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I see it as a reason why women need abortions and need control over their bodies. Because women are not always in the right place to have a child every moment of her life. Being in an abusive relationship and being pregnant could have put her life at risk.
Her reasons for abortions are perfectly reasonable, she was being abused, she hated herself, so that dumb as a box of hair woman actually made a good choice. She chose to terminate pregnancies she was in no way capable of managing in a responsible manner and no man anywhere, not the one who was beating her, not some guy writing bills, not some guy on a bench should be able to make that kind of decision for someone else not knowing each woman's personal situation in life.
It shows why women have to have control over her own body, there are so many forces always trying to take it away.
Does she feel bad about it, she obviously does and that's not a crime, women feel bad about giving their babies away for adoption, women feel bad about keeping their child, when you have feelings there is always regret and bad feelings about something you have done. Especially over something like abortion where so many people are running around calling it murder and beating you over the head with how you should feel bad and feel ashamed.
As for the whole heaven issue, big deal, Christians believe every soul worthy of heaven gets up there in the most perfect form that never ages or decays. They believe a soul is put into every fertilized egg. So, no one knows if souls are really real and if they are real when they enter a person. It's a philosophical discussion, not a scientific one.
