Hong wu wrote:I find the narcissism that sometimes characterizes the abortion movement (people who use aborting their own children to glorify themselves and tweak the noses of those who disagree with them) to be very distasteful and generally unwise.
Can you please provide a source to this claim? I've never heard of someone "glorifying" abortion and I doubt this happens. I'd find it more than distasteful and unwise, but then I doubt this actually happens.
Hong wu wrote:The abstinence camp believes that self-control in sexual matters is socially and spiritually beneficial.
That's really great until you do have sex, the birth control fails, or you are in a situation where you unwisely forget or overlook it, and you end up with a pregnancy. Most people do not engage in abstinence because it's simply not as easy as it sounds.
I'm for letting people decide for themselves, and if you can accept the decision to abort, or not, then that's completely up to you, not some other person.
I do not disagree with you on other things, and I have never known people to use abortion as birth control. That would be wrong, on many levels. Yet, people are human, and do make stupid decisions and mistakes. We have to remember that.
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