Abortion

Why would we care? It's not like we're your friends or that we even know you.

The interesting thing about all this is that I really don't care whether or not any of you think that my baby looks like a baby or not, or indeed whether you agree that it is or it isn't.

I didn't post the pictures to "add substance to my argument".

I am very capable of adding substance to my argument without posting pictures thanks.

I posted them because I'm proud of them - and I wanted to share the rather exciting news that I'm having a son.

It is interesting to see what both sides make to this though....the pro-lifers are very supportive and congratulate me, whereas the pro-choicers are largely very insulting and have to resort to accusing me of "revolving my world around breeding".
(which, by the way, is laughable....do you see 15 children swarming around me? Would you say that all women with 2 children revolve their life around breeding? How many of you are only children I wonder?)

Quite frankly the insults don't bother me one bit. It's fairly amusing to see how one set of people can be so nice, and another set of people can be so rude.

It's fairly amusing to see how one set of people can be so nice, and another set of people can be so rude.

Then why should my posting photos enduce ANY sort of reaction from you, be it positive OR negative?

ETA: when you have good news to share you are so happy that you want to shout it out from the rooftops - or have you never had good news before?

I'm pro-choice, and I don't see how I've been insulting about it.

I don't feel the need to congratulate you on being pregnant because I have no idea who you are, and the fact that the persona somebody who I talk to on the internet adopts (and I'm not implying you're not who you say you are, I'm just making a point about the internet), is pregnant means very little to me.

But for what it's worth, if you want the thing and are happy about it's being inside you, good stuff...

it does show rather a lack of manners that you didn't.

I know Tufts ESPECIALLY wants to see them, so I thought I really HAD to post them

Because they’re polluting the thread.

I didn't ask you to congratulate me, nor am I bothered in the slightest that you didn't.

But, if we're looking at this objectively, it does show rather a lack of manners that you didn't.
Whether or not you know me is irrelevant. You are quite capable of typing hundreds of words to strangers every single day, yet it's too difficult for you to type the word "congratulations"?

If you dislike talking to strangers, why are you on a message board trying to change the opinion of strangers to your way of thinking?

anyway, like I said, it's no skin off my nose - you're right, you weren't actively insulting no.

you posted the pictures intending to use them in the debate.


Both of these suggest to me that it wasn't just excitement that prompted you to post the scan pics.

Xena it's great that you're having a baby and you're excited. But you posted the pictures intending to use them in the debate.




Both of these suggest to me that it wasn't just excitement that prompted you to post the scan pics.

It shows no such thing. I'm not on TSR to congratulate people.

Imagine that I'm in the pub that I work at (and the following story actually happened). A couple come up to the bar, we have a bit of banter about the rugby and the weather, I serve them their drinks, they pay for them and sit down. They then proceed to get out the woman's (who is pregnant) Ultrasound scans. The woman calls her mum/sister/best mate and tells her it's a girl. Do you expect me to go over and congratulate her?

The reason for posting the pics was indeed because I was happy about them - even more so once I found out the gender. It was very exciting.

The comments about Tufts and the collection of cells were
a) because he said they would make him vomit (so I couldn't resist a tiny dig there - it was a stupid thing for him to say in response to me saying I was going to post pics) and
b) if I had've put "baby" instead of "collection of cells" I would have had a zillion posts going "it's not a baby!" so I thought I'd have the first say on that.

Yes I was being a tad sarcastic but so what?

As I just said a moment ago anyway - people could have opted to use them constructively in the debate, but I guess that would have been too easy.

For another it amuses me that they somehow suggest emotion is meaningless, as if we all live our lives according to logic.

They were not addressing you, so no.

If you were in a group of mixed company, and somebody you didn't know particularly well addressed the entire group and said she was having a boy/or a girl, and passed around u/s scans, I would have thought it polite for you to have congratulated her.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8106841&postcount=1356 <-- there you go, someone using them constructively in a debate (although I admit they begin with emotional blackmail).

I'm glad you're so happy, really. I just think it's a shame you can't advocate a choice. As hard as it may be to believe it, us pro-choice people are happy that you chose to have your baby instead of abort it because that's what you wanted to do. But you're saying that other women should have no choice in the matter, and that there is only one option. It's not like pro-choice people go around saying everyone should abort their baby, whereas pro-lifers say everyone should keep it.

#nopity#

lol its amusing how you care so much

Accept the non-acknowledgement of your grainy photos and let it drop. As Seoid said, you're not going to achieve anything.