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In reply to the discussion: If a person is TRULY pro-life it shouldn't matter if a babies dad was a rapist [View all]nolabear
(41,932 posts)Let's say, for argument's sake, that you know that at some time in the future a person who doesn't yet exist will come into your life and ruin it, that they will cause you to have nightmares, flashbacks to the most humiliating and physically painful injury you have ever experienced, one that destroyed your ability to feel like you have a place among your family, friends, human beings as a whole. You will not be able to get away from this person. You must welcome him in, take care of his every need, and keep him close to you while your world comes apart. In fact, he is so disabled that he requires all your time and attention in order to survive. He may be suffering himself because of his disabilities, he may never be toilet trained but he will sexually mature. All of his bodily functions are yours to take care of. You don't get to be who you thought you could be. In fact you don't get to be much of anything except his caregiver, the one that everyone looks at with one primary thing in mind--you belong, in all ways, to him.
Now mind you, this person only exists as a bit of protoplasm, smaller and less functional than a snail, less aware than the fly circling your head. Left alone, and through no faultof its own, it will someday become your prison, forever.
Now, this may or may not happen. But the odds are not too bad that some form of it will. And they're not impossible that they will in all this manifestation. You have absolutely no way of knowing. All you do know is that once he's here, he's here for good.
If "life", the eventual breathing and biologically functioning of a human is the most important thing to you, open up your door and your heart and your life, and welcome him in. And come talk to me in a few years.