Abortion: My Story, My Heartache - Writers Forum

ashleyc8705 · 02-03-2008, 01:31 AM

This is my third published article. It is not for the faint hearted. Please do not preach or lecture to me. I know I have made mistakes and I am only human. Please do enjoy.

Abortion: My Story, My Heartache - Associated Content

Scott Tuplin · 02-18-2008, 12:19 PM

This reminded me so much of a friend of mine, who is also serving a jail sentence at the moment but not for anything as serious as sex offences.

Only difference is that his girlfriend decided to keep the baby, and perhaps isn't doing as well as she would be if the father was around but is still bringing up the baby girl as best she can.

She has the support of friends & family, however, and I was just wondering that if you had had that same support would you have kept the baby?

I understand this is a very sensitive subject for you, so don't feel you have to answer.

devilcurls6981 · 02-18-2008, 01:29 PM

wow.... thats really powerful.

Truth-Teller · 02-18-2008, 01:59 PM

I have a question: are you going to tell your husband?

If you were raped, I'd understand. You weren't raped. You went along with it--with him. I call that selfish.

What have you learned? Trust no one. Trust no man until the day you die.

JosephB · 02-18-2008, 08:58 PM

You feel you did what you had to do. It's done. So I hope you can forgive yourself.

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I have a question: are you going to tell your husband?

If you were raped, I'd understand. You weren't raped. You went along with it--with him. I call that selfish.

What have you learned? Trust no one. Trust no man until the day you die.

I agree whole-heartedly. Dying alone, hating the world, can't be as bad as all that. And you can always have a dozen cats or so to keep you company in the meantime.

I wish we could hang Truth-Teller. 'Cause man, you always nail it.

devilcurls6981 · 02-19-2008, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Truth-Teller

I have a question: are you going to tell your husband?

If you were raped, I'd understand. You weren't raped. You went along with it--with him. I call that selfish.

What have you learned? Trust no one. Trust no man until the day you die.

woah.... yeah it wasn't rape but it was still a bad situation to bring a child into.
So, who are you to call her selfish, its her body not yours, so you have no right to judge what she did with it. And she told you not to preach, and what do you do, preach.

SevenWritez · 02-20-2008, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by devilcurls6981

woah.... yeah it wasn't rape but it was still a bad situation to bring a child into.
So, who are you to call her selfish, its her body not yours, so you have no right to judge what she did with it. And she told you not to preach, and what do you do, preach.

Forums such as this should allow for a multitude of opinions. She is sharing a story, and if she doesn't want to receive criticism for it--be it personal or technical--then she shouldn't post it in the first place. Truth-Teller spoke his mind just as he has the right to. Get off your horse.

devilcurls6981 · 02-20-2008, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by SevenWritez

Forums such as this should allow for a multitude of opinions. She is sharing a story, and if she doesn't want to receive criticism for it--be it personal or technical--then she shouldn't post it in the first place. Truth-Teller spoke his mind just as he has the right to. Get off your horse.

yes, I know this. If he/she can say what they feel I can.

MusicSoundsBetterWithYou · 02-20-2008, 05:22 PM

Then say what you feel. Damn.

To the writer:
A powerful piece of work.
I was sucked in from the start.
I was almost feeling your pain.

Though i do not agree with Abortion AT ALL, your perspective of the whole subject, almost made me change my mind.

But i would also like to pose this question also:

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Originally Posted by Scott Tuplin

She has the support of friends & family, however, and I was just wondering that if you had had that same support would you have kept the baby?

EDIT: Through reading a second time, I do feel that you were quite selfish.
No i;m not trying to put you down, but simply stating what i felt from what you wrote.
To come out with such a hateful mindset .. I dunno.

I'm too young to fully grasp all of this.
Take my comment as you will.

Dr. Apopolus · 02-20-2008, 10:37 PM

You did what you had to do. No one wants to raise the daughter of a sex offender.

MusicSoundsBetterWithYou · 02-20-2008, 11:05 PM

True. But you could've at least given her up for adoption.

Mishki · 02-20-2008, 11:26 PM

Selfish?! How ridiculous. The writer was in a shitty situation. She made the best choice she could at the time. That's not selfish; that's reason.

MusicSoundsBetterWithYou · 02-20-2008, 11:45 PM

It wasn't rape. It was sex that both agreed to.
Give it up for adoption.
I don't mean to sound like a dickhead, but it's what i would've done in your situation.
You should've have been more responsible when having sex out of marriage.

Mishki · 02-21-2008, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by MusicSoundsBetterWithYou

It wasn't rape. It was sex that both agreed to.

So?

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Give it up for adoption.

I'm glad that you think you're qualified to issue orders to everyone else.

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I don't mean to sound like a dickhead, but it's what i would've done in your situation.

How could you possibly know that? Have you been in it?

ETA: Oh, you're a guy. It must be easy to sit in the condemner's chair when it's literally impossible for you to be in the situation.

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You should've have been more responsible when having sex out of marriage.

Because clearly, the precise thing that people who are too irresponsible to use birth control should do is raise children.

MusicSoundsBetterWithYou · 02-21-2008, 01:15 AM

delete.