This is a class issue.
Rich women have always been able to hop a jet and fly to another country and "take care of business".
Now, before I get a bunch of hateful replies.
When I was 18 I was raped.
One week later I was also two days late for my period which was unusual.
I had 48 hours to think about all the "what if" stuff. (Period came two days later).
For myself, I didn't care who the father is or was. Did not know him/mugged and raped............I decided that if any baby had 50% of my blood
running through his/her little precious veins, that baby was going to be mine forever. Loved, cherished and a part of me.
HOWEVER
I personally don't think I have the right to dictate to another women what she can and can't do with her own body.
To my mind, abortion is sad - very sad...............as stated before, any baby with 1/2 of my DNA lives and I will fight to my dying breath for my
babies (I have three by a wonderful wonderful man).
I was lucky, my period came, I went to a doctor and had no disease - thank god
But again, rich, affluent women have more options by virtue of money.
All women should be able to choose.
A baby unwanted is usually a baby unloved.
A baby unplanned for (and babies are very expensive if you do the parent thing right).
Many lost souls, adults that cannot be salvaged, were the product of a unplanned, unwanted pregnancy.
Good, free, available birth control - closing the barn doors before the cows get out is the logical answer and don't say abstain, cause some of us in
our youth were so horny saying abstain was a joke.
Abortion is sad, I'm an old woman now and no longer have that problem to deal with.
But all women of child bearing age should at least have the right, the freedom to choose.
Again yes abortion is to my mind beyond sad.
As far as adoption. My sister in law could not have children. She is white, she and her husband wanted a white "normal" baby and a white normal
baby is hard to come by - they don't tell you that.................they had to go "grey" market and only got two white normal baby girls because my
sister in law's husband is a lawyer and had connections.
Adoption..............most children up for adoption are either "damaged", "not white" or older with "issues".
Adoption..............the waiting list is, in America an average of 7 years.
Many people that dictate "Abortion is wrong and should be illegal" - are financially secure, married, and have no idea of what facing a pregnancy
alone with no money, psychological support or job is like.
Don't judge other people.........simply concentrate on your own dirty laundry and allow others to do what they feel they have to do in order to
survive.
FYI: Many women that do have abortions, I am told, regret later that they did........many when they decide to have their first live birth feel the
pangs of guilt over their past decision.
But taking on the role of parenting, trying to raise up a child to be happy, productive and a decent person is hard now days even if you have
everything going for you.
America has the highest prison rate of any industrialize country in the world at present..........many were unwanted, abused and uncared for as
children.
All children...........ALL CHILDREN...........deserve to be loved, cherished and feel wanted.
The lesser of two evils.............an abortion when there are only a few cells or strapping a person down to a gurney and pumping them full of
poison.
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