not I'm a strong person isn't so much the issue. The issue is that I do not (now or ever) want children. Does that mean that I should never have sex? Seriously, that's just not an option. Like I mentioned before, I would be quite happy to be permanently sterilized if I could find a willing doctor and the money. Any health consequences that resulted from that would be more appealing to me than getting prengant, EVER. I think that with many women, the issue is WHEN to have kids and it's not the end of the world if that happened earlier rather than later, but that's not the case with me.
I think that prohibiting a woman from terminating an unwanted pregnancy IS forcing her to carry a child and give birth.