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Faith <\/a>writes:<\/p>\n What saddens me about abortion is that those who get pregnant and abort the child destroy every chance of happiness, love, excitement, growth, knowledge, friendship, etc. that child could ever have simply because it\u2019s inconvenience. It\u2019s more than a life, it\u2019s a lifetime of experiences and future husbands and wives and mothers and fathers and friends that you\u2019re aborting. ((The rest of Faith’s post, which I’m not quoting, sneered at people who have abortions for caring about their own “convenience.” Faith’s lack of empathy is appallingly common among pro-lifers.)) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n I know so many wonderful children who would never have been born if not for abortion.<\/p>\n Take a lovely young girl I know – let\u2019s call her Patty. Patty is bright and likes math and loves Steven Universe (but who doesn\u2019t?). Patty\u2019s mom had an abortion as a teenager, years before Patty was born. Because she had that abortion, her life went in certain directions – going to college, bouncing around like a young person, having free time for hobbies – that would have been different in uncountable ways if she had instead been a teenage parent.<\/p>\n But she did have an abortion. Her life went the way it went, and in her early 30s she met a great guy (through their shared hobby – a hobby that alternate-universe-teen-mom Patty would have had much less time for), married, and later on Patty was born. Patty would never have existed if Patty\u2019s mom hadn\u2019t gotten an abortion.<\/p>\n It\u2019s true that when someone has an abortion, the potential for that particular egg-and-sperm combo to become a wonderful person with an amazing life ends. But it\u2019s equally true that other potentially wonderful future people won\u2019t happen if someone chooses NOT to have an abortion. That\u2019s what making choices IS; some potential outcomes become canon – er, reality – while other potential outcomes never happen.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no logical reason to believe that the child Patty\u2019s mother aborted would have been more valuable, more important, or more wonderful than Patty herself is. This wouldn\u2019t be a better world if Patty\u2019s mother hadn\u2019t had the freedom to control her own reproductive timing – a freedom that led, eventually, to Patty being born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Faith writes: What saddens me about abortion is that those who get pregnant and abort the child destroy every chance of happiness, love, excitement, growth, knowledge, friendship, etc. that child could ever have simply because it\u2019s inconvenience. It\u2019s more than … Continue reading