# Thank God your mother was pro life. How would you know? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305 "2013-03-07T17:58:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/61 "2013-03-10T16:24:23Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > Why do pro life people not demand abstaining from intercourse as the only way to prevent pregnancy? A vocal contingent do. ---
**Author:** ![Renifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Renifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renifer)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/62 "2013-03-11T04:01:08Z")
My mother’s pro-choice. Pro-choice does **not** mean every pregnancy has to be aborted. ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Pumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Ms.Pumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Pumpkin)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/63 "2013-03-11T07:53:29Z")
I’m fairly certain my parents were pro-life, both being devoutly catholic. I was a later - in - life “surprise” baby, and though I am (usually) glad to be alive, I can’t help think that abortion would have been a better choice had they believed in it, due to health and financial issues. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/64 "2013-03-11T14:05:47Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > I think abortions should be available at the post office So you’re in favor of mandatory waiting periods? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/65 "2013-03-11T14:23:28Z")
> [@LeeshaJoy](#): > > Unless it’s being born to, say, a lesbian who was raped but is living with a female partner, in which case the baby should be immediately adopted out to a “real” family. (This was an anecdote mentioned in another abortion thread, can’t remember which one.) That happened to a friend of my sister the lesbian. After she decided to have the baby and raise it with her long-time partner, I told her to ask some “pro-life’ (actually, anti-abortion protestors) what she should do. That was all of their resposnes --give it to a “real” family. Pro-life people believe in adoption, but only to the 'right” people. One really radical protestor actually told me that gay adoption is “child abuse.” To get back on topic, my mother absolutely hated me, and would definitely aborted me had it been legal in 1954. After both my parents died, I realized via blood types that my legal father could not have been my biological father. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/66 "2013-03-11T15:06:39Z")
How many people are here today because their mothers had previous abortions? And how many babies have been aborted because their mothers were forced into giving birth and then giving up their baby, only to be so traumatized by the experience that they would never give birth again? The mind boggles. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/67 "2013-03-12T18:17:57Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > So you’re in favor of mandatory waiting periods? atleast 2, no more than 6, in some cases as many as 8, but never 10. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/68 "2013-03-12T19:14:24Z")
My mother would say now that she is anti-abortion, but we’ve talked about it and I know that she considered aborting me. This was post-roe and she was a single mom. I’m glad she decided to keep me but would have understood any woman choosing abortion in her circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/69 "2013-03-12T19:57:40Z")
To hear the anti-aborts tell it, pro-choice women have an abortion every fucking time they get pregnant, and never choose to give birth. And remember, the only reason you white people are white is because your ancestors did not believe in miscegenation :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/70 "2013-03-12T23:11:43Z")
I am the product of two teenagers humping wildly 47 years ago. I’m pro choice. Very much pro choice. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/71 "2013-03-13T00:32:14Z")
Another person here with a pro-choice mother who had at least one abortion. > [@Marley23](#): > > I think the real sentiment behind this phrase might be “you should thank God _my_ mother was pro-life because otherwise you wouldn’t have wonderful me.” Funny thing is, that doesn’t even work on its own terms given how “pro-life” people are notorious for getting abortions when they want one. “The only moral abortion is my abortion”. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/72 "2013-03-13T00:55:49Z")
> [@tenacious\_j](#): > > Stop me if we have done this one, but I saw the sign again yesterday. “Thank God your mother was pro life!”. Um, what? Everyone who has a baby is pro life now? News to me. How bout you? Did you know that? Mom was actually very, very pro-choice and thought the pro-life people where dangerous nutballs. The fact she had four children of her own in no way contradicted her viewpoint. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/73 "2013-03-13T00:57:48Z")
Yes some folks forget the “choice” part in pro-choice, means sometime you choose to have the kid. ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/74 "2013-03-13T02:16:51Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Yes some folks forget the “choice” part in pro-choice, means sometime you choose to have the kid. Anyone who thinks children should be a consequence for inappropriate sexual behavior presumably finds the idea of having a child so repellent that no one would do it voluntarily. ---
**Author:** ![Nerdessence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Nerdessence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nerdessence)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/75 "2013-03-13T11:08:57Z")
My mother-in-law has a popular bumper sticker around here: CHOOSY MOMS CHOOSE LIFE! The first time we saw it my husband said, “If they hadn’t chosen life, they wouldn’t be mothers, so what’s the point?” Unless it’s anti-infanticide. Given how my nephew and nieces behave, that might be closer to the mark. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/76 "2013-03-13T15:19:14Z")
> [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](#): > > Anyone who thinks children should be a consequence for inappropriate sexual behavior presumably finds the idea of having a child so repellent that no one would do it voluntarily. Which should make it difficult for those same people to argue that life is sacred. _Should_ make it difficult, but doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305/77 "2013-03-14T11:33:40Z")
> [@tenacious\_j](#): > > Stop me if we have done this one, but I saw the sign again yesterday. “Thank God your mother was pro life!”. Um, what? Everyone who has a baby is pro life now? News to me. How bout you? Did you know that? There are many mothers who were not Pro-life, just taught that Birth Control was a sin, had children they didn’t want, neglected, or abused them. Some even killed their children or abandoned them. I find it rather strange that some people who call them selves pro-life once a child is born do not want to pay the taxes necessary to support or care for the Children to adulthood. To me they are just pro\_birth and want to force their beliefs on someone else. Then one hears the complaints of so many poor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-your-mother-was-pro-life-how-would-you-know/652305.md?page=3)