Those who support unlimited access to abortion: how often do you consider the fact that, if your mother had so decided, she could have aborted YOU?

[Snsl153]

Yes, I know, another question about abortion. Seriously though, I've often wondered how "the other side" in this whole debate considers that very real possibility. They are only here at all in the first place because their mothers chose to bring them into the world, and not terminate the pregnancy. If events had played out only slightly differently, they wouldn't even be here to call for the ending of the lives of so many others yet to be born, people who may have grown up to become just like they are.

I've never actually thought about that.

I have thought about that possibility, but in the end it makes no difference to my stance on the issue.

It's a hypothetical. Who cares?

(Some other reaction - see comment)

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Option B, at 52%, is currently in the lead. To those who clicked on that option, I seriously have to wonder if there is any argument that could ever compel you to at least consider the possibility that perhaps you're actually wrong.
I mean, if even the thought of your own non-existence isn't enough, then I guess I'll just have to assume that there aren't any possible reasons that would ever change your mind.

[ShadezMcgee]

I thought about this years back. I never considered asking my mother that question because the question is not relevant since I am here now and she said I was planned. Although I did wonder if at a very low point or feeling scared if she considered doing it. Definitely morbid and not something I want to know.

She supports abortion to a degree, but overall believes abortion is wrong.

[Hellodownthere]

Define irony. A bunch of pro-choice women on my facebook friends list praising their mothers on mother's day while telling other women they should abort their babies. Seriously. They're posting pro-choice screeds right alongside of mother's day shout outs. You can't make this shit up lol lol

[Snsl153]

Wow. That's really depraved, really sick.

[IveGotNoName]

If my mother had aborted me, I expect her to have had a good reason. Unlimited access to abortion doesn't mean that women just have an abortion casually. It's just for when someone knows that they can't raise the child properly, or if the child would completely derail their life. I wouldn't want to be raised by someone who didn't want me.

[UCrayCray]

That’s right. Our mothers chose to bring us into the world.
My mother exercised her choice.
If my mother decided to have an abortion, I wouldn’t be here, and I’d be none the wiser.

[Snsl153]

Okay. I was just asking.

[UCrayCray]

Oh! I hope that didn’t come across as aggressive. That wasn’t my intention.

[Soteris]

I mean.. Why would I care if I never existed in the first place? The only reason I can even have this conversation is because the events in the world conspired to put me here. Millions upon billions of random events and personal decisions all leading up to me being born and if any of them were even slightly different I might not ever exist.

So I honestly dont care if it means I might never have existed but I do care about the rights of people, including my mum, to have the rights over their own bodies.

[andreasderjuengere]

If Mom would have done so, I wouldn't even know.
The world would have missed one smart guy ( :P ) but there are enough others.

Just wondering: if my ''soul'' does not get an earthly appointment - what other (and perhaps better) options are out there?

[Juxtapose]

Well of course I thought about it and it doesn't bother me. If I was never born then I wouldn't really feel sad about it because I would have never had any thoughts and I would just be dead.

Now I get to have thoughts for about 80 to 90 years before I'm dead again and return to nonexistence. Not really that much of a change there when you look at it from the grand scope of things.

[Agape93]

She could have but didn't. If she had, I'd have been saved a lot of misery in life.

I'm more wondering why anti choicers always use this as one of their gotcha questions.

[slatyb]

I wouldn't be here. So what? There would be no me to care about that.

[TheReturnOfTheK1ng]

If my mother told me that she tried to abort me, I would take away her last name and abandon her in her old age.

[AviatorTom]

Ah, but she didn't. That's what choice is all about. Thanks for clarifying that.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't be here to feel any type of way about it. Nice try, though.

[Snsl153]

Yes, I know that, but the question wasn't about how you'd feel if you'd never been born, because we all know the obvious answer to that specific question.

[Opinion Owner]

That IS how I feel about it. If my mother had aborted me, I know she would have had a good reason.

Had she been forced to have me, I doubt my life would be how it is today, as I would have started life at a disadvantage. The thought of my mother having the option to abort me, dosen't bother me, at all.

[msc545]

I was adopted as a child - I've thought about it plenty