Why do people pretend health issues are involved in abortion?

Question

People say "my ovaries and my uterus and my vagina and my health" and cite rape/incest and the health of the mother as reasons that women get abortions, but only 1% of abortions are rape/incest related and 6% pose possible health risks for the mother.

This leaves 93% unaccounted for! This means that 99% of those who get abortions have CONSENTED to having intercourse, and therefore are responsible for the result of their actions (anyone who says that people have sex without knowing it can leads to babies is quite laughable!)

So, those 93% are making selfish decisions because those women couldn't control their sex drive.

So why do people make them sound like victims, as if they were all raped by awful men when truthfully, almost all of them were consenting women? What justification do these women have? They don't have to keep it. There are more Americans who want to adopt than Americans to adopt!

oh, and the statistics are from a pro-abortion source, so don't tell me it came from an "bias source":
http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html

First poster: This is not a rant. Clearly there are questions, and you avoided all of them. If you have something to contribute, do it, but I didn't ask if abortion was legal, so you contributed nothing...

Be fair: Can't women refuse sexual intercourse without a condom? There is equal blame on that one.

Baba Yaga: I don't have a "goal". I don't believe people will change their minds because of me. I DID purposely use extreme words for the purpose of avoiding stereotypical fallback responses, and some of the answers are interesting. Perhaps you have something worth saying, but you haven't said anything!
:(

Answer 1

The practice of using "health" or even "poverty" as a reason for killing the unborn is known as "rationalization".

Nothing can be so bad that it can't be explained in a way to make it appear to be a good thing. Abortion is one of those. This is the same machinations at work when they call an unborn baby a "clump of cells", a "parasite" or other euphemisms to alleviate the fact that they are killing another human for their own selfish designs.

Virtually all abortions are by women who desire to have no responsibility for the results of their actions. By salving their consciousness, they actually seem to think that killing an unborn baby is acceptable but ONLY if the mother chooses, which is another odd lack of reality.

Answer 2

Having a baby isn't like just pulling a potato out of a bag you know. Women don't just have babies for fun. There's often morning sickness, swollen feet, intense discomfort during the last two or three months when she can hardly find a comfortable position to lie, back ache, stretch marks, indigestion, culminating in intense pain, not being able to work, having to buy a new set of maternity clothes and the inconvenience of fairly frequent medical visits - and that's if the pregnancy goes well. It's worse if there is something wrong. It is said that if men had to go through that, they would band together to invent a better way of reproducing!

Then after the birth, many women feel depressed for hormonal reasons, and if the father is absent or not supportive it can be particularly difficult for the mother. She has to be "on tap" for the baby every three hours at first, with very little sleep, and as an ongoing duty for the next sixteen years or more ; children are an ongoing drain on emotional and financial resources and totally disrupt your life.

If this seems too much to bear for some women, and the choice to have an abortion is available, why shouldn't they be able to choose not to have an unwanted child? Childbirth should not be used as a punishment for sex. Those who insist that a woman should carry the baby to full-term, to be adopted by someone else, are seldom the sort of people who have to go through the pain of having a baby they don't want and it is not reasonable that they should moralize on the basis of their own religious belief. Everyone knows it is better not to get pregnant in the first place, rather than getting pregnant and then having an abortion. Women don't need anyone else telling them that.

Those who do not agree with abortion should ensure it doesn't happen to them, but it is not right that they should direct how others should behave in this respect. Of course life is precious, but people can be very subjective and selective - it's all right to take life in war or for so-called religious or idealistic reasons or to kill by unkindness or carelessness, and to kill any other species, and look at our history - land acquisition and conquest did not come cheaply to life. So why so much more fuss about a foetus?

Personally I would not want an abortion, and think children are wonderful and bring so much love and happiness, but not everyone has my privileged circumstances, and it is not selfish to want to avoid bringing an unwanted child into this very difficult world.

Answer 3

If as you say, 93% of women who had abortions did so because they couldn't control their sex drive, what makes you think they will suddenly become responsible and loving if they are forced to go through a pregnancy they never wanted in the first place? Don't you think that such irresponsible women not should only be allowed to have abortions but encouraged to have them? Why do some people continue to insist that having a baby teaches maturity and responsibility when in fact, it often doesn't? I know of cases of women who had children but really would have been better off if they hadn't had them. Those are the women who push their children off onto their friends and relatives or dump them into foster care if they can't find anyone to take them.

Answer 4

I don't think all women who consider abortion are victims. I think all of them have a difficult choice, one which very few men, I might add, have to make, excepting fathers that choose to participate in the life of their future offspring.

To abort a child is a selfish decision. It is the wrong decision. It is the immoral decision. To abort a child deprives it of its future life. Who knows what potential that child had, good or bad?

However, think of it this way. The child can't be the one to make the decision. So if you're truly pro-life, you would be understanding instead of judgemental towards the women who ultimately do, sad to say, have the right to destroy their unborn children. Getting people to agree that women who consider abortion are immoral isn't going to win you any friends, OR prevent any children from being aborted. Education, compassion, and understanding will help you to turn more mothers off the selfish path of abortion.

Here's my final say. Yes, if you want to generalize, the women in your statistics were probably irresponsible. However, that doesn't make their choice less difficult to make, and the bottom line is you don't know. You don't know what their situation is, whether they haven't even considered adoption because they were poorly educated, whether they don't want to drop out of school just so they can have a baby they're only going to give up anyway, whether their family will let them stay pregnant, whether (because it's socially unacceptable) they just don't want to be pregnant when they know they shouldn't be. You just don't know. Don't assume you do.

Answer 5

The reason for the majority of your stats is due to a lack of Sex Ecucation both in our schools and at home. Teaching abstinence just does not work, we need to properly educate women and young girls about proper ways to use birth control, and we need to teach young men the proper way to use a condom. The best decision is an informed decision and without the education, many people are making choices that they later regret!

Answer 6

I didn't know anyone had to have a reason to get an abortion as it is a legal medical procedure. When I had my abortion no one asked me why it was my decision. I had used birth control, but it didn't work so I aborted. I consented to having intercourse knowing then as I know now the possibility of getting pregnant is always there, but I also knew and continue to know the opportunity to have an abortion is there. I would be the same if I were to get pregnant again, it is not a laughing matter but an option available to all women..

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Wow.

You have a total disconnect. Whether the sex was consensual is irrelevant. Rights are not based on the sexual inclinations of our parents. Either a fetus has a right to life or it does not. Period.

Secondly, you need to check your facts before you go spewing nonsense. Maybe those "Americans who want to adopt" who you're so damned worried about should adopt one of the hundreds of thousands of orphans in the United States, rather than rejecting them because they're of a different race or are suffering from a disability. It isn't pregnant women's job to pop out the perfect baby for discriminatory would-be parents.

If you'll agree that a medical question is by definition one that pertains to one's health, you'll see that abortion really is a health issue. And not yours or Dubya's. MINE.

Answer 9

How do you know these 93% aren't mothers who are teenagers? or those with a $50,000 debt to pay for? or couples with 5+ children already to support?

I'm not saying there are irresponsible women out there, but don't generalize.

Answer 10

You say "Potato" and I say "Potato". Where you see 93% of women who couldn't control their sex drive, I see 93% of men who couldn't be bothered with putting on a condom.
As far as I am concerned, abortion is a woman's issue in which men have no say.