Message #11369

[goldenearring]

Thought I needed to run for cover last night, but thank you for your comments, Robbie, Andrea, and Yankee.  That's what I meant that this is such a many-faceted topic.  There still are those women who shouldn't have one, I feel, because they get railroaded into having one by others.  Yet, when I hear of experiences such as Yankeestarbuck's, that's when my heart/thoughts/feelings get stretched into a flat sheet, and I can't say that there is one right answer.  I certainly am not God, and I hope that job NEVER becomes available!  



I laughed (to myself) at my friends and co-workers who were convinced that when Bush became president his first priority would be to overturn Roe v. Wade.  It amused me, because I don't think it is possible, and I don't think it is in the best interest of people in this country when there are so many "lookin' for love in all the wrong places," among other things that result in pregnancies.  I just wish that there wasn't an abortion industry out there that receives money for fetal by-products, because I know, and most thinking folks would have to agree, that where money is involved, there is less of a tendency to do what is in the best interest of the person who needs help/more information/more time/whatever.  I saw a pro-life brochure with a little girl on the cover, missing her right arm.  She was the victim of one of those partial birth abortions.  Seems the abortionist missed sucking her brains out, and got her arm, instead.  By the time they realized it, it was too late:  out of birth canal, and *then* she was considered human, I guess, and they couldn't kill her, because it would be murder.  (Well, what would it have been while she was still in the birth canal?!  That doesn't compute to ole linear-thinking me.)  Can you imagine the gut-wrenching turmoil that the mother (given that she has *any* kind of a conscience at all) would go through?  Did anybody tell her the risks involved, or did they just hope to be able to sell another fetus to wherever fetuses get sold.  (I've seen skin care products with human placenta in them, but I don't think I even want to know what they put unborn or "half-born?" babies into.)



I'm not a reincarnationist, Yankee, but your thought is lovely.  It gives one hope where one might otherwise hvae none.  (I'll spare you my spiritual view until someone else brings up that topic.)  I happen to believe that babies and children go to heaven and that those who were torn away from loving mothers for whatever reason will be in heaven to be raised by those mothers when it is their time to join them.  As for the others, I don't know who raises them, but I believe they go to heaven and are very well cared for.  And, I believe we won't know the answers to the great majority of our questions until we get to the other side of this "veil" where we can't see what's going to happen, but we just know that there is something more that's being kept from us in this life.



I truly hope that we can keep this type of discussion going, because, face it, this certainly isn't the kind of topic you can casually bring up at work or on the street, and there are very few people who are courageous enough to blurt out all their feelings and opinion without some degree of anonymity.  



I don't know about anybody else, but after having been in the administrative field for so long, closing in rapidly on 2 decades, after while it is just not all that exciting to talk about only administrative topics.  Office politics amuse me and, rarely, intrigue me, because there is the same set of personalities wherever you work.  They just appear in different roles in the companies where I've worked.  Right now I am fortunate enough to have found a cast of fellow characters that are set up to my liking.  Not that that couldn't change.  Fortunately, the other characters have it as good as I do or better, so they are happy to stay put for now, too.



I happen to be very pleased that there is a place on this website to go to let it all hang out, so to speak.  Right before I logged on here, I clicked on OC, and it is literally gurgling/gasping for breath, before it breaks in half and both halves plunge to the bottom of the WWW-ocean.  I will miss it, since it was my first experience with message boards, but perhaps all of the miscommunications that were on it will also be lost forever!  So, finally, in answer to your question that I took as a dare, DJCPS, yes, there are plenty of us with strong opinions out here!  And, Robbie, when I have time I will look up Former Prez Truman.  Can you recommend a book on him?  GE