Before I begin, I want to say two things:

1)I am a bleeding heart liberal

2)While I am a practicioner of the Roman Catholic faith, do not assume every opinion I have is shaped by them. In fact, there is not one view I have that I have solely because of the Church. I have my own mind; I am not controlled by the Vatican.

That being said, after reading Sylvia's post, I have to say that I never have thought, and I never will think, that under any circumstances abortion is okay. And ya know what? I'm tired of feeling sorry for that. Whenever I get into a dicussion with a person who is pro-choice, I don't know, I don't try to make him or her feel ignorant, I just try and maybe get him or her to see it from a perspective that maybe he or she hasn't looked at it from before. But I always feel when I do talk to a pro-choice person that he or she just looks down on me SO MUCH and the possibility I have a good point does not exist. As soon as he or she hears I'm pro-life, he or she(ok, I know it's awkward reading "he or she" instead of "they", but I'm trying to write correctly as much as possible since I do want to be an English teacher) just make all these assumptions and the mind just, like, shuts down and anything I have to say has no merit. "Well, you're Catholic. Of course you think that way." "If you were in her place, you'd do the same thing." Um, no, sorry, you're wrong. If you feel so strongly about it and if you're so much more enlightened than I am, why can't you think of some points to try and make me feel the way you do instead of just turning your nose up at me as soon as the words "pro-life" come out of my mouth?

I could write all these reasons about why I think abortion is wrong. And trust me, it's a long list. But I'll hold it in. And, in an attempt to get on the good side of all you pro-choicers, I'll say this: I don't think abortions should be illegal. I'm not ignorant enough to think that if legislation was changed, there wouldn't be teenagers that made mistakes or poor women that can't handle a kid. Women would still get abortions, no matter what they had to do. It's horrific enough; I don't think having some creep of a doctor in a back alley using a coat hanger and killing more women than he's helping would be a good thing.

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