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That's absurd. Women simply don't choose to have late-term abortions, they are bonded with the fetus by then, and won't have an abortion unless it is medically necessary.


In the Know: Questions About Pregnancy, Contraception and Abortion


"15. When in pregnancy do most women have abortions?

• In the United States, nearly nine in 10 abortions occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and 56% occur in the first eight weeks. (30) "

Pregnancy IS the result of sex. And sex is a choice. And since you are all friggin tied up in "choice", what about THAT one. If a baby would ruin your life that much, buy a friggin vibrator.. And if you HAVE to have sex with a man, the outcome can be a baby. It's not a secret and has been the same for as long as humans have walked the earth. If you make the decision to have sex, and a baby will ruin your life, make sure you are on the pill and that you have at least the minimum intelligence to use a condom correctly.

While sexual intercourse IS a choice, it is a choice that people are driven to. We were created sexual creatures, and denying that is fighting nature.


It's also not a secret and has been the same for as long as humans have walked the earth that women have had abortions regardless of the risks to their lives. It's also not a secret and will remain the same as long as contraception is unreliable that women will continue to have abortions regardless of the risks. Keeping abortion legal at least minimizes the risks.

And as I have said many times, I agree with you there. That's why I recommend the "shame" tactic. Mother kills fetus, mother gets shamed. Still not fair, but abortion is a "F"'d up situation from the start.

I think it's time to shift the blame/shame load from women to men. Women have carried that load long enough, let men pick up the slack. Let men be ostracized by society for causing an unwed pregnancy.

Got no problem with having a man be shamed as well. I'm equal opportunity on that one. But then women would open the door to men having say on whether the abortion happens in the first place. I mean, if you want to share responsibility, and women that refuse abortions want men to pay, shouldn't the man have a bit of an opinion on whether or not the product of his loins gets "offed"?

I truly believe that men ought to have the right as birth fathers to contest and stop an abortion, IF he is, as a result of that action, planning to take responsibility for the baby.

OhDear

So what your saying to me (without even knowing it apparently) is 10% of all abortions in the US are after the first trimester. And thats IF your statistics are not exagerated. What is 10% of 1.8 million. So we are talking close to 200,000 kids. Absurd?? Absurd is thinking there are 200,000 unborn kids that MUST medicaly be aborted. In America no less.

Grace, Grace, Grace, "late-term abortions" are 3rd trimester and they are medically indicated. 90% of abortions occur in the 1st trimester. A few elective abortions occur in the 2nd trimester for reasons such as the woman didn't know she was pregnant, she couldn't raise the money to pay for the abortion, medical reasons, etc. BTW, I believe your 1.8 million figure is a bit off, statistics I have seen estimate possibly as high as 1.3 million, but more likely less.