Over here, we see an article that proves what most women know instinctively: Make what rules you like, the same choice will be made.
Abortion is not a choice any woman takes lightly, I promise you. Even a woman who never wants to have children does not undergo such a process without being incredibly sure that's the best answer. She may regret it after the fact, but there are always well-thought-out reasons why she makes that choice.
The way I look at it is that by keeping abortions legal (though, make no mistake, they are not easy to obtain) we are not telling anyone they WILL have one. We are simply not telling anyone that they WILL NOT. It is the path of least resistance, and the one which allows the most freedom of choice for the patient.
When abortions are banned, they do not stop. They are simply done underground, where the patient's safety is not assured or protected by any means. The same women that are willing to walk through that crowd of protesters outside the abortion clinic to get one are willing to go to a dark alley or basement with a friend who heard about this guy from a friend's friend to get the same abortion- by someone less qualified, and with much less to lose.
Abortions are rarely done for vanity or simple, selfish reasons. These are decisions made out of desperation.
Could I ever have one? No, and I never have. However, at fourteen years old, I carried the child of a man I didn't choose to sleep with. Did I want an abortion? No. I was a child myself, though, and honestly, now, can't imagine how I would have told my would-be 8 year old daughter that her daddy was a rapist. I wanted to have that little girl very much, and I will never forget her.
Had I not miscarried her, this may have been a decision I would have had to face. At fourteen years old, were abortions illegal (I never pressed charges), I may have lost my own life to a back alley abortionist, trying to do what I believed would be the right, responsible thing for that child.
I have no doubt this will raise eyebrows and arguments.
I really hope it raises some awareness, too, though.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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