I'm not sure if posting this is super taboo..

aidiasullivan

When we wished upon a star...:

I don't think there's anything honorable about this man...People don't bring video cameras with them unless they're hoping to instigate something. He wasn't protecting his wife - he was picking a fight. He has his beliefs and they have theirs...

He mentioned at the beginning of the video that he and his wife had experienced a "fetal demise" (which I went through during my first pregnancy). I don't know of a single doctor's office that would send a paitent to an abortion clinic to perform a d&c for a miscarriage.

I'm calling bullsh*t on this one.

 

Every cell phone I have had in the last 5 years has had a video camera.

It wasn't an "abortion" clinic. It's a womens health clinic and there are many reasons to go there.

You need to get smarter.

HolliEllison

aidiasullivan:

When we wished upon a star...:

I don't think there's anything honorable about this man...People don't bring video cameras with them unless they're hoping to instigate something. He wasn't protecting his wife - he was picking a fight. He has his beliefs and they have theirs...

He mentioned at the beginning of the video that he and his wife had experienced a "fetal demise" (which I went through during my first pregnancy). I don't know of a single doctor's office that would send a paitent to an abortion clinic to perform a d&c for a miscarriage.

I'm calling bullsh*t on this one.

 

Every cell phone I have had in the last 5 years has had a video camera.

It wasn't an "abortion" clinic. It's a womens health clinic and there are many reasons to go there.

You need to get smarter.

Wow Bitchy Mc.Bitcherson it doesn't take a freaking rocket scientist to figure out that people DO NOT video tape things unless they're looking to pick a fight. Furthermore - if his sole interest was protecting his wife that video wouldn't have ended up on the internet.

Get a clue.

emily0829

cruelsound:

emily0829:

cruelsound:

emily0829:

Lilena:

Jennis22:

I think everyone has a right to their opinion and a right to express their opinion. But the line needs to be drawn at harassing people who are already in emotional turmoil. That man had every right to go out there and tell them they are basically dirt in his eyes. I honestly wish more people would do the same thing.

 

I agree, I just wish that him telling them why he was there, and their situation it would make those people think twice before they scream those hurtful words at people when they have NO idea whats going on in someones life.

Like I said ppl need support NOT shame.

Support is great when it's something worthy of being supported. But, much like a friend of a friend who has tried to befriend me many times who has had 5 abortions because she uses it as a form of birth control, doesn't get support in my book.

I'm not saying it's right of the protestors to judge whatsoever, or even be out there picketing, but not every case seems to be a medical condition, or a awfully difficult and heartbreaking decision that a family had to make in response to unimaginable news.

So, for someone like me who also had to make the same decision but for different reasons, I deserve to be judged? And not supported?  

Oh, I get it. Because of the circumstances,  it wasn't a difficult, life-changing decision for me to make. Love it.

If it wasn't a difficult decision for you to make, why would you need an abundance of support in the first place?

Wait, when did I say anything about it not being a difficult decision for me to make? You implied that from your post, which is what I put in bold.

As for the rest of what I said, it's called sarcasm. Again, in response to what you posted.

I read that wrong, so I apologize. I don't know your story personally, so it was wrong of me to add you to my generaization about this girl that I HAVE spoken to before who has clearly stated that the decision wasn't difficult for her, that she "just keeps getting pregnant! haha!"

As I said before, I feel lucky that I've never been faced with making that decision-- for a medical reason, or otherwise.

drpayne

iris427:

Lilena:

I promise you I agree with you 100%. While I am actually prolife (for myself I guess) but I would never tell another women what she can and cant do with her body, nor would I look down on someone how has to make that decision.

 

It sounds like you are pro-choice then.  Being pro-choice means you think that other women should get to make that choice for themselves.  It doesn't mean that you would necessarily have an abortion yourself or that you want other people to have abortions. 

 

This.  

 

hf08

aidiasullivan:

GreenBride624:

ambrandau2:

aidiasullivan:

I think to continue a pregnancy when you know the child is not going to live is just disgusting. If people think it should be left in gods hands and no one should interfere, then I suppose the same logic would apply if their child was dying? No medicine, its in gods hands?

