Quote Originally Posted by goldensmom View Post
I did. I very much looked forward to the next few months when I found that I was pregnant. I thought about my baby's birth, rejoiced in the life developing within me, planned for nourishing him, guiding and teaching him and I mourned my baby’s death through miscarriage. Still do.
Of course it depends on how long you were pregnant. I wasn't 5 minutes pregnant, and what I mourned was the delay in actually having a baby. If I miscarried 5 or 6 months into a pregnancy, I too would have mourned the loss of the baby. I am sorry for your loss.

I did go on to have two healthy kids, (the miscarriage actually came between the two) who are adults now, and I so enjoyed being a parent, and considered it the best thing I ever did, that I celebrate everyday my kids opportunity to CHOOSE if they want to become a parent.

I don't know how old some supporters of this here are, but I can say, nothing freed women more than birth control, then the ability to end an unwanted pregnancy. So many young people don't realize how completely women were held prisoner to their biology before these two freedoms. They have so much choice and freedoms now days, they don't understand how just a few decades ago, we had no choice. Unless you chose to live a celibate, loveless life, you were a victim of your sex, and the babies came, one after the other, without consideration to your ability, income, or situation. Or even whether you wanted kids or not. How many people on this forum alone are childless by choice. Not really a choice before birth control and safe, legal abortion.
And now, this legislation in Wisconsin would take that private choice from them. And very bluntly implies that women are not smart enough to make this decision.
Birth control fails sometimes.

I can just picture IL having to answer to some legislature who says she is too stupid to know her own mind in this!
"Are you sure IL? Really really sure? Cause, let me just ram this probe up your lady parts and tell you what you're missing! It's gonna happen anyway so you might as well relax and enjoy it" **

**I pick IL here as example cause I can't think of anyone else here MORE sure of herself and her choices.
***this isn't all in answer to goldensmom, but just thoughts in general.