I Am Pro Choice

@FreeSpirit1 nobody is using abortion as birth control. That’s a myth. So you can relax, since it doesn’t exist.

But I don’t see what this has to do with my post.

@NaturalBeautyQueen nobody? How can you make such a blanket statement?
I am in favor of keeping abortion legal and I also believe the vast majority women who end a pregnancy have not been raped,ending a pregnancy because of your life situation is by definition birth control.

@FreeSpirit1 An abortion is a medical procedure, and in the U.S., it’s not cheap. Literally using it as ongoing birth control would be the equivalent of going in for craniotomies for headaches.

@FreeSpirit1 I felt that way too, until it was broken down for me. That multiple abortions does not mean a form of birth control. If you look at what birth control actually is, it prevents a pregnancy. Abortion is where pregnancy is already taken place, but it is ending it. Anti abortionists have used that only to shame women for having them. Even if you think about women that shouldn’t get pregnant because her body is not healthy, contraceptives fail, she has an abortion every single time.

@bijouxbroussard I'm aware of that,it's birth control of last resort. "Ooops I got pregnant time to abort". Do you think every abortion is a health decision.? I'd say 95 percent are for convience,not health.

@FreeSpirit1 you’d say “95%”. But that isn’t accurate. Women have high risks pregnancies where they keep trying, but have to abort because the fetus would not be able to survive outside of the womb, or is already dead.

@NaturalBeautyQueen I am very aware of what an abortion is which is why it upsets me at the number performed each year. I am not saying women should not have access to abortion I just wish there wasn't so many. It's not like getting a tooth pulled.

@FreeSpirit1 There are nuances to "convenience".

Ages ago I knew women who ran a women's health clinic that performed abortions...

Sure "convenience" is aborting to fix a lack of restraint, responsibility. But "convenience"-- meaning "not health"-- is also aborting because your partner abuses your children. Or your son. "Convenience" is also aborting because you are suffering domestic violence and know a pregnancy will get your beaten across all four walls. It's also "convenience" in that you or your partner are drunks, addicts, and know this is no good outcome for the child. It's "convenience" in that one might lose one's job, or housing, because of the pregnancy. "Convenience" is being compelled to have an abortion because you had an affair with a powerful man, and need to make the baby disappear to save face. These women told stories of being reviled by clients: what you do is horrible, but my case is different.... you're still evil...

Yea. Abortion is a tragedy. Sometimes a tragedy stuffed into another tragedy.

@NaturalBeautyQueen what percentage of abortions are for rape incest or the life of mother or baby? 650 thousand abortions performed per year according to the CDC

@FreeSpirit1 What difference does that make ? Rape itself is underreported. And if someone doesn’t want to have a baby, what does forcing them do ? Would you propose monitoring someone so they don’t drink or do drugs during the pregnancy ? If you don’t trust them with a choice, why would you trust them with a child ?

@FreeSpirit1 thanks to birth control, the number of abortions have decreased. Before that it was more.

@FreeSpirit1 you don’t really know the percentage of abortion reasons because clinics and PP are a don’t ask don’t tell. It goes against patient’s rights. You’re not going to ask a woman in labor why she’s having a baby. Why would anybody do that with a woman that decides to have an abortion?

@NaturalBeautyQueen I'm asking what you think.

What difference does it make, what I think? That’s the whole point.

You put a lot of words and thoughts into my opinion. I Don't know where you're getting them from though @bijouxbroussard

@FreeSpirit1 I guess from people I’ve known who have been in the situation. It’s easy to say “it’s a small percentage” if you have no faces to put with such incidents. It’s really nobody else’s business, though. It’s between the woman and her doctor, because neither you (nor I) are going to support them through the pregnancy or raise the children afterwards.

@Wildflowerr that’s not using it as a form of birth control.

@Wildflowerr Do you know anybody who personally had multiple abortions? I do.

They are rape and domestic violence survivors.

They are women that want to have babies and try everything that she can to stay pregnant, but the fetus can’t survive on its own. So she had no choice but to terminate.

I know women that had medical issues, but want to get pregnant. But because she’s in severe pain, has to get an abortion, because it is too much for her body to handle.

What’s wrong with wanting a baby, but because of her health, it’s almost impossible?

@Wildflowerr how many women do you know that’s had multiple abortions?

It has nothing to do with the doctors. Are you a doctor?

@Wildflowerr And that’s who you think should have a child instead. Your logic is, if a woman is promiscuous and irresponsible enough to get pregnant, she should be forced to have the child even if she doesn’t want it and has no incentive to take care of herself so that the child will be healthy in utero ?

@Wildflowerr That is crazy. Why would she be willing to raise a child, if she’s irresponsible ? Nobody forced her to have abortions, either—that was also her choice. And it’s her business, unless you’re offering to adopt.