I disagree. I think it's personal, and heartwrenching, and something no one can imagine until they are in that position.

We didn't go forward, because the potential pain for our child was too great for us to bear. But that was what seemed right to us.

No one has any right to judge the decisions a parent makes in these circumstances. Whatever those decisions might be. Those parents should simply be afforded any and all love and support that can be given to them.

There is no "right" answer. There is only "right for you."

I'm sorry for what you have gone through and I'm sorry you had to read that ignorant post! 

Excuse you, but my post was not ignorant. To move forward with a pregnancy, to allow a child that can not live to further develop and to increase its ability to feel pain and unhappiness is rotton and inhumane.

Do you realize you are doing the same thing that you are condemning these protesters for doing????   You keep saying over and over again that you think it is despicable to judge someone or make them feel more worse about a horrible decision they are having to make.  Yet, you are doing EXACTLY that with these comments!  What do you think these comments would do to someone who, under similar circumstances, may have chosen to continue their pregnancy???  If you really believe in supporting those in difficult situations, please take this post down.

EDITED: OP, I am sorry I just realized this was not your quote, but please see how hurtful this discussion is gettting and remove it. 

Sheas

This is not a very good post to put on a tri board.  Not that everything should be like living in Candy Land... but still not cool.

You knew this would open the pro-life/pro-choice debate, otherwise you wouldn't have said it in your OP. 

 

HolliEllison

Sheas:

This is not a very good post to put on a tri board.  Not that everything should be like living in Candy Land... but still not cool.

You knew this would open the pro-life/pro-choice debate, otherwise you wouldn't have said it in your OP. 

 

HolliEllison

Sheas:

This is not a very good post to put on a tri board.  Not that everything should be like living in Candy Land... but still not cool.

You knew this would open the pro-life/pro-choice debate, otherwise you wouldn't have said it in your OP. 

 

This.

HolliEllison

Sheas:

This is not a very good post to put on a tri board.  Not that everything should be like living in Candy Land... but still not cool.

You knew this would open the pro-life/pro-choice debate, otherwise you wouldn't have said it in your OP. 

 

This.

andrea922

When we wished upon a star...:

aidiasullivan:

When we wished upon a star...:

I don't think there's anything honorable about this man...People don't bring video cameras with them unless they're hoping to instigate something. He wasn't protecting his wife - he was picking a fight. He has his beliefs and they have theirs...

He mentioned at the beginning of the video that he and his wife had experienced a "fetal demise" (which I went through during my first pregnancy). I don't know of a single doctor's office that would send a paitent to an abortion clinic to perform a d&c for a miscarriage.

I'm calling bullsh*t on this one.

 

Every cell phone I have had in the last 5 years has had a video camera.

It wasn't an "abortion" clinic. It's a womens health clinic and there are many reasons to go there.

You need to get smarter.

Wow Bitchy Mc.Bitcherson it doesn't take a freaking rocket scientist to figure out that people DO NOT video tape things unless they're looking to pick a fight. Furthermore - if his sole interest was protecting his wife that video wouldn't have ended up on the internet.

Get a clue.

He was trying to make the women feel as uncomfortable as they make the people who enter the women's clinic feel. I don't think he did anything wrong videotaping it. And he put it on his blog, to document part of the pain that his wife had to endure on top of what she was already going through. 

 

HolliEllison

I understand what you're trying to say but it didn't seem that way to me. The protestors weren't video taping him and his wife..I just don't think it's appropriate. It seems to me that if someone's sole intent is to protect his wife he wouldn't have so publically displayed it. No matter what my personal views on the situation are, I didn't think it was necessary for him to turn it into a public fiasco. He obviously wanted the attention or it wouldn't be out on the internet.

Like I said, I've had a fetal demise and I have friends that have had to make the most difficult choices of their lives (one of my friends found out at her anatomy scan that the brain hadn't fully developed and wouldn't be able to live outside the womb and they had to make the painful and life changing choice of inducing labor at 20ish weeks along). While I understand the pain and difficulties associated with pregnancy loss - I don't think it's ever appropriate to intentionally instigate fights with others and display them all over the web.