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It's hard to believe my parents were alive when abortion was illegal

posted 9 years ago by CharlesVariations
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It's just like imagining they were alive when segregation existed. When you're not born in that "era" it almost seems as if it was something that happened a long time ago. For instance the cold war and the Soviet Union were around for 2 years when I was alive, but of course I didn't remember, yet to me it feels like that was something that occurred a long time ago.

Only people with money say that money doesn't matter.

[–] myndchanger 9 years ago

It is strange. The 20th century was like a train with no brakes. Every era flashed by leaving every next generation feeling like 30yrs ago was a lifetime ago. I've lived it and it's just strange.

[–] greggjulian-60087 8 years ago

This is probably the best explanation I've ever seen to explain the rapid changes of the 20th Century. Maybe it really was a uniquely tumultuous Century. It's as if the First World War disturbed some kind of equilibrium and it took the rest of the century to get it back. Great post.

[–] myndchanger 8 years ago

Problem is that I said 30yrs ago and it was really a 20yrs ago mind set. Or ten. The difference between Frank Sinatra and the Beatles is about ten years. The difference between the Beatles and Punk rock is about 10 years. I'm just using Rock as a ruler ( rule. a strip of wood, metal, or other material having a straight edge and usually marked off in inches or centimeters, used for drawing lines, measuring, etc,)

[–] iluvnyc 9 years ago

Well Charles if you're old enough to vote and care enough to be an activist be sure to help keep it legal and repeal all the creeping restrictions that exist now. Because soon, you may be living in the past due to all those Americans that want to take the country back.

[–] Redart27 9 years ago

... and if Ted Cruz or Donald Trump become president in 2017, then you too can be alive in an era when abortion is illegal.

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[–] strntz 9 years ago

.. and if Ted Cruz or Donald Trump become president in 2017, then you too can be alive in an era when abortion is illegal.

Nice thought but abortion will never be illegal again. America has become to narcissistic to care about annoyances like unwanted but not yet born human beings. These babies can't speak for themselves, and not enough people advocate for them now.

Just another sin that America possesses that will never be rectified.

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[–] Elephantlips 8 years ago

Yet another imbecilic American voter that has no clue how our system works.

Ever hear of this thing called congress idiot? They pass bills into law. The president doesn't pound his fist and make it so.

Unless your name is Barack Obama that is.

[–] davebuffalo (3442) 5 years ago

The media has you fooled into thinking that abortion will be outlawed, so that you'll vote Democrat, but it's simply NOT TRUE. It will always be decided at the state level. There could be a very states that overturn it, but never at the Federal level.

[–] Ithilfaen 8 years ago

You want to celebrate killing an unborn foetus / child as somehow being an intrinsically modern, enlightened thing to do? People have different reasons for doing it but there should be no joy in abortion itself, as if that beating heart was just dead tissue.

Don't be a moron, it's the freedom that should be celebrated, nobody is saying "yay, dead babies".

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

[–] MsMelbaToast 8 years ago

Making abortion illegal would lead to many "Penny" situations. Girls dying from illegal crude abortions. It's a scary thought. To me, at least.

[–] JaneBingley 8 years ago

Oh please, not the girls dying from illegal abortions again.

Women now have very opportunity to avoid pregnancy, and even if they become pregnant, no one lift an eyelid over single mothers these days.

[–] CharlesVariations 8 years ago

I've known people who have gotten pregnant while wearing condoms, and had the sponge. Stuff happens.

Only people with money say that money doesn't matter.

[–] Furienna (3342) 8 years ago

To be fair though, I don't believe that Penny's problem was the pregnancy per se. But it was the sad fact that she had to feel such shame about what had happened, and it was obvious that she would lose her job if her boss found out. If we could have helped these unwed mothers back then and not shamed them, the killing of helpless babies would never have become legal.

[–] pioneergrrrl (2408) 6 years ago

that era was not pro-life/pro-family. Not at all. People naively pining for those days forget there was no family leave, no maternity leave, no non-discrimination law. Yes it was chivalrous for the guy to marry the girl. but he was not required under law.

So no I personally don't think that era was 'great'.

[–] pioneergrrrl (2408) 5 years ago

But you would still also need abortion since women who get pregnant do have things like high blood pressure, cancer and other things which can make a pregnancy deadly to carry to term. It's not like playing with a doll when we were kids. Much different.

[–] BuckSwope (3511) 5 years ago

Undeterred access to abortion would reduce the abortion rate because women would also have access to birth-control. And pelvic exams. And breast cancer screenings. And family planning counseling.

Planned Parenthood does all this in America and republicans want to dismantle it.

[–] Furienna (3342) 5 years ago

So you can't provide those other things without also providing abortions?

Did you perhaps forget the woman from PP, who was only to happy to sell off body parts from aborted babies?

[–] BuckSwope (3511) 5 years ago

Where is that woman? She doesn't exist. Where is that women????

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[–] CharlesVariations 8 years ago

Upon writing this post I knew full well that pro-lifers would be coming on here spouting their anti choice nonsense. I'd just ignore it, this was posted to speak only about how it amazes me that abortion was still illegal as late as the 1970s.

Only people with money say that money doesn't matter.

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[–] miss_kitae-971-650846 8 years ago

"Blessing" is subjective.

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[–] JaneBingley 8 years ago

I am very happy that abortion was illegal in 1967, when I was born.

Otherwise, I would not have been here today, and my mother would have regreted it the rest of her life. I was loved from the second she saw me.

She has had a wonderful life, with a wonderful man, and I know she thinks of this sometimes. Especially since I have four children now, who gives her so much joy.

My husband would also not been alive, and his mother would have been happy with that.

[–] CharlesVariations 8 years ago

Great. Not everyone has the same story. And that's not an argument.

Only people with money say that money doesn't matter.

[–] Furienna (3342) 8 years ago

Dear Jane, I have to thank you so much for sharing that.

My parents had a friend with a similar story. Her mother did not want her and had two (!) failed abortions. But the baby was given up for adoption, and she didn't have anything negative to say about her adoptive parents or her biological father. This woman is now a great-grandmother. And if any of those two failed abortions had succeeded, four generations of women/girls would never have existed.