What about the emotional (and physical) dangers of giving birth to an unwanted child and then having to give it away?
Before you tell me that abortion is physically dangerous, I think you should know that you are 12 times more likely to die during child birth than during an abortion.
Please don't bring in other points regarding the issue. Stay on track.
2007-06-06 05:14:32 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Clearly there are many of you who don't know how to read.
2007-06-06 05:24:31 · update #1
It's just a way to infantilize women. Critics of abortion like to make the case that society needs to protect women and make sure they don't hurt themselves by making a decision they're not qualified to. I guess the argument is, "they don't realize what they're doing and will be sorry later."
I find it pretty insulting, personally. I don't need or desire a parent-child relationship with my government.
Women who believe abortion is wrong shouldn't have them. Women who believe their adult lives and wishes are more important than a zygote can make their own choice.
2007-06-06 05:38:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anise 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Physical dangers are...over time you can get ovarian cancer.
Back when abortion was illegal women would lose their life to have an abortion and although you may not die from an abortion nowadays, your future child could be born with some serious birth defects.
Emotional dangers are: you lose your self esteem and sometimes women want to commit suicide, you may always wonder what that child would have been like, their age etc. and you'd experience major trust issues.
2007-06-06 05:17:40 · answer #2 · answered by Gir 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
people do focus on the wrong parts of the whole abortion situation.
how about the whole unprotected sex or sex without love/commitment issues?
if we put more concern towards the issues that lead to abortion, this would not be such a hot button issue.
everything about abortion is wrong, cruel, dangerous and so sad...
but to answer your question directly - we focus on the emotional parts more because the physical dangers will pass while the emotional dangers can have long-term impact on the person having the abortion and on every other relationship they ever have...
2007-06-06 05:26:38 · answer #3 · answered by chieko 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have a friend who had an abortion in high school. Fifteen years later, every time something bad happens in her life, she thinks that it is STILL God punishing her for that abortion.
No matter what I have told her or what our priest has told her, she still feels that way. That is way people always focus on the "emotional" dangers of abortion.
It carries an incredible amount of guilt that unless you have gone through you will never know about. To this day my friend still deals with those guilt issues.
In her head she knows that God loves her and has forgiven her, but in her heart she still feels the guilt, pain, and shame. So she hasn't forgiven herself. And she never will.
That is the kind of damage that an abortion will do.
2007-06-06 05:20:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Yes I know what you are saying.
I agree with you completely on this
it is a choice for each mother to make
and the emotions of others to stay out of.
Some babies end up in dumpsters and
just on the news last week a microwaved baby!
OMG.... Talk about emotional.
2007-06-06 05:20:07 · answer #5 · answered by sassinya 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Any surgical procedure carries at least some risk.
But people tend to focus on the "emotional" dangers of abortion because arguments from emotion are all the right-to-life crowd have.
2007-06-06 05:17:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion."
2007-06-06 05:22:05 · answer #7 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The main issue for me is this: I don't think I can handle a baby, so I'll kill it. Killing it is somehow better than giving it to someone who may not be able to have their own child? It's not the emotional or physical consequences that bother me, it's the monumental selfishness that is usually involved.
2007-06-06 05:19:23 · answer #8 · answered by singwritelaugh 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
They see abortion as death. Everything else is a secondary concern to the way they perceive it as murder. They figure anything is better to some degree than killing a "baby".
2007-06-06 05:17:27 · answer #9 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Where is your moral compass pointing?
http://www.schneblin.com/studies/pdfs/what_would_you_do.pdf
This is something more sinister than mere emotional trauma.
2007-06-06 05:17:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