Originally posted by Angelique
Originally posted by fourpawsonthefloor
I'll agree its harsh...but do you disagree with the statement?
Paws
Yes, I do. With the exception of Phelps and his ilk, I don't believe that anyone who opposes elective abortion would change their mind in order to kill a gay fetus. Those who would are simply against abortion when it's convenient for them to be so, not truly pro-life.
Also, being pro-life never has been a cut and dried matter of being liberal or conservative. There are, after all, a lot of liberal pro-life organizations around. I've thrown in my support for Democrats for Life and Feminists for Life, for starters.
Oh, fully agreed. The statement wasn't that all pro-lifers were pro-aborting-gay-babies, but that pro-aborting-gay-babiers were likely to be pro-life in other circumstances.
You know, without being the bad guy, but I would tend to the abortion of a homosexual child.
This has totally nothing to do with being homophobic or stuff like that, just imagine: You probably will never have grandchildren (at least the normal way, adoption and other practices left aside), you will have to raise a child that probably will never have the same sexual orientation as you (which makes raising it that much harder), and finally, all the hardships your gay kid will have to go through, you won't be able to offer it a life that is, by the majority of society, considered as normal.
All parents who "end up" with a gay child are doing so completely coincidentally, and not only a few come out as brilliant parents, but be honest: Do you think they would have even remotely thought they'd be good at it before it happened?
I had people come up and ask me a similar thing before I concieved my children, as I had a husband of a different race. 'Don't you think they'll be picked on in school.' and all that. Some flat out thought I was doing a bad thing by purposefully concieving bi-racial children. I was stunned.
Needless to say your statement is also a shock. Gay people aren't aliens. You raise a gay child the same way you'd raise any other child, with love, boundaries and acceptance of who they are as a person. Its not rocket science. (well actually being a parent is tough, but that goes across the board).
My kids will 'never be like the majority'. They are different, and kids have already noticed and commented on that. Yes, they will most likely even face some judgement on that into adulthood. Do I regret concieving them? Hell no. And no one should ever feel that judgement for their child, just based on the morons in society. Since
when am I going to let the ignorant choose if my child has a right to existance?
Aborting fetuses just based on the fact that they
may be gay is abhorent. While I respect the right for women to choose...it is not in my comfort zone to abort for any other reason than profound medical complications or unusual extenuating circumstances.
The actions of this small group of zealots (who obviously only represent a very small part of Christianity - I would think that most Christians would not support this) only proves just how far from God that they really are.
Paws
They're fighting!
The very idea of that makes my skin crawl, and if it was ever possible it's one step closer to designer babies.