Sigh… so, what kind of answer do you expect to that question? Whatever it is, it’ll just be one more thing that you dissect and deconstruct. Frankly I’m getting tired of all this back-and-forth… nobody here is going to change their well-established views. As to your question, the short answer is, abortion is a traumatic thing to go through, physically and emotionally, and I hope that I will never experience it. I don’t feel that I can say much more than that since I’ve never had an abortion, so I’m not going to pontificate on the various mental and emotional effects. All I can do is reflect that, knowing myself, if it happened to me I would basically be on an emotional rollercoaster and it would take a lot of time to get over. On the one hand I don’t know if I could ever go through with having an abortion… but on the other hand, if I were raped (which again, hopefully will never happen) and became pregnant from it, I really don’t know if I could carry that child.

My comments were directed toward the T-shirt, which I find appalling.

And exactly how is that playing with semantics? Some is very different from all.

On a different note the T-shirt is horrific. Again, I don’t care whether you’re pro-choice or pro-life, you should still feel that abortion is a horrible experience to go through.

Come on, give me a break. Haven’t you seen me say on a million occassions how absolutely horrible I think abortion is? How I can’t imagine how awful I would feel if I ever had one? Does that make me any less passionate about the importance of a woman’s right to choose? Not for a second. In fact, in a way it makes me more passionate.

All that said, I really don’t think anyone here is arguing against sex education here. Perhaps some folks may disagree with the venue it should be taught in, but I think we should all be informed about these types of actions. So I think that addresses sarabeth’s first concern with me.

On a different note the T-shirt is horrific. Again, I don’t care whether you’re pro-choice or pro-life, you should still feel that abortion is a horrible experience to go through. And to advertise that you had one is pathetic and degrading.

You want to champion women’s rights? I’ll stand right by you and fight all the way - equal pay in the workplace, breaking the glass ceiling in business, fighting discrimination, halting female circumsion in Africa, etc. and etc. But if you feel so insecure about your ‘rights’ that you have to wear a shirt proudly proclaiming you terminated a pregnancy, then I have little respect for what you want or feel you are entitled to.

I’m a Christian, but I would never walk around wearing a T-shirt saying ‘You’re all going to hell’ because that would do little to advance my cause and would more than likely lead to angry confrontations. If I’m supposed to be a witness and converting people to my faith, then pissing ‘em off ain’t the most effective way to do it.

Bravery? Hardly.

Short-sighted belligerance? Perhaps.

Wasn’t that the whole argument about educating them on sex? I mean, I am sure I can quote earlier posts saying that kids are going to have sex anyway, so they need to be educated about it?