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This has bothered me for a while. If you had been dating someone for a while, and found out they were Pro-Choice, would that be immediate grounds for dismissal? Are there only certain circumstances in which you would stay with them? Or is it completely irrelevant to you?

Furthermore, if your girlfriend/wife got an abortion, what would you do? I mean, the obvious answer would seem to be dump her/divorce her, but then again, maybe you believe in forgiveness? Or she immediately regrets it and changes her ways?

And I know it's a slightly different situation with women, since a Pro-Choice male wouldn't be making the "choice" to get an abortion.

For me, in most cases, it would quickly end, if not right then and there. I'm sorry, I'm tolerant of the Pro-Choice side, and I can be friends easily with a Pro-Choicer, but a girlfriend? I mean, what if something happened and she got pregnant? I'm sorry, but I can't take the risk that my girlfriend would decide to get an abortion.

On the other hand, if it was someone I'd known for a while and/or I really liked, and she convinced me that she was "Pro-Life personal, Pro-Choice political," then maybe. But I would have to be absolutely certain that she wouldn't get an abortion. And if she did... I don't know. That's so mindblowingly disturbing a thought that I just don't know. I like to think that I believe in forgiveness, and I'd forgive her if she seemed sorry, but on the other hand...

Also, slightly unrelated, but it annoys me how Pro-Choicers don't really have to worry about this. I mean, real Pro-Choicers who support the woman's choice; If their girlfriend turns out to be Pro-Life, okay, that's a choice. If their girlfriend's Pro-Choice and has an abortion, okay, that's a choice too. If they're women and they find out their boyfriend's Pro-Life, it's still not going to affect whether she can get an abortion or not, even if it would add guilt and the complication of a likely breakup to the getting of an abortion.

Discuss!

http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/topics/abortion/default.asp

It made me sick when I first read it.

IN any case, I'm lucky. I"m a girl. I don't have to worry about being forced to lose my child because my partner is pro-choice. I dated a guy once who told me in no uncertain terms that if I got pregnant I'd have an abortion whether I liked it or not, but I decided that's more pro-abortion than pro-choice and doesn't count, really.

If I was male could I date a pro-choice woman? No. Any choicer who's disgusted by that should remember that they're the ones who say, "He should have thought about that before he had sex with a woman who's pro-choice!" when confronted with the fact that the father has no choice and has to put up with his children being killed without him being able to stop it.

Can I do it now, as a woman who's got control over what happens to my children? Yeah, I obviously do. I'm engaged to be married to a man who is most definitely pro-choice. I can't help it, I'm in love with him, and I don't need to worry about my children's safety. If I did, I'd have to choose what mattered most...the man I loved, or the children I might eventually have. I don't know if I could make that choice. If I knew that certainly my children would die, then yes, I could. But if it was, "Maybe," then...knowing me, I'd optimistically and rather foolishly hope to get lucky.

How do you make that choice when you're in love? To say, "I can't be with you. I'm afraid for the lives of my children."

Also, if Terje was different, like if he'd considerbeing with me if he thought I'd have an abortion, I don't know if I could. How can he love my babies, his babies, completely if he wouldn't care if I had them killed? If he's not willing to fight for the lives of his children in their earliest stages, how can I be sure he'll fight for them later on? From the moment I get pregnant, his focus should be on the safety of his baby as well as on me. If it can't be...if he can't feel love for his own child at any point in that baby's life...I don't know if I can have a life with him. A man who cannot love his own children scares me. Family is important to me, and if he can't love any member in his family, then he doesn't love me and our life together would be tainted. It wouldn't just hurt me, it'd hurt him, it'd hurt our children, and maybe even their children.

Lesse...date some one who electivly and on demand or for simple sufferign of the mother feel it is okay to kill a human being in a state that should be their safest, but has no become their most vulnerable?

Ummm...Hell no, damn no, s**t no, ******** no, shall I go on?

No, I could never date some one who was pro-choice by any standard other than for the mortal life of the mother. I have a hard enough time associating with pro-choicers...do you think i could actualy date one?

Except for one guy, everyone I've dated has been pro-choice or at least not definitely pro-life.

I even dated a woman who had an abortion, but in her case the fetus was very sick and near death anyways.

Put it this way: I couldn't date or even be friends with someone who didn't respect my point of view, e.g., someone militant who marches waving coathangers and yelling about keep-your-bible-out-of-my-crotch, etc.

If I held out for someone who shared all my political and moral views, I would die a friendless virgin.

Well, I could date a pro-lifer..... Because I don't want to have sex and don't plan on it.

rofl That's not what I mean, Watashi Wa! I mean, I'm not against premartiel sex, but I'm definitely not gonna have it. I'm at that immature stage where you're like, "EEEEEW!"

...Okay...

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Great job, I.Am!

Yes, yes you do.

You crazy activist. heart