Wow... I feel violated.
Back on topic:
It's very easy for many of you to talk about it, because you've never experienced it.
If my mother didn't had an abortion, I'd have an older brother/sister. Yay.
My mother was recently married with my father. They were organizing their lifes and budget. Of course my parents were extremly happy with their first child, but the truth is that they couldn't raise a child at that point.
Do you think its easy to have an abortion? I'm not even talking about physical pain. Do you think it's easy to bare the idea that you won't meet your first child, ever?
At that time, Portugal didn't allowed abortions. My parents had to go to an illegal abortion house. The conditions were disgusting and the risk of my mother dying from an infection was extremly high.
Again, do you think is that easy to have an abortion? Because many of you just think of an abortion like something you put on your fridge door, next to the shoping list.
When I first confronted my parents whit Pro-Life arguments, they told me that. You can't imagine their faces. Both anger and sadness.
Of course, if my mother didnt had an abortion, I'd have a older brother/sister. But What would have changed? Do you think we'd have the life we have if my parents raised a child at that point? Maybe I wouldn't even be alive, or my little sister. Mybe we'd be all living in the streets. Maybe my mother would have died sooner, 5 years ago, beacuse she couldn't afford the medicine for the cancer.
Again, it's never easy, but we have to think about our future. It's selfish, I admit, but it has to be that way.
(I'm sorry for the long post, I know that most of you won't read it all...)