Reasons for Abortion

November 17, 2004

Reasons for Abortion

Erin recently stopped by to visit to comment on a post I made this summer on John Kerry’s hypocritical stance on abortion. She volunteers at a Crisis Pregnancy Center and sees firsthand some of the issues women face.

I thought I’d do a little research into the reasons women get abortions. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, 49% of pregnancies among American women are unintended; 1/2 of these are terminated by abortion. 47% of these occur among the 7% of women who do not practice contraception. In 2000, that added up to 1.3 million abortions. The top 3 reasons given by women who had abortions are:

A baby would interfere with work, school, or other responsibilities (75%);
The woman could not afford to have a child (66%);
Did not want to be a single parent or having troubles with their husband or partner (50%).

There are overlaps between those categories, but at a minimum, 75% of all abortions are for convenience.

Here is my top three reasons for not having an abortion:

They become children.

Actually, I guess I only have one reason.

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7 responses to “Reasons for Abortion”

Courtney

November 17, 2004 at 8:36 am

It would be very nice instead of focusing so much on abortion we instead focused on the children walking around in our country today abused, hungry, and forgotten. Our CPS system is a cruel joke. Everyone gets so up in arms about abortion, where’s the uproar about protecting our children after they are born?

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A.M.M.

November 17, 2004 at 9:27 am

Good point. However, that still doesn’t validate abortion.

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Sean

November 17, 2004 at 11:45 am

Murder = maltreatment?

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Courtney

November 17, 2004 at 2:05 pm

There are 2 issues. One, have birth control readily available to avoid unwanted pregnancies. Teach teenagers to practice abstinence and if they choose to have sex, then teach them effective birth control. Two, the women who do accidentally get pregnant, provide adequate support. Emotional, educational, whatever is required to mitigate the risks to the children.

Instead of focusing on what’s important and realistic and solving the problem, we argue about the results. And not everyone believes that abortion is murder.

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Stephen

November 17, 2004 at 7:12 pm

My thoughts for years has been just that Courtney, If we spend half the energy raising children to be responsable for their actions or to safe guard against being in trouble in the first place, we would not have as many problems to deal with. This is not tring to avoid the subject of abortion nor is it trying to justify it. Just wanted to put preventitive measure closer to the front.

P.S. can we have a spell checker, I suxxers at it!

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Erin

November 17, 2004 at 8:28 pm

So are you saying, Courtney, that we should just go ahead and kill them off just incase they grow up to be abused or hungry? I know I will never get you to see my point because I will never see yours, I just happend to end up in that very comment site. I was searching for a FAQ site about pregnancy, because I am currently pregnant, and when I ended up there I just had add my comments. Like I said before it is a very touchy subject for me, but I wasn’t trying to stir up any harsh feelings.:cool:

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A.M.M.

November 18, 2004 at 8:24 am

“So are you saying, Courtney, that we should just go ahead and kill them off just incase they grow up to be abused or hungry?”

No, Erin, I’m fairly certain that wasn’t really her point. Stephan rephrased it quite nicely in his comment.

Still, it would be nice for that 7% of women who cause the 47% of abortions to at least use contraception. Preventing an unwanted pregnancy is a whole lot better that having an abortion, and it would cut back a lot on the arguements.

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