not my real fake name wrote:
Ms. Been There wrote:This is insane. I've had two abortions. I don't think any toll was taken. Couldn't be healthier/happier.This floors me. No matter your personal views on abortion as an abstract concept, when confronted with the reality of extinguishing a small living creature inside you, how could this possibly not have affected you?
If you truly, honestly felt no lingering psychological or emotional effects, again notwithstanding any abstract views about the general question, I would have to suggest that perhaps you may be a psychopath, incapable of human emotion.
Sorry for the blunt assessment, and I'm not a mental health professional so this is just a personal view from a random spectator, but honestly, your statement put me back on my heels a bit. I can't imagine two abortions not having had some effect on a human (particularly the woman involved) without SOME kind of emotional toll.
If you believe life begins at birth (or even viability) then you don't engage the same emotions that folks who belive sperm meets egg equals instant life do.
If you don't believe you are killing a child you would not suffer the emotional angst that you attribute to 'being incapable of human emotion' and to say if you believe in abortion you are a psychopath is ludicrous on it's face.