Comments on: Why Abortion Must Remain Legal

By: Things I Have Been Putting In My Head Today « What If

Things I Have Been Putting In My Head Today « What If — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:26:26 +0000

[...] stupid things because they don’t think they will die or be seriously harmed. It took two pregnancy scares for me to realize that I needed to be a lot more vigilant about my birth control or I would end up [...]

By: Ranting At Ghosts « What If

Ranting At Ghosts « What If — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:48:44 +0000

[...] dangerous. Come back and see me when you want to have children.” She wasn’t there when I thought I was pregnant and became an obstacle to a man’s plans rather than a human being. She wasn’t there when her parents gave me cards for Mother’s Day as if the presence of [...]

By: mindovermedicine

mindovermedicine — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:24:27 +0000

Someone one said somewhere the following in a blog we both visited (me by accident & you by choice, I guess):

“….concern, however, is that this kind of focus on personal experience can sometime be used as a tactic to divert attention away from the core moral question of abortion, which is: at what point does an unborn life have rights? If one does not believe that life begins at conception, when does it begin?….”

I feel that your post above is a great testimony that in fact it is the moral brigade that hijacks focus away from personal experience as if abortion is some tremendous socio-political issue for the non-participants!

Why can’t the politicians and philosophers see that the pain of personal experience is far more important than rhetoric?

take care