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Originally Posted by Marguerite
So a living breathing human children should just live to demonstrate that the parent in question was too immature to use contraception?
"Why was I born mummy?"
"Well, little Jimmy, I just wanted to be reminded of how stupid I was for having unprotected sex! Sure, you've been a burden, but at least I took responsibility."
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There are other options. I'm not saying you have to keep the child. But having an abortion is taking the easy way out when you should have had the common sense to know that pregnancy is always a possibility.
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Originally Posted by WOW!USaidSomethingSmart!
That line of thinking, while something I think is a good guideline, fails in an abortion thread because of possibilities of pregnancy due to rape, having someone much older convince someone who is very immature and younger, and lastly, pregnancy due to failed condoms/other contraception. You're assuming all pregnancies are from willing mature couples in saying have sex only when both partners are mature and responsible, however, that's not the case in what really happens.
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That's not exactly what I mean. Rape isn't really "having sex" how I meant it in my guideline. It's not consensual. It's abuse. And obviously those exceptions apply. Perhaps I should have expanded my original statement to say this.
Failed condoms and contraception. Well sorry, but sex was designed, first and foremost, to make babies. You can take the precautions (and that's great) to prevent it from happening, but if you don't want to deal with the possibility of pregnancy, albeit very slight... well, I stand by my original statement.