# Have You Ever Aborted Your or Your Partner's Fetus **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 5, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796 "2011-05-05T03:16:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/21 "2011-05-05T04:11:21Z")
> [@YaraMateo](#): > > Just get a knitting needle. 😉 > > AbFab fan here. hehe Sweetie sweetie sweetie! ---
**Author:** ![YaraMateo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58f4c7/32.png) [@YaraMateo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaraMateo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/22 "2011-05-05T04:21:14Z")
> [@Sierra\_Indigo](#): > > Sweetie sweetie sweetie! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/23 "2011-05-05T04:31:08Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Have you ever had your or your (if the case, then) partner’s fetus aborted? > > Multiple Choices are allowed. What do you plan to do with your list of morally acceptable/morally reprehensible Dopers? (note I didn’t ask what you might do with morally gray Dopers, as I’ve a feeling morally gray areas are disabled in the black and white world of Huangdi) I suspect abortish Dopers will land on your ignore list. Yes? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/24 "2011-05-05T04:37:23Z")
Threads like this make me want to run right out and have an abortion – and I’m not even pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/25 "2011-05-05T04:43:43Z")
Get pregnant just so you can have an abortion, then you’ll get right on his shit list. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/26 "2011-05-05T04:44:37Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Threads like this make me want to run right out and have an abortion – and I’m not even pregnant. Yeah? Threads like this make me want to transgender, get pregnant, _then_ abort. Top that! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/27 "2011-05-05T05:04:31Z")
Why all the abuse? Isn’t it kind of “threadshitting”? The only thing wrong with the thread is that the OP doesn’t explicitly point out that it’s a public poll - though **WhyNot** takes care of that in the very first post. If you don’t like the question or the way **Qin** asked it, don’t answer it. Some people, on the other hand, might want to share their stories - not unreasonable, as some famous people have been quite public about having had abortions. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/28 "2011-05-05T05:15:32Z")
Yes, I have personally aborted all my partners’ fetuses, multiple times, and I can’t wait to abort another. I try not to take many of your threads too seriously as sometimes it seems as though you’re asking posters to do your homework for you, but **Curtis** , seriously, what the heck, man? Is abortion a topic you’re actually this consumed with? If so, you’re going to be a miserable adult. Take some advice kiddo and get out and have some fun, meet a girl or two, make some friends. Get your parents to buy you a dirt bike for goodness sake and let someone else have the weight of the world for a while. In the blink of an eye you’re going to be 30, and you’ll never forgive yourself if you look back and realize you wasted what could have been the most fun years of your life. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/29 "2011-05-05T05:22:36Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > Why all the abuse? Isn’t it kind of “threadshitting”? The only thing wrong with the thread is that the OP doesn’t explicitly point out that it’s a public poll - though **WhyNot** takes care of that in the very first post. > > If you don’t like the question or the way **Qin** asked it, don’t answer it. Some people, on the other hand, might want to share their stories - not unreasonable, as some famous people have been quite public about having had abortions. Then he could have asked people to share their stories instead of taking a poll. That way those who posted could decide what they were revealing publicly. Putting up a public poll is horrendous. He had no idea that **WhyNot** would put up that post, and many might vote without reading past the OP. This is an indication of how much thought he put into this before posting. Starting this thread was ‘forumshitting’. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/30 "2011-05-05T05:30:03Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > > [@Guinastasia](#): > > > > Threads like this make me want to run right out and have an abortion – and I’m not even pregnant. > > Yeah? Threads like this make me want to transgender, get pregnant, _then_ abort. Top that! 😛 Threads like this make me want to fetusize myself, climb back in the womb, and abort _myself!_ How’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/31 "2011-05-05T05:37:49Z")
> [@Sierra\_Indigo](#): > > Sweetie sweetie sweetie! Grrr. Thanks for putting that Pet Shop Boys song in my head. You’re aaaaaaaaabsolutely faaaaaabu …augh! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/32 "2011-05-05T06:03:17Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > Why all the abuse? Isn’t it kind of “threadshitting”? The only thing wrong with the thread is that the OP doesn’t explicitly point out that it’s a public poll - though **WhyNot** takes care of that in the very first post. > > If you don’t like the question or the way **Qin** asked it, don’t answer it. Some people, on the other hand, might want to share their stories - not unreasonable, as some famous people have been quite public about having had abortions. The OP has a pattern of asking questions in a very insensitive way, and if multiple people keep telling him that he’s being offensive, maybe, just MAYBE, he’ll learn to think before he asks such things. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/33 "2011-05-05T07:45:18Z")
Yes, for other reasons (the foetus was already dead). ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/34 "2011-05-05T08:21:05Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Threads like this make me want to fetusize myself, climb back in the womb, and abort _myself!_ > How’s that? You made me giggle like a loon. ---
**Author:** ![Jake\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Jake\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake_Jones)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/35 "2011-05-05T08:25:59Z")
I haven’t personally aborted anything, as I’m not an MD or otherwise qualified to do so. A former partner had a zygote aborted that I believe was mine. It was aborted before it reached the size of an average prescription pill. Probably the size of a Bayer aspirin. Another time I was accused of being the biological donor to a zygote which became an embryo, but I wasn’t convinced. That pregnancy was also aborted, probably about the size of a grape. I have no remorse for either event. Fetus is a medical term that starts at ~9 weeks after fertilization and starts about at about the size of a golf ball after embryo stage. I will stress here that I don’t have a problem with abortion, pretty much ever. Third trimester gets a bit dodgy, but I still think that’s between the people involved. In summary, I think you’re the kind of person that gets off on the misery of other people, and I think you’re an asshole for it. You should learn a bit more about things that you pretend to curiously inquire about before you ask them. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/36 "2011-05-05T08:52:21Z")
I love that this thread about abortions has now included Absolutely Fabulous _and_ Pet Shop Boys. Can we get an ABBA singalong going, just for fun? _Friday night and the lights are loooooow_ ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/37 "2011-05-05T09:06:17Z")
Only when she wants people to park in the white zone. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/38 "2011-05-05T10:14:14Z")
I wear a hat made out of aborted lamb fetuses. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/39 "2011-05-05T11:31:07Z")
[Moderator Note]This is _not_ The BBQ Pit, so knock off the personal insults.[/Moderator Note] ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796/40 "2011-05-05T11:33:24Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > The OP has a pattern of asking questions in a very insensitive way, and if multiple people keep telling him that he’s being offensive, maybe, just MAYBE, he’ll learn to think before he asks such things. He’s complained that his parents don’t punish him enough. Does that make it _our_ job? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-aborted-your-or-your-partners-fetus/580796.md?page=3)