Posted: Dec 16, 2007, 11:24 AM CST
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There isn't a depends option, so I can't vote..
I would personally would not want a girl I'm with to ever even consider it. Thats me tho. I have a close friend who was raped, and in that case I say yes, allow the abortion if she does not want the child. Some people just are not ready to have kids, some will never be, but if one is forced into having a child out of rape, where is the freedom in that? Or say its a young girl? that COULD ruin the rest of her life, its insanely hard to live with being raped, but to bear a child from it, and have that reminder every day of the rest of your life? It would be both painful and hard. Its hard enough to raise a child on your own. I could not even imagine it..
I for one have never ever thought of my child as a painful reminder of anything. There is a point in time when a person who had been through this, quits thinking about the circustances of how the child was made, and realises that the child was a gift from God regardless of what occured to get them here. I love my son more than life itself, and yeah it was hard to have a child at 15 yrs old, but its not something that cant be done. And who knows where my life would have taken me if it werent for knowing that I had to be strong enough to take care of a child. This meant no parties, no teenage drinking or drugs, none of the things that normal teenagers do. Shortly after I had my son one of my very close friends was killed in a car wreck, maybe God gave me my son to prevent me from being in that car on that night, but I feel there is a lot more involved than just that one night. God has reasons for everything he does, and I believe he is just testing me to see if I am strong enough to deserve what lies beyond this life... JMO!!
