Are you against abortion?
I am but I would respect the woman's choice. My best friend would shun her.
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A study of the history of what occurred prior to legal abortion shows why it is a necessary option.
There are thousands of studies available done by academic researchers in most countries around the world,
and there are many metastudies which collate all the results.
Many are accessible free online.
There are thousands of studies available done by academic researchers in most countries around the world,
and there are many metastudies which collate all the results.
Many are accessible free online.
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@AgapeLove It probably depends on your definition of "catastrophe".
I was a young adult in the days before abortion became legal.
I remember the frequent news headlines.
I read the academic reports by doctors studying the cases that came into the emergency wards.
Women used to do all kinds of things to get rid of a child conceived by accident or rape.
They gave the babies to orphanages. Of those, some were adopted out to loving families: some others, one in ten, ended up in families where they were raised as slaves, brutally beaten, raped, and sometimes murdered.
Of those that remained in orphanages, on in three was abuse or sexually abused - these cases have been coming out in court cases all over the world - with the now adult children still bearing the physical scars.
Most suicides by women in those days were due to unwanted pregnancies - to avoid the shame of the way their own families and society treated single mothers.
Women took poisons to try to abort and often died of the poisons.
Women stuck knitting needles up inside themselves to kill the foetus, and frequently ended up half dead of septicemia in the emergency wards of hospitals.
Women went to back-street abortionists who were often no better than butchers,
and later died of the post-op infections.
Some women bore the children, and took out their anger and depression on those children as they grew, creating psychopaths in the process.
I was there in the days when these practices were commonplace.
While correct contraception is always the best way to avoid conception, no contraception is 100% effective.
I my view, condemning pregnant women to bear babies they do not want is a recipe for multiplying the cruelties committed against their children because, so far, no society has found a means to prevent these crimes.
I was a young adult in the days before abortion became legal.
I remember the frequent news headlines.
I read the academic reports by doctors studying the cases that came into the emergency wards.
Women used to do all kinds of things to get rid of a child conceived by accident or rape.
They gave the babies to orphanages. Of those, some were adopted out to loving families: some others, one in ten, ended up in families where they were raised as slaves, brutally beaten, raped, and sometimes murdered.
Of those that remained in orphanages, on in three was abuse or sexually abused - these cases have been coming out in court cases all over the world - with the now adult children still bearing the physical scars.
Most suicides by women in those days were due to unwanted pregnancies - to avoid the shame of the way their own families and society treated single mothers.
Women took poisons to try to abort and often died of the poisons.
Women stuck knitting needles up inside themselves to kill the foetus, and frequently ended up half dead of septicemia in the emergency wards of hospitals.
Women went to back-street abortionists who were often no better than butchers,
and later died of the post-op infections.
Some women bore the children, and took out their anger and depression on those children as they grew, creating psychopaths in the process.
I was there in the days when these practices were commonplace.
While correct contraception is always the best way to avoid conception, no contraception is 100% effective.
I my view, condemning pregnant women to bear babies they do not want is a recipe for multiplying the cruelties committed against their children because, so far, no society has found a means to prevent these crimes.