I don't believe in karma but it does seem to me that having children irresponsibly and/or having too many could catch up to you in the end. So even if you don't care what effect your actions have on the rest of the world, you should at least realize what they could have on you.
I don't think for one second that God...all entities of Him, does not understand human emotions and our concerns...I don't think He is "cold as Ice" as some on this board may give the impression of...I think He is a Merciful God, loving God, a just God who knows what each individual girl having an abortion went through in making their decisions....
in other words, there will be no single group of women that had abortions gathered together and thrown in to the lake of fire on judgment day...as some people may come off implying or actually believe themselves?
I honestly don't know of any case, not one, in maybe the 10 instances of where i know women involved in getting an abortion, where any of them killed their offspring with MALICE....all of them were torn on what to do, were fearful, scared, concerned, sad etc about the position they were in....
No one was rubbing their hands together with glee, shouting goody goody goody, I get to have an abortion today, as the right tries to make these girls out to be....
BUT THE TRUTH of the matter is, that what Sky and I were talking about...karma or "reaping what you sow", is what life is made up of...here on earth....we make choices, bad ones can come back to haunt us, even if we do not think they are a bad choice at the time....God gives us warnings of such, and maybe Buddha did as well....that I am unfamiliar with...but there are consequences to our actions and wrong or immoral or unethical or even just simply unwise or not thoroughly thought out decisions and actions that do bring other reactions down the road to such decisions/actions that could be more painful that one would think....
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I know a few people I was close to who have had abortions. Likewise, none were rubbing their hands with glee. One was raised Catholic and felt uneasy about it but had no hesitation about doing it. I don't know her any more but she never expressed any regret or showed any signs of depression in the 5 years I knew her afterwords. The others were atheists like me and their immediate reaction was relief to have been able have it done. Both had had trouble finding a doctor wiling to do it. Another was preparing to have an abortion when she miscarried.
On the other hand, I was friends for a while with a woman who had wanted an abortion but was talked out of it by her mother and a priest. They convinced her to give her baby up for adoption. She was 17 at the time. When I knew her she was in her late thirties and when she told me how horrible she felt saying goodbye to her baby I nearly cried. She told me that ever since then she was haunted by the idea that the child had not been cared for and may have been abused. It was a closed adoption so she had no idea who took the baby. Whenever she read about some child in the news paper being abused by it's parents she wondered if it was an adopted child. She felt such guilt at having abandoned her baby that she felt she did not deserve to have any other children. Her relationship with her mother deteriorated. She says her biggest regret in life was not having insisted on having the abortion.
and anguille, my heart goes out to your friend and the karma she lives with.
SOUNDS LIKE she would have made a wonderful, protective, worrisome mother...!!!
maybe her decision to follow her parents will, was a mistake, looking back on it, the RIGHT decision for her...would have been to keep her child, regardless of parent's wishes...not aborting.
believe me, she sounds like the type of girl, that if she had aborted, she would be thinking she deserved no other child as well, and she would be thinking 5 years out, my child would be going to school this year, my child would probably be married by now, my child would have given me grandkids by now....
this goes back to the premise of this thread...stopping the unwanted or surprised pregnancy from occurring in the first place is truly what is BEST for all women!
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