Abortion? or many unwanted children filling up the earth?

Question

There are numerous clinics in the DFW area performing hundreds of abortions day after day. Is there a way to count the number of abortions actually performed? Should there be a limit?

Answer 1

According to the CDC an average of 2340 reported abortions were performed per day in 2002. That's 854,122 abortions in one year. Since the Supreme court ruling in Roe vs. Wade 44,000,000 abortions have been performed

73% of women who abort say that they are choosing abortion because having a child would interfere with work, school, or other non-family responsibilities. Only 2% say that the pregnancy they are terminating is a result of rape or incest. 52% of all abortions are performed on women younger than 25 years old.

As of 1995, 500,000 women were seeking to adopt a child. Most of them were seeking infants. The number of women seeking to adopt has reportedly grown in the last 10 years.

Answer 2

ProChoice is one of the biggest oxymorons I can think of. It stinks of Orwell's "double speak."

A woman has ProChoice - choice of birth control types and choice to abstain and choice to use her damn head for something other than a hat rack and choice to accept the consequences of her actions. And, no, I am not sexist - but, in case there's women out there who don't realize it, men don't get pregnant and most don't get strapped with the consequencies. I'm sick of hearing that a woman should have a choice of what she does with her own body - damn it, it's only a choice about HER body if the doctor is going to ABORT HER!

I have always felt that once the cat was let of the bag (Roe vs. wade) abortion would become "Post Pregnancy Birth Control" - and, indeed it has.

And don't followup with some a## nine question about opening up my house for the unwanted babies.

Unfortunately, the ACLU would go nuts if anyone seriously suggested a "limit." A law was once proposed in the south that an unmarried woman could not receive welfare payments if she had a second child out of wedlock without having her tubes tied. Sound reasonable? In an insane ruling, the judges threw it out as a violation of HER RIGHTS !!

I'm afraid abortion is here to stay - abortions may be effective population control - but it's not birth control by any stretch.

Answer 3

in south africa where i live the women that cant afford to have children or have Aids would rather have an abortion than to bring a child into the world whos mother will probably die when they are 5. the bad thing about abortions in south africa is that the women are iven the abortion without any pain relief medicine and once the baby has come they sometimes have to leave the baby on the counter to die and the nurses make the mothers to stay in the ward and discard there babys into the dumbster. it is so wrong what people do. im not for abortions at all but for the reason that the child will have aAids and the mother will die when they are still young and left to defend for themselves is wrong

Answer 4

If birth control was cheaper and more accessable it would greatly reduce the need for abortions. Having the morning after pill now being sold over the counter is one of the greatest things these people have done in awhile. I also agree that girls who repeatedly use abortion should be manditoraly sterilized. I do agree it is a good way of keeping the population down but it does need to be regulated better.

Answer 5

The issue of abortion may be examined from two perspectives. From the point of the parents (or the lady in question) on the one hand and from the perspective of the unborn. Since an unborn does not have a personality (so to speak), or any existential experience, the interest of the child bearer should take precedence. That is only logical. It has to be pro-choice...

Answer 6

Have you ever seen an unwanted child? an abused child an adult who was an unwanted child or abused because he or she was unwanted? well look in the prisons and death row. look around, I think ideally they should fix certain people like they do cats and dogs but thats never going to happen. what about drug addicted babies, with organ damage and brain damage? its a tough call. and I dont believe people should use abortion as a form of birth control but I believe abortions are necessary. sad but true.

Answer 7

I think younger people should be more informed about sex and that you CAN GET PREGNANT. Some people are so stupid that they believe sex myths like, "oh i can't get pregnant the first time, or on my period." People need to be smarter. Also maybe contraceptives should be cheaper. A condom is like a dollar if you buy a box, most people would just risk it and use the pull out method, right?

But abortion should be legal, since people would do it anyway. Prohibition didn't do a damn thing, now did it?

Answer 8

...are you asking if doctors should be subjected to a quota? Like..... a max of 25 abortions a day, something like that?

Or are you inquiring about the plausibility of limited ACCESS? Currently there is legal "on demand" abortion in the US, Canada, Russia, and a few others. Access is limited to one degree or another in many other countries. Check out the links.

Answer 9

0. Unless for the life of the mother. There's about a 5 year waiting for babies that are being aborted so they would be unwanted.

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Answer 10

I don't get into other peoples business like that but for my own family, I am pro-life.

There are so many terrible things going on that you can't do much about most of it, except try to do the best you can yourself. If you can come up with a way to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and also get rid of abortion, I'll donate a little to that cause.