Sometimes you have to be blunt

My last post, an experiment to see if we could truly get some good dialogue going between the sides, seems to have proved a failure. Those who I believed would give the matter some thought instead of spitting out knee-jerk rhetoric ... ended up spitting out knee-jerk rhetoric.

Sometimes, reading their responses and just their stances in general, I wonder if the average pro-lifer gives ANY thought to children once they are no longer fetuses. If abortion was abolished tomorrow, do they believe that all the women would have aborted would suddenly change their minds and desperately want to be mothers? Do they believe the children born as a result will go on to lead sunny little lives? Or do they believe that regardless of the situation the children would just be thrilled to be alive? After all, they like being alive--why wouldn't anyone else?

Well, then let me pose another question:

How would you prefer the children to die? As tiny non-sentient human beings, or as fully aware human beings who can feel pain and terror? Apparently it's the latter. It disgusts me that people can look at abused and abandoned children, many of whom have experienced horror beyond our imagining, and think "ooh, but they're ALIVE, they should be HAPPY!" It disgusts me that people whine about abortion cutting into the number of adoptable kids but blissfully ignore the thousands clogging American state care or complain that there's not enough babies to go around and therefore women should carry pregnancies they don't want to carry just so someone can get a baby. It disgusts me that people can look at these damaged children and want MORE to come into the world.

Let me be blunt:

Some women do not want to be pregnant. Under ANY circumstances.

No child asks to be born.

And until you can come up with a viable solution as to what to do with all the children CURRENTLY EXISTING OUT OF UTERO before you compel women to bring forth every fetus ever created, I don't want to hear you bleating about all the "little innocent babies being slaughtered" because you're showing that you don't give a damn about children. Just as long as that nasty eight-week abortion isn't done, you apparently have no problem with children being molested, assaulted, abused and murdered once they're born. Not ONE "pro-lifer" who responded to my previous post said "Hey, listen, if I was running things this is what I'd do with the foster system." Nope, they came out with all the crap that they usually come out with, "waah, you're killing babies!" Well, apparently the only difference between pro-choice and pro-life is that pro-life prefers their children to suffer and be aware of it before they die.

Yes, I'm pissed off, what was your first clue?