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Speaker: Abortion: morality and health, in reply to TracyMac,
Tracy, thanks so much for sharing your experience. Because of the stigma, so few women talk openly about their abortion experiences. And I think this is why conversations about the subject get so theoretical. Somewhat comparable to LGBTIA closeting. If people realised that half the women they know have had abortions, the conversation would change.
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I don't know if cute publicity stunts work against flagrant corruption though. I'm freakin scared.
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Envirologue: Swamp Monsters – the…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
http://www.listofmicronations.com/lomwiki/index.php/Independent_State_of_Aramoana
They raised huge sums of money selling stamps and issuing passports. Had a ‘traveling embassy’ (a sign painted caravan) that toured the nation raising awareness, oppositional support and fighting funds.
I have an Aramoana passport! Somewhere. Brilliant campaign.
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I have never had an abortion, but I've been the "buddy" twice. If you could have seen the sadness and the awfulness of the position my friends found themselves in, and the awfulness of the process. Nobody has an abortion for fun.
But women must not be forced to bear children, that is my fervent belief.
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Speaker: Abortion: morality and health, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Early abortions *are* just a matter of taking a pill.
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For heaven's sake Ben, you utterly missed my point which was about the difference between something's that is human and something with the status of personhood.
A dead body is human. Is it a person? No. Your left kidney is human. Is it a person? No. Artificially inseminated eggs are human. Are they people? No.
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Without wanting to derail the thread, it’d be nice if anti-abortionists put some effort into helping people who *are* born. With the huge increase of poverty in NZ, so many live human people are suffering. And I would have thought that'd be a moral issue.
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Speaker: Abortion: morality and health, in reply to BenWilson,
Great comment, and welcome to PAS if no one else already did it.
+1
And thanks Joe for sharing that story. -
It's perfectly possible to not be comfortable with having an abortion yourself, but still support the right of every woman to make that choice for herself.
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Oh very nice Jonathan! Don't know how I missed this post.