About 80% of women who have abortions are unmarried. The reason for these abortions is obvious: Men who desert women they have made pregnant. What I want to know is what causes the other 20%. Some married women are raped, but not nearly that many. Why do married women have abortions? I need to understand this. Thank you very much.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

Babies aren't always wanted in stable relationships Force, for many reasons, like not being ready, having no time etc.

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Well, those reasons aren't good enough to kill a child. I'm done with this topic. I'm 100% pro-life and I won't attempt to change society to justify my pro-life stance. It justifies itself. I am 100% opposed to abortion no matter who considers me a "sexist" or a "Nazi". Here I stand.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

Married women would usually rather work than have to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. I don't think it's right at all. If I was a woman I doubt I would even consider such an option, mostly because I am a paranoid freak with some serious anxiety problems and I would never be able to sleep after such an ordeal. I have no idea what I would do if my girlfriend ever had an abortion. When she thought she was pregnant I had a major panic attack as it was.

I think Headless Pixie and Hansmoleman both miss the point. Now, it has been said that women often get abortions when they are abandoned by the disgusting little pr!cks that got them knocked up. However, even when women are in allegedly stable relationships, there is the issue of husbands that threaten to divorce their wives or boyfiends that threaten to walk out on their girlfriends if they get pregnant again or if they refuse to abort. So, for something that was supposed to have been this great liberating thing for women, something that was supposed to let women f*ck like a man, to enjoy a good roll in the hay and then abandon the consequences, just as men have been doing for thousands of years, it appears that there is a very large element of economic coercion of women by men. And, of course, in many of these allegedly stable relationships, they are maybe not so stable as the outside world thinks. Perhaps, the allegedly stable husband is an abusive pr!ck and the woman does not want his baby.

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Theodore Lamar Heiks
BA, History/Political Science, Western State College, 1984
MBA, Entrepreneurship/Marketing, City University, 1993