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45% will have an abortion? I don't think almost half the women I know will have an abortion or have had one. That seems a bit high. I only know maybe one or two women who have had one.
That probably depends on your age. I don't know about the statistic. I do know more women have had abortions than men know about. Many women have an abortion early in the pregnancy and never tell the man.
Asking a woman if she's had an abortion is like asking a man if he's ever been unfaithful to his wife. They lie, so the statistics are always skewed.
I want to know if people would be willing to fund (via tax money) sex education classes and free birth control. No one has touched that topic as of yet.
Then you must be a teenager and have not been reading the CD threads on abortion.
The religious, and the rightwing nuts want no abortions, not even the morning after pill, yet they want to defund Planned Parenthood, which provides easy access to birth control which would PREVENT unwanted pregnancy.
There is no logic to the right wingnut and religouscrats.
I don't think free bc and more sex ed will stop abortions. It's become common to have casual sex with many people so obviously more pregnancies are going to result. Unless people change their views on that this is just the norm now.
I've been amazed at how ignorant people are about sex and birth control. I say this in good spirit, but they truly don't know a lot about it. If we had mandatory sex education (yearly even) and perhaps even a school nurse that supplied free birth control, maybe that would be a step in the right direction.
I'm Christian, but even I'm realistic. Human beings are going to have sex. We'll never be able to eliminate abortions (realistically), but it would be nice to educate people and help prevent women from having to go through with one because, whether pro-choice or pro-life, it's not something that is fun for a woman to have to endure. I don't wish abortion on any women, but I understand why it may have been necessary in their case.
To date, I haven't met one woman who was thrilled about having made the decision to terminate her pregnancy. I would say half of them are depressed and suffering and the other half are "fine", as in, they have told me they were initially sad, but "got over it".
To date, I haven't met one woman who was thrilled about having made the decision to terminate her pregnancy. I would say half of them are depressed and suffering and the other half are "fine", as in, they have told me they were initially sad, but "got over it".
I bet many are thrilled with whatever life they have now, including their children that they may not have had otherwise.
Nobody is going to tell you they are thilled. Like the other poster said, no man is going to tell you they are thrilled to be cheating on their wife either.
I've been amazed at how ignorant people are about sex and birth control. I say this in good spirit, but they truly don't know a lot about it. If we had mandatory sex education (yearly even) and perhaps even a school nurse that supplied free birth control, maybe that would be a step in the right direction.
I'm Christian, but even I'm realistic. Human beings are going to have sex. We'll never be able to eliminate abortions (realistically), but it would be nice to educate people and help prevent women from having to go through with one because, whether pro-choice or pro-life, it's not something that is fun for a woman to have to endure. I don't wish abortion on any women, but I understand why it may have been necessary in their case.
To date, I haven't met one woman who was thrilled about having made the decision to terminate her pregnancy. I would say half of them are depressed and suffering and the other half are "fine", as in, they have told me they were initially sad, but "got over it".
No one is thrilled about abortion. Are you for real. So how many do you know that had abortions? And you say half are suffering. So exactly how many? Why do you say half are depressed? Sorry not buying it. I don't know anyone who is depressed who made this personal decision
I'm not hear to say that abortion causes depression for ALL women or not. I'm just saying that HALF of the women I know are still upset about their decision and the other half generally are not. I believe that you all may only know of women who aren't depressed at all. We don't all know the same people and I'm not anti-choice so hop the hell off the psycho train. I'm just stating that I simply wish it was something women didn't have to decide on and hope to educate our society and provide free birth control to prevent these kind of situations at a higher rate. I'm not being judgmental, so stop obsessing over like half a sentence of mine. I see both sides of the story, but I'm concentrating on what WE, as a society, can do to better things.
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