I've been a pro-lifer and a fence sitter before I became pro-choice. I was pro-life from the time I was fourteen until I was nineteen, and I was a fence sitter from the time I was nineteen until I was twenty-three.
I wasn't pro-life for religious reasons or my family had a huge influence on me becoming pro-life. I had become pro-life because I believed there was a right to life that existed in nature and I was told abortion was killing babies (which I thought of newborns, not fetuses). So, basically, I thought abortion was infantside. Therefore, I used to be flat out against abortion due to that view. It was around the time I was sixteen that I found out that abortions took place during pregnancy, so I realize it wasn't exactly newborns being "killed". However, I still wasn't comfortable with the idea of abortion because it was killing a developing baby...but I began to accept it in cases to save a woman's life and rape.
Before I go on...what I'm about to say is going to sound very crazy. However, this was a major turning point for me in this debate so it's vital I say it. I have premenitions occassionally. Most of them have come true, unfortunately and it's usually something that isn't nice. One premenition of mine has been re-occuring (and still occurs) since I was sixteen and that is I'm going to loose my first pregnancy/baby. Most of the time, it's been about me miscarrying a pregnancy and a few times it's been about me loosing a baby shortly after birth to six months after birth. If someone believes that the right to life existed naturally, you would understand why the miscarriage concept upset me greatly as a lifer. The idea of nature taking my pregnancy away from me, when I didn't abort, showed me that there is no right to life in nature. It upset me and unnerved me greatly. So, I stopped being pro-life and became undecided because I supported abortion in some cases...but not all to be pro-choice. I also used to believe that in order to be pro-choice, you had to love abortion and have one yourself.
So, I basically spent four years on the fence researching abortion from medical sites like National Institute of Health and watching the debate from the side lines. After going to the sites of major pro-life and pro-choice groups to see what their views were, I realized I had way more pro-choice views than pro-life. So, I decided to become pro-choice at the age of twenty-three. However, I would best be described as a pro-choice butt in that first year. However, by the time I was a pro-choice for two years, I became more vehement in my position.
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I wasn't pro-life for religious reasons or my family had a huge influence on me becoming pro-life. I had become pro-life because I believed there was a right to life that existed in nature and I was told abortion was killing babies (which I thought of newborns, not fetuses). So, basically, I thought abortion was infantside. Therefore, I used to be flat out against abortion due to that view.
It was around the time I was sixteen that I found out that abortions took place during pregnancy, so I realize it wasn't exactly newborns being "killed". However, I still wasn't comfortable with the idea of abortion because it was killing a developing baby...but I began to accept it in cases to save a woman's life and rape.
Before I go on...what I'm about to say is going to sound very crazy. However, this was a major turning point for me in this debate so it's vital I say it. I have premenitions occassionally. Most of them have come true, unfortunately and it's usually something that isn't nice. One premenition of mine has been re-occuring (and still occurs) since I was sixteen and that is I'm going to loose my first pregnancy/baby. Most of the time, it's been about me miscarrying a pregnancy and a few times it's been about me loosing a baby shortly after birth to six months after birth. If someone believes that the right to life existed naturally, you would understand why the miscarriage concept upset me greatly as a lifer. The idea of nature taking my pregnancy away from me, when I didn't abort, showed me that there is no right to life in nature. It upset me and unnerved me greatly. So, I stopped being pro-life and became undecided because I supported abortion in some cases...but not all to be pro-choice. I also used to believe that in order to be pro-choice, you had to love abortion and have one yourself.
So, I basically spent four years on the fence researching abortion from medical sites like National Institute of Health and watching the debate from the side lines. After going to the sites of major pro-life and pro-choice groups to see what their views were, I realized I had way more pro-choice views than pro-life. So, I decided to become pro-choice at the age of twenty-three. However, I would best be described as a pro-choice butt in that first year. However, by the time I was a pro-choice for two years, I became more vehement in my position.