Bumper sticker: Smile, you could have been aborted

[undeterred]

Yes, I really saw that bumper sticker yesterday. It tops the one I was stuck in traffic behind a couple weeks ago, which said something like- "pro choice is a lie- the baby doesn't get a choice"

Could I have been aborted? It was illegal until 1973 and I was born well before that so, I could not have been aborted legally, but I could have been aborted illegally.

Smile, you could have been illegally aborted. :hi:

In which case I wouldn't be stuck behind cars with inane bumper stickers.

[laylah]

1. I saw your earlier post

and felt twinges; however, per Roe v. Wade, a baby is a baby when it is viable, as in can survive outside the womb.

That said, I felt the first bumper sticker you shared was, for the lack of a better word, ignorant. My first reaction to this new one you have shared is...your point? Not YOUR point, but the point of the bumper sticker.

I am sure there were times my mom wished it had been legal in the 50's (although she loved all 6 of us and would have never done so) and I KNOW when my kids were little in the 80's, early 90's and doing the bs that girls do, I would tell them they were vying for the (what ever year) pro-abortion poster child! Thank Goddess they knew their mom's humor.

Jenn

[undeterred]

3. I guess it takes one to the ridiculous question

Would I be upset if I had never existed? If another sperm had been the better swimmer?
How can you even sweat a question like that?!

[Touchdown]

2. Yeah, but because of your puritanical and perverted folklore

part of me actually was.

[Clark2008]

6. Huh?

I'm not quite sure what you mean here.

But, it's intrigued me.

[Touchdown]

21. Just a snip here and there keeps you from playing with it.

...or to not be coy, circumcision.

[Blue_Tires]

4. eh....don't tempt me

:silly:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. My answer to the bumper sticker is

perhaps I was, in another lifetime. Perhaps it was the soul's choice to just come this far in the process of living on earth. Perhaps what really matters is your concern and compassion for others, no matter what they do. Perhaps judgement in and of itself simply puts veils between you and That which you are seeking.

[greekspeak]

7. Smile...coat hanger abortions are coming back to a country near you!

Smile...you are driving behind a hypocrite.

[Yollam]

8. I don't have a problem with such a sticker.

I was born in 1969, and was put up for adoption at birth. My mom was a fundie christian, so she couldn't consider abortion. I totally disagree with bans on abortion, but I also believe they should be restricted to the first trimester and a half - and I'm an atheist. I don't think abortion is the same as birth control, and there's nothing wrong with somebody telling you that abortion is a little more than just a lighthearted choice.


I eventually met my real mom, and although she's a nice person, I find it hard to relate to her because she is so drenched in fundie craziness. It's also weird to think that I'm alive in part because of that craziness (although abortion was illegal in my birth state in '69)


Anyway, I really don't care for "pro-choice" people attacking ANY expression of conscience or feeling on the topic of abortion. The one you mention is relatively innocuous and even a little thought-provoking. If the sticker you cite is inane, then so are the ones that say flippant things like "US out of my uterus!". The fact is that the abortion issue, aside from being a favorite GOP wedge, is a lot more complicated than the black and white bumpersticker slogans used by both sides.

[KAZ]

12. Yeah, well I do have a problem with it.

You know, it's not all about "you". It's about your "host", and how she decides to employ her body. Please do not take this as an attack on you, and your thoughtful post.

[Yollam]

13. Well, you're entitled to have a problem with it...

...but you DO realize that the sticker's owner is more than entitled to display that sticker, and it really is one of the more gentle messages I've seen. There are trucks driving around california with HUGE gruesome color pictures of dismembered fetuses next to a dime on them. Now THAT I have a problem with.

But not everyone thinks the same as you, or me. Big whoop.

[KAZ]

20. Yes, it is a big whoop.

I don't mean to argue with you, but I see this sticker as being the equivalent of "Smile, you're here because we've negated a woman's right throughout the country, and we're demonstrating our moral superiority to you choice-bound heathen via this sticker". Or "Smile, you could have been just a thought in a gay guys's mind". They are all similar, and I loathe anyone who would display such a sticker.

[OnionPatch]

9. I know someone who knows they could have been

aborted. The mother in question was in dire straights; Two kids already and her husband showing more and more signs of alcoholism. He was even starting to get violent. But the woman changed her mind at the last minute and didn't go through with the abortion. The "baby" is grown now, knows about her mother's predicament and hard choice but she is still pro-choice herself. She says any instance of chance could have meant that she was here or not, abortion aside. For example, if her mother had not had sex with her father on the night they did, she wouldn't have been here, either. I agree with her that I couldn't see that much difference.

[undeterred]

10. I just don't see the logic here as part of a good argument

I could have been in a car accident last week and become paralyzed.

I could have had a rough delivery and been born with mental retardation.

I could have eaten poison mushrooms and died.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Smile, you could be in Iraq. n/t

[AnnieBW]

14. That's Sick...

That is just plain sick. The bumper sticker, not your response, hon. Just another case of antis being ignorant jerks.

The other one I can't stand is "Choose Life - Your Mother Did". Yes, my mother did "choose life" for me by laying flat on her back for several months because she'd had a miscarriages! So, don't judge my circumstances with your stupid bumper stickers, morans.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

15. Well, see my family was poor, and the check my folks

wrote for the abortion bounced, and there has been a crazy fucking guy chasing me with a coat hanger ever since....


he almost caught me the other day, I had to jump off an esclator into a fountain at the mall to get away from him.

[undeterred]

19. Best answer to inanity!

:rofl:

[bleedingheart]

16. Smile - You could have been a Stain in your Dad's underwear..

bwahahahaha

[Coventina]

22. ROFL!!!

:rofl:

That one really got my tickle bone!
:D

[stepnw1f]

17. It's Too Bad We Can't Abort the Whole GOP

Because if we could, I'd suggest we do so immediately. I love having a choice, don't you?

[Dr Fate]

18. I really could have. I was adopted in 1971...

So what?

That possibility is not connected to families & women in the now.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

23. I doubt I'd miss myself.