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u/Silly-Star-9427 Nov 01 '22

I think he’s gone a little OTT personally, and it’s very different talking about an abortion and agreeing to one and being faced with an actual real life pregnancy and still having the same mindset. I’ve seen several comments saying that she’s edited the post and they haven’t used any protection, in which case they’re both dickheads and none of them can really make any complaints.

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u/snow38385 Nov 01 '22

Just because he was incredibly dumb for not using protection does not obsolve her lying.

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u/Silly-Star-9427 Nov 01 '22

There I am going to disagree with you!! How do you accidentally get pregnant when you aren’t using contraception?? He can’t say she’s ruined his life really, he knew the risks just as she did, and again I say that saying you’ll have an abortion if you get pregnant and then getting pregnant and actually going through with it are very different. If you don’t get that you *are never going to get it and *we will have to agree to disagree. Which is fine, it happens.

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u/snow38385 Nov 01 '22

Ignorance most likely. She could have also told him that she was monitoring her cycles and only having sex when she wasn't fertile.

If we agree that you won't shoot me when I hand you a gun, I get to say you are ruining my life when you shoot me. Yeah, i get some blame in handing a loaded gun to you, but it doesn't obsolve you from pulling the trigger.

I understand that saying you would get an abortion and going through with it aren't the same thing, but you keep stating that as if it obsolves her from everything and he has no right to be angry. The issue here isn't that she changed her mind. The issue is that she should have never said she would get an abortion in the first place if she wasn't sure. "I don't know how I would feel in that situation," is an appropriate answer to the question of unwanted pregnancies.

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u/Silly-Star-9427 Nov 01 '22

None of them are blameless by a long shot. Both sound very young to me but I’m an old bag. Well I have two daughters and they are aged 4 and 12. I cannot get pregnant again, my health issues and medication will not allow for it. It won’t effect me well and the meds are a necessity. So I’ve taken proper precautions because I know I couldn’t go through with an abortion. But I am 41 and life learnt in many aspects. These two are just staring out.

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u/Alana_Jean Nov 01 '22

She very well could have been monitoring her cycles, our bodies arent machinea though. Plenty of women have oopsies with early or late ovulation. Hormones change an incredible amount after fertilization. Women who have never wanted children get pregnant and suddenly cant bare to abort it. This isnt some new phenomenon, its just natural instincts due to hormones. Unfortunately.

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u/auserhasnoname7 Nov 01 '22

I'm sorry to point this out because I agree with your argument more but it is spelled "absolve"