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it all depends on what the circumantances are
posted by
Lanetay
on August 9, 2008 at 8:07 AM
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Hi Jen!
I am pro choice...but like Skye...I don't think that abortion should be used as birth control.
What I would like to see is more help for women and girls who are put in this type of situation...help that will encourage saving these babies from abortion or child abuse, etc.
Very beautiful work here, Jen! 
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on August 8, 2008 at 6:24 PM
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I hope you are well my dear Jen
take good care and have a blessed weekend my friend; as the subject matter of your post is highly delicate for me you will forgive me for not commenting on it
posted by mariaki on August 8, 2008 at 5:55 AM | | reply |
posted by
__Purple_Mermaid11__
on August 8, 2008 at 5:09 PM
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Wonderful, Dear J!
posted by
teddypoet_TheGoodByeFade
on August 8, 2008 at 4:38 PM
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Not an easy topic
and you wrote about it beautifully. But I am with Skye08, better a legal abortion than the old days with back alleys. An un-wanted child will have difficulty to be a happy child. And there is always a second chance, another life after death.
posted by
auslander
on August 8, 2008 at 4:35 PM
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A beautiful poem ...
... you wrote:
Note; just had a close encounter with someone who dealt with this theme. I didnt realize just how heavy it would be to write about it until I did...
... and you managed very well. The sadness of life, living and death are twisted together as on a string ... and ... I believe we're here to learn how to handle it.
To surrender to the process of learning makes us in better shape to handle what will come (from my point of view) - 
- genio
posted by
ggXpress
on August 8, 2008 at 12:43 PM
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Difficult subject. Lovely poem
posted by
Lotus_Flower
on August 8, 2008 at 11:54 AM
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I am speechless....
posted by
mejustme
on August 8, 2008 at 9:39 AM
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Only the good die young love. 
With TLC, BCA, "Top of the Stairs"
posted by
BC-A
on August 8, 2008 at 6:42 AM
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I bathe in your warm healing powers of love dearest one
posted by
Smittenheimer
on August 7, 2008 at 11:22 PM
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Excellent poem, very well written, mermaid
posted by
Kayzzaman
on August 7, 2008 at 10:21 PM
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Hello the Purple
What a beauty of a poem! Fantastic! Fabulou!! What a really really dear loving soul you are. You know Jen, somehow your blog would just not open, I don't know why? How're the young ones?
from mine to yours family
to see you again after such a long time.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on August 7, 2008 at 9:32 PM
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So much sadness and pain
A truly beautiful poem and written from your soul Although a very sad experience, there is a life lesson to be learned that will bring more wealth to your soul.
As an OB/GYN nurse I was at times confronted with assisting when other nurses refused. I did not feel it was my place to judge but to give the best care I could to someone in deep distress not only from physical pain but psychological pain. At least it was not like before Roe v Wade and I often had to take care of a dying young woman from either bleeding or a drug overdose from some drug a friend that said would cause an abortion. Abortion is not birthcontrol but there are times when the fetus has incompatible with life anomalies, rape, incest, life threatening conditions to the mother it is definately warranted without exception with the best medical care has to offer. I have had a stillborn child. I know what these woman are going through and the impact having your baby die will have on you for the rest of your life. When it gets right down to it, if I had to choose the days of back alley abortions and watching young girls die from bleeding or sepsis and seeing the pain their parents had to cope with and today, I have to pick today's standards. All life is sacred but an abortion done early under clean surgical conditions by a licensed physician is better than losing 2 lives. In all pregnancies there is ambivalance in the early part and there is not a reality of a baby unless it is a high priority pregancy (infertility). In "Life Between Life" souls don't enter the infant until usually after 5 months gestation and then moves between this world and heaven until the child is as old as 7 or 8 years old. In the end it's always the male species that is the cause of it all. None the less, it is a sad experience for all. Sorry for the diatribe but it is a question to ponder. If it were your friend or daughter and she didn't want to or was afraid to confide or ask for help, which would you prefer, a back alley coat hanger scraping or drug overdose and didn't have rich parents to pay a doctor off, what would your choice be? Lose your friend, sister, daughter, aunt, or mother along with the life within Either way it is not a perfect world. You can't dictate morality and lack of choice won't make abortion go away. It will increase deliberate fetal death after delivery and child abuse and increase mortality rates in babies, toddlelors and children. What is your choice?
I'm sorry about your experience with your friend and I hope she can get some help with a group that is a speciality for grieving mothers. She can e-mail me if she wants to talk. I've started a grieving group after I lost my son and I have delivered many stillborns. I have had the experience on both sides of the coin. May you and your friend be blessed.
posted by
skye08
on August 7, 2008 at 9:18 PM
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Welcome back with same powerful energy and feelings ..
posted by
afzal50
on August 7, 2008 at 9:18 PM
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it is heavy
and the poem is beautiful, mermaid
posted by
Luz_Briar
on August 7, 2008 at 8:56 PM
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Welcome back !!! What a beautiful tribute to all those killed babies.... You have a wonderful heart dear Jen, and it shows in your poems with a radiance that amazes and moves. Great poem
posted by
Sinome
on August 7, 2008 at 8:20 PM
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