Pregnant 4 times, at age 16. Options

[carolannexbh]

I have a friend (Jackie) at school whom I've met at the beginning of the year. She seemed pretty nice and didnt seem too different than any of us. But she recently told me that she has been pregnant 4 times and after she found out, she would call her friends and they would all drink heavily until the baby died. She also said that she would "accidently fall down stairs" as well. My other friend CC has been with her when she's done this, and says its nothing more than a ton of hard liquor, throwing up, and falling a lot.

My question: If you were at such a young age and got pregnant, what would you do?

[*paperplane*]

Abortion is murder, as Paperplane said, if your heart stops beating you wouldn't be alive, a fetus' heart is beating, so it is alive, and aborting it is murder. It's that simple. If all these people can say "It's my body, it's my choice," it was your choice to open your legs and get pregnant, so deal with it. How fair is it to take the life of an innocent child, the result of your actions, and make them pay for it? It's your body? Well, you're now sharing it with someone else. And as for "not being able to live outside of the womb and surviving?" a newborn baby, without their mother, would not be able to survive on it's own, and depends on it's mother to care for it in the same ways they did in the womb. You all will understand when you have your own children. I'm sure you won't think of them as parasites then.

There are plenty of pro-choice mothers. But it is your body. It's ridiculously unfair that men can have sex without getting pregnant (yes yes biology blah blah blah blah); it's your choice to have sex (assuming it's consensual), but it's not your choice to get impregnated. As you well know.

Now I wouldn't have an abortion if I got pregnant, but I'd be f**king miserable. But, I know my mom would help me take care of it. A lot of people don't have that, and I don't know if I could same if that weren't the case.

[LizzieDeeCeex3]

There are plenty of pro-choice mothers. But it is your body. It's ridiculously unfair that men can have sex without getting pregnant (yes yes biology blah blah blah blah); it's your choice to have sex (assuming it's consensual), but it's not your choice to get impregnated. As you well know.

Now I wouldn't have an abortion if I got pregnant, but I'd be f**king miserable. But, I know my mom would help me take care of it. A lot of people don't have that, and I don't know if I could same if that weren't the case.

Of course we have no choice as to whether or not we get pregnant, but we know there's the risk. That's the whole gamble of having sex. There's always a chance. Is it fair that men can get away with not getting pregnant or dealig with the consequences? No. I'm not pro-life because I'm a mother, I'm pro-life because I don't believe in murder. If people want to chose, I won't stop them, if my best friend told me she was going to have an abortion, I would do my best to convince her otherwise but would support her regardless. I just can't help but think it's insensitive to say it's not murder, because in every sense of the word, it is. What this girl, Jackie, is doing, is a slow and exaggerated murder of 4 innocent babies.

It's our bodies, true, which mean it's our choice to do with it what we want. I fell in love, I did what i felt was right at the time. I'm blessed with a beautiful son. Is it hard? Yes. But it's a body, a connection you and your child share. If abortion wasn't legal, I'm sure people would be much more careful in that sense. They weren't ready to be mothers? Then don't have sex. And it doesn't matter if you're 16 or 60, you are never prepared to be a mother, never prepared for the feelings it will cause, the love you will feel, or the lengths you will go to in order to protect your children.