Pro Choice Mothers...

I spent the whole six years of my first marriage trying to get pregnant. Never happened. Definitely for the better though I didn't feel that way at the time. We even went through fertility treatment. Six months after my husband left I found myself pregnant... and alone. I was 29 years old, had a good enough job that I thought I could handle raising my daughter on my own. I have to tell you, I would give anything to go back to those first two years I had alone with her. It was frustrating at times and some times I lost it, but I wouldn't change it for anything. I would go back and enjoy our time together more, though I think we did spend a lot of time together because it was just us. My daughter does not know the situation surrounding her birth as I got together with my current husband before I got pregnant but we broke up. We ended out back together again and he adopted her. She knows nothing about what I went through and maybe some day I will tell her. But right now she thinks her Dad is her Dad and that's the way we want it to be. I could never abort a child. I also had a miscarriage in between my two girls (again, unmarried but at least with BF) and I was devestated. I could never end the life of a baby. It is not their fault they were created. God plays a strong hand in the way things turn out. Everything happens for a reason. I couldn't imagine my life without my almost 15 year old daughter.

I wouldn't have aborted either of my children. They were both unplanned but there was never any question about it. To me, once they're there, they're there. I think the only time I would even consider an abortion would be in a case of serious health risks but even then I don't think I could do it. I personally don't think abortion is a good thing although I can understand why some people do it. For example, your first response from Raven, although I don't think I would have done the same thing, I can understand why she did. My kids know that they were "accidents" but they also know they are loved unconditionally. They are too young to really understand about this sort of thing but once they are old enough, if they ask I will make sure they know that there was never any doubt that I would have them once I knew they were there.

I already have aborted one of my kids...but leaving that aside, to answer your question is next to impossible really I mean what would the "situation" be for starters...

My mother is pro-choice and I know if "I" would have been conceived at a different time or a more dire situation, she would have gotten an abortion. As a matter of fact, she was one of those "you never really know until it happens" type women. She never wanted kids, always said she'd abort if she ever got pregnant, but when she did get pregnant when she was 33, she decided to keep it. And she denies it, but I think another part of the equation was that she didn't find out until she was about 3 months along, past the abortion time frame when she found out.

Wow what a way to ask why someone supports abortion or not. The question is unfair and really unanswerable since if their children are alive their situation was not such that an abortion was something they felt they needed to do. Abortion is not something that should be taken lightly, pro choice or not, it is a very serious and frightening thing, however it doesn't diminish the fact that there are many situations where an abortion is preferable to carrying the child to term. In the end I think any parent would abort any child if their situation were dire enough.

I could not tell you an answer because my situation was not diffrent there for i do not think about what it would b e like had i aborted my child, or does she know... shes only 3 of course she doesnt know. i dont beleive in abortion,unless the child would be born with painful skin disease or anything else that would put him /her through pain.. i wouldnt abort..

None. I am only prochoice because I don't believe a woman should be forced to carry a baby as a result of rape or incest, and I don't believe I have the right to tell any woman she has to carry a baby. But for me, I could never have an abortion, I have had one miscarriage and that was horrible, I wouldn't end a life on purpose.

It's a pretty jerky question. An early pregnancy isn't a child, and a child isn't an early pregnancy. If you eat some sunflower seeds, do you say that you just snacked on a flower? I've had two miscarriages, to suggest that losing those pregnancies are anything like what losing a child would be like is absurd. Every child should have the security and love that would come from being born out of a choice to do so.

I can not imagine aborting any of my children, they are all blessings, even my adopted brood. That is what I tell them, I was stuck with what God me me with my 2 natural born, but they are special cause I chose them. To me abortion is murder, no matter if you are raped, if your health is in danger etc. If we Christians practice what we say we believe in, then we should have the faith that God can handle all situations. That's my 2 cent.

I became pregnant on birth control twice in very compromising times. I gave it much thought and both times opted to make the best of it. Looking at my beautiful girls now, I am so so very glad for the choice I made. That being said, I am glad that I had the choice. I can't imagine being forced to raise a child when your heart is not in it.

I would never do it I do not care about my situation. EVERYONE deseves a chance at life and if I could not properly care for my child i know that there is someone else out there who would love them just as much. And yes my children do and will know that.

I would never have an abortion but it is still legal so you got the choice I just wish women would be more responsible with their bodies and maybe we can bring the abortion rate down.

I wouldnt have abortedany of my children, they were both planned pregnancies and I love them equally. I would have loved them just hte same if they were severly disabled too. I am not against abortion but I dont understand how you can ask such as question, which caring mother would say oh I would have aborted my son / daughter because..... its just not right. You chose to have the child and therfor no matter how they turn out or what they do it not the point. You chose not to abort so you shouldnt even think about it after they are here as far as IM concerned.

Honestly, I quite appalled at the very concept that one can actually wish a person be aborted if things went wrong, or came far from how we expect them to become. Sorry, but babies at the beginning of their conception are already persons like us. That's not just the way we should believe it; it's just the way it is. They are no less than us who made it to the world. But your question is a speculative one. It just hit me to learn that instead of trying to work things out with persons whom we find hard to love, we would wish them aborted instead. That's just not a good step to start dealing to them with. How about trying to figure ways to work things out? How about trying to seek help? Or how about offering love when it's seems hopeless. For when everything else fail, try love. It might work. Rather than wishing them ill, even if it is just to entertain thoughts. Just thinking out aloud.