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How many abortions is too many?

My friend and I were arguing because I believe that if someone has an abortion, that's a really big deal and I'm not sure I could be their freind if I knew.

However my friend believes that in this day and age, a woman should be able to have 3 abortions before people have the right to judge them. But anything past 3 is really bad.

Who's right?
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Miram · 31-35, F
There is no specific number that fits everyone, but repeated abortions have some irreversible health consequences for a future baby, in case she decides to get pregnant, and the mother.

Morally speaking, it is not for me to decide or anyone else's. Each woman has her own circumstances.
SW-User
@Miram And really no one knows another's circumstances, and it's easy to leap to judgment. I happen to like the person I met, I fell in love with, was pregnant with someone else's kid, the heart she took upon her decision to have an abortion when it was difficult for her to have a child.
Miram · 31-35, F
@SW-User I told my mother that she should've aborted me, not once. I was a consequence of rape and unlike my other siblings, I spent a life time dealing with her misplaced hatred and anger towards me.

But came a point where I realized she's just limited emotionally and intellectually to understand what's best for herself, and for me. And as a part of the consequences I do have a say on the morality of her choices.

I can go around preaching abortion on that basis, the basis that I was done wrong. I don't because I understand it is so different from a case to another.
SW-User
@Miram Yes, and I have listened to people say negative things about kids born into foster parents and arrangements. Somewhere it has affected me, emotionally as I can't change how my father was brought up, or wanted.

I think he knew it would affect us. I find my mother still here, very warm, very sweet, all around someone who would be there for someone. It's likely what took him of her. So I have a happy story around this, but I feel sad?

I know in my heart, how I met who I have spoken about, if I hadn't that learning, I may look differently.
Dateless · 31-35, M
Sorry.

@Miram
Miram · 31-35, F
@Dateless 🤗