<p>^ You’ve been raped? That’s horrible. :ll</p>
<p>OTOH, IIRC from biology, the mother’s immune system has to be modified so that it doesn’t essentially reject the fetus, which is recognized as a foreign entity. It wouldn’t really be accurate to describe it as part of the mother, yet it has to be something.</p>
<p>A toddler isn’t a parasite (as per a fetus) because it can simply live under someone ELSE’S care - it’s not mother specific. You can’t transplant a fetus from one mother to another (er, as far as I know). Adoption is a “great” option except for the millions of kids in foster care.</p>
<p>The first problem here is preventing unwanted pregnancies. I would say the majority of them are preventable. We need to work above all on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies significantly. Then, I firmly believe that the women who come across an unwanted pregnancy despite appropriate measures should have a choice as to what happens to their bodies. They have the right to control what happens to them.</p>
<p>I’m a boy so I’d be stunned if I got pregnant.</p>
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<p>You can transplant an embryo.</p>
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Yes, they would search out food and even search out a balanced diet (apparently). E.g., if they were left alone and wandered out to the backyard, they would eat snails.</p>
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Well, that’s something I didn’t know. My mom use to tell me, babies eat their poop all the time, if left on their own devices. Now I know why.</p>
<p>Babies might, but any three year old of normal development and intelligence would never eat its own fecal matter. Or fecal matter in general. Kids can often read and write by the age of three. They know not to eat feces.</p>
<p>One of my friends was often left alone by his mother from the time he was a toddler until when he was about 6. He would get food, as best he could, for both himself and his sister. Children are not as incapable as they are often currently imagined to be by the American public.</p>
<p>Once capable of opening a refrigerator door, most children abandon the snails.</p>
<p>Freak out since I’ve never had sex with my boyfriend and I don’t remember ever drinking anything to cause me to do such a thing.</p>
<p>For a while my (senior guy) friends and I joked about getting me pregnant some way so I could marry my boyfriend who is probably going to MIT, Johns Hopkins, or Harvard and use the family thing to get me in since my grades are probably the worst out of all of their’s. We’re the super nerd group though so that plan kind of fell through. :)</p>
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<p>Me too. Think of all the money you could make…</p>
<p>^Bahahaha!</p>
<p>The pregnancy test was negative. WOOHOO!</p>
<p>ABORTABORTABORT.</p>
<p>thank goodness for birth control.</p>
<p>to answer the thread…if I got pregnant, I would have an abortion…I have way too much of a future to give up</p>
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<p>Or change rather, unless you have some condition that makes pregnancy a death sentence.</p>
<p>^a pregnancy would essentially make college and a social life impossible…that’s way too much to give up for me</p>
<p>it would be a difficult choice, but I would make it</p>
<p>but I do everything in my power to make sure i never have to make that choice</p>
<p>If I was going to have sex… two words: BIRTH CONTROL. Why can’t people just get with it? Honestly, it is that hard to buy condoms or go to planned parenthood. If you are mature enough to have sex, I’m sure you can mange to do one of those two things.</p>
<p>Anyway: If I had an unplanned pregnancy, I would definitely get checked out and make some serious money because I’d be the next Virgin Mary.</p>
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<p>Because birth control always works… (if it did, I wouldn’t be here). One of my good friends had a birth control implant and made her bf use condoms… she’s due in about a month.</p>
<p>ETA: Rocket, I highly suggest semi-permanent birth control. Abortions are more expensive (financially and emotionally) than things like NuvaRing (sp?).</p>
<p>Have the guy pull out.</p>
<p>I’ve had sex a couple hundred times. I’m still babyless. :D</p>