Opinions please

[haele]

207. My comment concerning many who are against abortion is they dwell on the stereotype.

Too many anti-abortion proselytizers assume that abortion is an easy choice, that most abortions are for wayward high school girls, college students or other partiers who use abortion as "birth control".
Because pregnancy and birth to the majority of them is something they either don't experience, or an medical condition that was relatively "easy" for them, one in which their personal decision was such that they felt justified in.
The problem with such people is that they assume that every other pregnancy is just like the ones they experience. That what they, personally, are willing to endure and sacrifice is what every other woman is supposed to endure. They may be able to provide a safe, though economically stressful, home for an unexpected child, or they may be able to mentally go through putting a baby up for adoption after carrying it to term, they may "have the faith" to go risk health and perhaps death to bring a risky pregnancy to term, or be willing to carry a damaged fetus to birth, even though it might not survive, or live a few short, costly years in agony or severely disability.

But not all women are willing or capable to do these things. And, frankly, attempting to forcibly "counsel" any woman who is facing any of the above and is already weighing what she might be able to stand to sacrifice her future for is the height of hubris and selfishness for the counselor. It's one thing to ask a woman to consider her options, and support her decision - it's another thing to badger and subtly threaten her because "she's not taking responsibility for her actions" or "Think of the Baaayyybeee - you're killing that sweet, precious little future boy or girl..."

Most anti-abortionists are perfectly happy to let the poor woman "take responsibility" - usually as long as they get to gloat over her misfortunes because she "had sex" while they oooh over the precious little baby they wanted. That is, if they don't throw figurative rocks and remove any support nets the woman might need because she wasn't capable of being a mother, had a baby she couldn't afford, or wasn't at the place in her life and relationship with the father to be ready to raise.

It's all about "abortion as birth control". The anti-abortionists personal "control of births", that is.
Funny thing - for those who are anti-abortion for religious reasons, their God is usually the most blatant, busiest Abortionist around.
How do they know that their God didn't want the woman to have a baby at that time, and would be perfectly fine with, in fact, encouraged her decision to have an abortion when she became pregnant due to her natural cycle and that time wasn't the time "He" had in mind. Modern medicine certainly saves "Him" time and effort.

Haele