Option C. You stated you wanted them at the post office, I tried to say I wanted them retroactive. Let’s try it like this, “Generic Person X (I looked & didn’t see a user with that name), you are an a-hole, therefore, we are retroactively aborting you; you no longer exist.”
You’re supposed to be glad she didn’t have a choice (according to the bumper sticker).
I neither believe in God nor am I “pro-life” in the way the bumper stick uses the phrase yet I have kids. Who should they thank? Oh, wait, they should thank their mom and me. We raised them and we don’t even get an eternal reward out of it.
The thing is, having me pretty much ruined her life. I don’t really know what she felt but I know how different things would be.
My mom had one before I was born. (And before it was legal). Because she didn’t have to be a teenage unwed mother, she got to go to college, have a career, meet my dad, and have two kids in her thirties. If my mother was “pro life” I wouldn’t exist.
(And she is, to this day, about as vocally pro-choice as you can get.)
Yes, my two children should be very happy abortion was available when their mother got pregnant earlier in life. If she had those two children, there is no way we would have had two more. Not sure how to put that on a bumper sticker though.
I was born in 1961 so my mom didn’t really have much of a choice, though the 3 of us popped out [at 2 year intervals] after my mom had a string of 4 or 5 miscarriages. Obviously given the spacing, we were more or less planned in some manner. I do know each of us were the result of complete bed rest during pregnancy as I remember Mom and Dad discussing how they got maids to do all the housework, and a nanny to take care of us.
Okay, thanks:) Didn’t want to keep it going but wasn’t following clearly.
Thumbs up for retroactive abortions!
My mother is in her 209th trimester with me. I’m not going without a fight!
Funny you should say that, as the sign was at a big dairy farm! Thanks for the inadvertent (?) giggle moment 
Mine did the same after she was raped in the 1960’s. My mom was very pro-choice. She was also quite determined to make sure that I had a good grounding in birth control methods and enough self esteem to only date men who were worthy of fathering my kids. So yeah fuck the bumper sticker.
One of my nephews was the product of a “teenage accident” between my brother & his then-girlfriend. My very Catholic mother & aunt were very fond of bringing up the point that “If [brother] and [girlfriend] had an abortion, then [nephew] would never have been born. So everyone in the family ought to be pro-life”
Finally, one day after hearing them smugly make that argument for the umpteenth time I retorted “And I guess we should all be glad that [brother] did NOT wait to til he was married to have sex and that he knocked up his teenage girlfriend!”
“Whaa-a-aat???” my mother & aunt cried indignantly.
“If [brother] and his girlfriend had both waited until they were married to have sex, then [nephew] wouldn’t be here, because there is no way they would’ve ended up getting married. And [nephew] would not be here, same as if they had an abortion.”
“That is entirely beside the point! I don’t want to discuss that!” my mother angrily said.
“No it isn’t. It is exactly the same argument you are trying to make!”
At that point, the conversation was immediately dropped and never brought up again.
At a wedding, one of the people with whom I was seated was a cousin of mine who’s sometimes identified as “the hepatitis” when people can’t identify him by name. Because, you know, his not-yet-mom was in the fourth month of having hepatitis when she got married: that’s why she had so many troubles with food and why she couldn’t drink, never mind that most cases of hepatitis do not last nine months or produce a healthy baby boy. The whole table was relatives.
At one point, another one dumped her ass onto an unoccupied chair and told us she’d been having an argument about abortion, and told him “aren’t you happy that your mother didn’t abort you?” “
I’m not going to complain about being alive but - you remember I have a law degree, right? There isn’t any law of God or Man that makes an unborn child responsible for his idiot of a mother marrying his drunkard of a father. I sure can’t say I’m glad to have grown up in that bloody mess of a house.”
The relative who’d brought up the subject looked for agreement around the table but discovered that the one people agreed with was him…
I had the correlary pulled on me once: Aren’t you glad you weren’t aborted? My response was that if I had been, I wouldn’t be here to worry about it. The argument only works in hindsight.
Every time we see such a bumper sticker, Mom will remind us that she was pro-choice and remained so.
I often tell people “If only Mom had an abortion, we’d all be much happier.”
I also enjoy calling Mom on my birthday and saying in my most sarcastic tones “Thank you SO much for giving me life! I’ve enjoyed it so much this far!”
I know I was wanted, because my mom is pro-choice.
There needs to be a bumper sticker that says that.
Roseanne explained to DJ that he was a surprise rather than an accident. She said accidents are things you wish hadn’t happened. Surprises are things you’re glad they did.
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.”
Exactly.
My mom actually tried to abort me by swallowing some abortifacient obtained from some back alley quack in 1957. She had second thoughts and apparently barfed it up. I’m two years younger than my closest sibling after a string of four kids in less than 4 years.
Which reminds me, I gotta ask my aunt about that some time as she has told me some pretty bizarre stories about my family.
It was a pretty WTF moment when my mom told me that because seriously, some things are better left unstated. Nevertheless, it didn’t bother me a bit, and if she succeeded, I wouldn’t be here to speculate about it and maybe my siblings would have had a better life due to more resources for the rest of them!
I’m as pro-choice as they come!
I have no idea what my parents opinion is about abortions, though they did work peripherally in the medical profession for most of their lives so I hope it was an enlightened and well-reasoned view.
My Mother wanted to have four kids, two of each, and by a fortuitous coincidence that is what she had. None of my sisters, nor my brother’s partner, have had abortions, as far as I have been made aware.
I don’t know if any conclusions can be drawn from those facts on what their principles are.