Quote:As someone whose wife had multiple miscarriages, I can tell you without hesitation that you don't have a clue what you're talking about. The mourning over a child lost to miscarriage is no different, especially when it happens several times to a couple. The only difference is that pain is suffered in private among those directly involved.

 

Agree. I think you may have overstepped a bit with the statement FBT replied to, Anch. Although this is only exemplifies why I think men should, for the most part, stay out of discussions on the topic of abortion unless it directly affects them. Hell, I think that way about most "issues" but this one especially seems to scream "Not my area of expertise."

 

Edit: To clarify, I don't know nor can I begin fathom the set of what I can only hope are dire circumstances that would cause a woman to seriously contemplate (much less go through with) an abortion. I think there is substantial misrepresentation on both sides. On the one hand, you have people envisioning women of questionable virtue skipping gleefully down to PP after every tryst for one which isn't true. On the other, you have people assuming every possible abortion is only in the direst of circumstances and that isn't true either.

 

On a somewhat related note, I wonder just how many "unwanted" children there are in the system currently. Additionally, how many of these unwanted children never make it out of the system and what kind of adults to these children grow up to become. I can't help but wonder how much different my life would have been if I had been born to a woman who wasn't equipped to raise me (or worse, who didn't want me) and/or if I were a product of the system. I dunno, but it seems like that life would really, really suck. Luckily, I didn't have any of those problems.

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