IS your support for choice based on principle or personal experience

genius

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Mon Nov-29-04 08:43 PM
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Poll question: IS your support for choice based on principle or personal experience

A lot of us back choice on principle but are pretty much unaffected by the issue in our personal lives. Most women choose to keep their babies because they want them. Haven't heard of any men obtaining abortions. Their daughters might have them. So, I thought I'd check out what percentage of people are personally impacted by the right to choose.

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Warpy

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Mon Nov-29-04 08:47 PM
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1. How about both?

I lost a friend to an illegal abortion. Bleeding to death from uterine rupture is not a good way to go.

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NMDemDist2

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Mon Nov-29-04 08:48 PM
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2. don't know how to answer that one, my mom almost died from a

Mexican abortion before Roe V Wade, i have had friends who had to make that choice

i'm past menopause and never had one, so is it personal or principle?

:shrug:

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genius

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Mon Nov-29-04 08:50 PM
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4. Cases like your mom is why I support it. No one in my family has had one.

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CalebHayes

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Mon Nov-29-04 09:40 PM
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13. I agree, Both.

I know people who have had to have abortions, but I also agree purely on principle. So I guess thats both.

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intheflow

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Mon Nov-29-04 08:48 PM
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3. I got pregant at 17.

I chose to have my son, and now he's a wonderful 22-year-old. But he and I went through hell in those early years and I wouldn't wish those experiences on anyone.

BTW, I don't like to call myself pro-choice; I support reproductive rights. Abortion is a right, not a choice. A right is God-given. Choice is a market phenomenon.

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Spinzonner

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Mon Nov-29-04 08:53 PM
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5. Probably should have been a 'None of your damn business' option

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sweetladybug

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Mon Nov-29-04 09:16 PM
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8. Abortion doesn't affect me personally but I feel strongly for a women's

right to choose. I think, until we walk in someone else's shoes, we should not judge them. There are so many reason's that a women might choose an abortion such as rape, incest, danger to the woman's life, fetus in dying or very deformed and nothing can be done to save it from death or for it to have any quality of life or if mother can't afford the child and has no one to help her. I think women should have all options available to her but she should be allowed to make the final decision and not be harassed if it is a choice others would not choose themself. I have a daughter and I have grand daughters and I do not want a women's right to choose taken from them.

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genius

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Mon Nov-29-04 09:33 PM
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10. The poll is optional and anonymous

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madison2000

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Mon Nov-29-04 08:58 PM
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6. I volunteered as a Rape Victim Advocate for 7 years

and I can tell you that you never know when it is going to affect you personally.

I know someone who recently became pregnant at an outdoor rock concert- she was drunk, with drunk friends, and is still trying to figure out what happened.

She is 29 and has never been pregnant, and she never thought something like this could happen to her.

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HawkerHurricane

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Mon Nov-29-04 09:04 PM
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7. Yes.

Technically, as a man, I never got a abortion. But I have assisted friends with the issues surrounding thiers.
Their body, thier choice.

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DaveinMD

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Mon Nov-29-04 09:29 PM
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9. right now principle

But I'm having a daughter early next year and I want her to have complete freedom when she enter adulthood.

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lwesty

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Mon Nov-29-04 09:35 PM
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11. God gave us free will

so we can learn and grow through our choices. Who is the government to tell someone what the right choice is for them? Sweetladybug is right about not judging.

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liberal democrat

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Mon Nov-29-04 09:35 PM
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12. For religious reasons, I am personally pro-life

because according to my beliefs, life beings at conception. However, I respect that according to other people's belief systems, life does not begin at conception. That's why I am pro-choice.

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