I’ll be quite frank; These are my views on abortion. They aren’t “right”, they aren’t “wrong”, but they’re mine none the less.
I am not pro-life. I don’t believe in completely outlawing abortion, and I don’t believe in the radicals that firebomb abortion clinics. I don’t believe in denying birth control or keeping people in the dark about it.
I am neither pro-choice. I don’t believe that you should be able to walk into a clinic and commit infantcide without evaluations. I don’t believe that it’s completely “your body, your choice”; you’re forgetting the other half that made it.
I stand somewhere in the “anti-choice” section by default.
I might get a lot of flak for this, but most women who get abortions are selfish. Children concieved from rape, incest, or the child could potentially kill the mother that are aborted are less that what, 10%?
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/abreasons.html
Almost half of the abortions the past few years were due to not using any form of birthcontrol. You would think that their parents, or even the schools, would drill it into their heads that if you’re going to sleep around, at least be smart about it. The other half were from using birth control…poked holes in condoms? Unsafe foreplay? what? I’d like to at least know what that section is about.
Secondly, apparently less than 0.5% of the abortions were the husbands or boyfriends asking them to have one, and another 0.5% for rape. Apparently men aren’t the savage brutes we all thought they were! /sarcam.
The two biggies for abortion?
Can’t afford the baby and Unready.
Maybe if you were “unready” you could possibly keep your legs closed? Just a thought? If you can’t afford a kid, I hope to god you can afford a pack of birth control pills and a few sets of condoms.
You can justify these things in certain situations, such as carrying the child to term might kill the both of you, or that the child will be born with severe defects, physically and mentally. But it is selfish when you do it because you “want a little girl” and not the 4th little boy; It’s selfish when you knowingly try to get pregnate to “save” a relationship and then fall back on abortion for your mistakes. Or even worse, willingly poking holes in condoms to try to trap a girlfriend into a relationship or “forgetting” to take your pills to trap your boyfriend.
I really do not think kindly of people who had abortions for selfish reasons like that. Deal with the thought of the consequences before you open your legs, because you’re literally killing something that inconviences you.
To fix this, I think you’d need to have
a) a Psychiatric evaluation
b) a Doctor’s evaluation
c) Signed papers from the other half of the relationship
It’s not fair to expect your boyfriend to agree with you on it. It’s not fair to do it anyways if he objects. You slept with him, you deal with him and try to find a way to come to a compromise, even if it’s him raising the child as a single father.
There is always precautions, and I’d wish people would start taking them.