Originally Posted by
~invisible~girl~
No you weren't. No matter what the circumstances of your conception, you weren't meant to be aborted. When people have talked about rape and abuse as reasons abortion should stay legal, they're not saying that women in those situations should have abortions, only that they should have the choice to have an abortion. Your mum had that choice (whether it was legal or not where and when you were born), and she choose to keep you, and also to raise you herself rather than giving you up for adoption. No matter how it feels sometimes, your mum did to choose to carry you to term and to keep raise you herself -- she really did (and still does) want you. And it's important that she had that choice, because whether or not she wanted to get pregnant, she choose to keep you -- it wasn't an accident, and it wasn't against her will.
Thank you. I don't think you realise how much that means to me.
If it were me that got pregnant, well... I'm only 15. My
heart (as in, personally, feelings over abortion, how I love children, etc.) would say keep it. My
head (calculating the cost, the energy, the circumstances, the fact I'm still in school, influence on the relationship, etc.) then no, I wouldn't be able to keep it.
I'm neither pro-life or pro-choice. There's no hard and fast rule where you should or shouldn't have an abortion. There's so many factors to take into account.