<DIV>Thanks for the clarification.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Chasuk <chasuk@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Donovan Arnold<BR><DONOVANJARNOLD2005@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR><BR>> I was trying to lend your argument some merit. As we are talking about why<BR>> women get abortions. Your argument was that young women get pregnant to<BR>> become adults through parenthood.<BR><BR>Were we? We were talking about a lot of things. The original thread<BR>concerned an Interfaith Panel. It then diverged all over the place,<BR>covering everything from IP addresses, to the use of contractions, to<BR>the death penalty. We talked about abortion, and we talked about<BR>pregnancy, but I delineated quite explicitly when I was discussing one<BR>or the other, which, while related, or not the same subject.<BR><BR>> Problem with that argument is that if
they get an abortion, they don't<BR>> become parents, or adults.<BR><BR>Correct. However, the reasons that a girl (or a women) gets pregnant<BR>are manifold. I was merely presenting a common reason (in my<BR>experience). I have known many young ladies who got pregnant for<BR>precisely the reason I described, and yet still got abortions. Not<BR>every idea that seems like a good idea is a good idea when faced with<BR>the reality.<BR><BR>> Now, you either didn't think your argument through, or you were just off on<BR>> a tangent unrelated to discussion of option for unwanted pregnancies<BR>> besides, poverty, abortion, or adoption.<BR><BR>There was no flaw in my argument, largely because I wasn't making one.<BR>I explained why a lot of young girls (in low SES levels especially),<BR>deliberately get pregnant. Many give birth, but many have an "oh %$!,<BR>what I have I done?" moment after the fact, and subsequently choose<BR>abortion. Or their families choose for
them.<BR><BR>I also clearly made my suggestion for preventing unwanted pregnancies:<BR>to quote myself:<BR><BR>>I recommend Depo-Provera, Norplant, or something similar being made freely available to all teenage girls.<BR><BR>Chas<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>