[HPFGU-OTChatter] I voted!!! was Re: Obama and daughter HP fans

[Cabal]

First, statistically most abortions are not to teenage mothers, so to
suggest your child was dumped by a teenage mother is just off base. Sorry,
but it's true. Most teenage mothers have parents that are involved either in
the abortion or adoption.

Second, "unwanted" refers to the pregnancy, not a child. Those of us on the
pro-choice side do not "unwant" any child, we simply want to make sure that
we don't have back-ally abortions anymore, we don't want children who have
been victims of incest to give birth to a product of that unnatural
intercourse, nor do we want women to be raped to have to give birth to a
lifelong reminded of that horrific act. 

Personally I don't like them and when a member of my family had one it
really hurt to know it, especially the day it happened, but I still support
her right to do it.

md

-----Original Message-----
From: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
[mailto:HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Kai Wen Lee
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 4:29 AM
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] I voted!!! was Re: Obama and daughter HP fans

Kemper now:
What is a few hundred dollars compared to the thousands or hundreds of
thousands of tax dollars that could be spent on an unwanted child.

CJ now:
I was going to bow out of this as I'm not sure an abortion debate is good
for OT-Chatter. But ye pushed me butt'n, Kemper.

I have two questions:

1. What the hell is an "unwanted child"? 

2. When and how did "unwanted" become code for "unloved"? 

3. Where's the evidence linking unplanned children to higher rates of child
abuse or lower quality of life?

4. Not being omniscient beings, what the hell makes us think we're qualified
either to predict any child's future or (assuming statistical evidence for
#3 exists (it doesn't)) to judge what "quality of life" is sufficient to
guarantee a child the right to live? And are we willing to apply those same
standards to "wanted" children?

My apologies for my harsh tone but as the adoptive father of a girl who was
abandoned at birth on an anonymous doorstep (likely by an unwed teenage
mother), there's no quicker wage to engage my ire than to suggest my
daughter was somehow prime fodder for an abortion mill.

--CJ (who already regrets not waited 24 hours to cool down before posting
this)

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