Ruraled55 Says:

While I support Elizabeth's right to speak her mind, she clearly has no idea what it is like to be in the position to have to make the heart wrenching choice of aborting one's child. I have been in the mental health field for over 30 years, and I have NEVER had a woman come to me for support not knowing exactly what was going on with her body and not knowing exactly what her choice would mean. But until one has been desperate, one cannot know what it means to be desperate. Thank you to all of the rest of the women on The View for your compassion. I hope you will use your considerable clout to support women's rights in this contentious age of right wing self-righteousness.

karisioux Says:

I think the Texas Law strikes to the heart of cruel & offensive. What other medical procedure is done in this way? What man face's such? When we choose to not have cancer removed, are we shown crying, balling people at a funeral? If we choose to have a procedure done that would keep us from having children...are we or our spouse walked through nursery's to see what we'll miss? So, knowing the answers are no, we know that this is just an attempt to be as cruel & mean as possible. Nothing less.

shaindel Says:

I, too, have gone through the decision process over 40 years ago. I know the angst, the anger, the agony of deciding what to do. I had just had my 1st child and I thought I was pregnant in 6 months. I wasn't ready, I was scared, and my husband reminded me that this was his child, too. After much crying and discussion, I chose to have the baby. That was the day I found out I wasn't pregnant.
Knowing what I went through, how I felt, and how emotionally taxing the experience was, I judge no one. I believe in a woman's right to decide the choices that are right for her.

Sarah131Pa Says:

Wow! The respect and calmness of their discussion blew me away. We gain so much more ground when we approach one another with respect for opinions. I think I have always known that, but seeing it played out today I believe it. Never before watched a discussion on abortion (with different opinions) end in continued eye contact, let alone hand holding. Brilliant!

grniss16 Says:

Groups of crack addicts in one room while children in diapers or naked in another room left to fend for themselves, children left with whoever is around, leading to abuse/rape and drug exposure, the rate of child abuse leading to death is higher than SIDS related deaths, Emotional Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Physical Abuse, Neglect.... the activists are there to scream No Abortions! But where are they when the kids are screaming HELP ME. Where are they when the children need someone to rescue them from the life of an unwanted child. Abortions are not good, they are not right but they are necessary until every single person takes sex seriously and contraception seriously.

I was the abused child and let me tell you that it is like a cancer that never goes away, festering inside you. I was a teenager having abortions, crying and ashamed but I knew that I could not do it, I could not have that child, I was not prepared to protect that child.
I have a happy and productive life and use my abuse as a learning experience but I do feel the ugliness of it down at the pit of my stomach when I hear unprepared parents who have given up on their children or harmed them.

When I left the hospital with my son, later in life, the nurse put me in the car with my successful husband and barely waved good-bye ... she put my child in the care of a healthy and happy family. I sat in the car and cried. I cried because I was scared that I wasn't going to do a good enough job, how did she assume I was good enough to be a mom? Mostly I cried for all of those babies put into cars with little thought on where that baby was going....was that baby going to be safe...was there information given to them about who to call if they change their mind and they don't want the baby or a number to call or address to go to if they felt unsafe?
Was someone going to check on those babies that are in high risk? Was that baby going to be protected? That is who I cry for, not the aborted unborn, but the born who have hell to pay.