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To: tejek who wrote (164367)	3/15/2003 10:49:10 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) of 1573115

tejek, re However, before that legal requirement, men knocked up women and didn't always "do the right thing" As a 16 year old I "knocked" up my 15 year old girlfriend. We were both pretty clueless regarding birth control. Lucky for me she decided we were too young to have and support children and suggested we get an abortion. I paid for the abortion, $225 to a 16 year old was a fortune. We never had to inform our parents and Oregon had a law barring the hospital from informing them. If someone would have told us to get married I would have done it and hers and my lives would be so much different than they are today. We were in love or at least we thought we were. We stayed together until I left for college two years later. I remember she told me of all the women she met at the clinic I was the only one who's boyfriend was with them and supporting them during their operations. Several of the girls didn't really have boyfriends anyway, they got pregnant from one night stands. I gave her a milkshake in the parking lot after the operation and she threw up all over my dad's car. It was a tough emotional day - but we were sure we were doing the right thing. The circumstances real people find themselves in are so different from the TV story of man screws woman and runs away. I really come down hard on the personal choice side regarding abortion - others should just stay the hell out of other peoples lives. If a women has the legal choice to abort or have a child without the fathers permission, she should be responsible for the financial burden in my opinion - it's a matter of getting the liberty and the responsibility in one package. I was angry at those fathers/partners that weren't involved. They probably never intended for those women to get pregnant but they could have at least provided assistance for the abortion. Making them pay for a child no one wanted is a bit over the top. PS: I can say now that I'm married and have twin 9 year old girls, I do often wonder what it would be like to have that child we aborted. It would be nice to have an older child of 26, perhaps a son. Some choices you make for a lifetime.

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