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Abortions

If Kirk Douglas's mother had opted for an abortion we would have missed his great performance as Spartacus. If Jonas Salk's mother had chosen to have an abortion we might still have the scourge of polio. Think of the wonderful people whom we will never know when the deadly prodedure is used. 

My mother, for example had two kids. If my only brother had been aborted I would have missed the wondrous teenage years with him before he was killed in the Battle of The Bulge in WW II. 

I think of Rimsky Korsakoff. We would never have heard the haunting 'Song of India'.

Monet and Manet painted floral magnificance. Henry Ford got us off the horse. Ronald Reagan lifted us up from the disillusionment of the Carter years. Ravel wouldn't have penned 'La mort de la princesse infantile' 'The Death of the Infant Princess'. James Cagney would have not have held us spellbound dancing and singing in Stars and Stripes Forever. We would have missed Liberace and Shirley Temple.

Remember the dance routines of Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, the voices of Dean Martin and Mario Lanza, the heroism of Audie Murphy and the wizardry of Walt Disney .

I regret that the mothers of Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Jack the Ripper, Gary Ridgeway, Charles Manson, Geoffrey Dahlmer and several others didn't choose to have an abortion. But how could anyone foresee such madness.

The debate rages as to when life begins. It's simple. I believe when a heart beats once it signals life.

For those who had abortions because of carelessness or promiscuous behavior do you ever wonder, worry, regret, cry long into the night. I would. Your fetus could have become another Margaret Mitchell or Mother Theresa.

lee kellogg

6:57 pm on Thursday, August 9, 2012

Disproved your own point. What if Jeff Davis had been aborted?

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Gail

8:45 am on Friday, August 10, 2012

The decision to have an abortion is a very personal and complicated choice. CHOICES, like everything in your life, have consequences. And like all decisions anyone makes in life, you live with the consequences and move on. You should not be concerned or judging about another persons choices or consequences, you should deal with your own life.

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JL

10:30 am on Friday, August 10, 2012

Then it is probably a good thing, that as a MAN you will NEVER be faced with making this very personal decision. And how lovely of YOU to decide who should have lived and died. Try thinking instead of all the children who ARE born to parents who don't want or abuse them. If you want to lament something, cry for the living, breathing children who have never been hugged, kissed or touched in a gentle manner. Sob for the child born to the drug addicted mother who will never know a normal life due to birth defects. Weep for the child whose only good meal of the day is the one they get at school because there are too many kids in their house for their parents to feed - despite working two jobs each. Grieve for the infant who was born into a world where some people STOP caring the minute they draw breath the minute they become just another statistic. And before you try to judge those women who have made this choice, get up, get out and help THESE kids. Once ALL of those problems are solved - and all the other cruelties and hardships are eliminated - only then should we have to endure yet another sermon about this subject.

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Pischer

12:28 am on Sunday, August 12, 2012

My mother was a big believer in choice, and she had 5 kids because she wanted them. I know of another woman who has 6 kids, all in foster care because she didn't want or care for any of them; forced births are setups for tragedy beyond your understanding. Unfortunately, mothering is a complex and demanding process that a uterus alone does not equip you for. Unwanted children, much more often than wanted children, become handicapped or severely disadvantaged adults. Unwanted children are more often neglected, abused, or otherwise mistreated, and you can say all you want about "overcoming adversity", you have to have something to build on to go anywhere in life...and if you don't get that foundation starting as a baby and going on for a number of solid years you ain't likely to get it. Before you start whining about adoption, just know some people who can't parent also can't bring themselves to give up their kids at birth; they have to try to raise them, at least. After they've proven they're really not adequate parents, it's a little late.

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LilZ

9:50 am on Monday, August 13, 2012

I find it hilarious when any man tries to weigh in on abortion. Why should YOU get to tell any woman what to do with her body? You completely contradicted your whole point when you said "I regret that the mothers of Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Jack the Ripper, Gary Ridgeway, Charles Manson, Geoffrey Dahlmer and several others didn't choose to have an abortion. But how could anyone foresee such madness." No one can foresee what ANY child will become, but a woman CAN foresee what her life will be like if she is forced to give birth to an unwanted child. Why would you force women to have children they don't want or can't afford? Do you really want even more kids in the DFCS system? Get down off your high horse, sir, and stop telling other people what they should do.

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