Spanking

[BJean 16]

Well said, Kat!

To answer the question though, you are darned right that I am pro-choice and anti-spanking. I honestly believe that I value life more than most people. I believe that babies are far too important than to treat them like a commodity, passed from one parent to another. I am not anti-adoption, but I sure wouldn't encourage anyone to give their child up. I believe adoption can be a wonderful thing and I also believe that it can turn out quite badly. It should not be treated as a basis for a law that requires every woman to bear every child in each and every case without exception.

As for how it relates to spanking - it goes hand in hand as far as I'm concerned. The more informed and experienced I become in my life, the easier it is for me to understand these things.

[pattygreen 5]

you can't be pro choice AND value life. What a contradiction. If you felt that babies were so important, like you say, you wouldn't believe in abortion. (another contradiction)

[green 6]

Every child should be a wanted child. It is much less likely to be an abused child if it is wanted.

[gadgetlady 4]

Every child should be a wanted child. It is much less likely to be an abused child if it is wanted.

Statistics don't bear that out. Children who are abused are more often planned than not. And whether a child is planned at the time of conception or initially "wanted" doesn't necessarily mean he or she won't be wanted as he or she grows.

Furthermore, if abortion cured child abuse, we'd have no child abuse. Instead, child abuse has grown dramatically since the Supreme Court decided abortion can't be illegal. My opinion is that when we devalue life in the womb, we naturally don't hold it in esteem outside of the womb either.

[ImWithTheBand22 0]

wow i have no idea why this question is even on this site... i thought this thread was about .... like... getting spanked during sex and it maybe displacing the band... woah....

[Donna113 2]

wow i have no idea why this question is even on this site... i thought this thread was about .... like... getting spanked during sex and it maybe displacing the band... woah....

LOL - thanks for the levity, sometimes we all take ourselves too seriously!

Edited October 14, 2008 by Donna113

[pattygreen 5]

you are so informed. I love it!