Regretting An Abortion.

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How many women would have a Second Abortion?

  1. All of them. It's their body, and their choice. Let them have as many abortions as they want!

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    64.3%
  2. Most of them regret the first one, and would probably not have another one.

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    35.7%
  1. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Do Dems want to coerce women to have abortions?

    That's the whole point NOBODY has EVER coerced anyone to HAVE an abortion when they didn't want to.
     
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    Duh, if she is MADE to have one then she had one in the first place. :roll:

    Why would every Democrat woman be made to have an abortion?

    Maybe you should ask yourself why Repubs want to make every woman have babies


    Democrats do NOT preach women should be made to get abortions....where TF did you get that crap?


    Can you address any posts? Like Post #19 ? Or are you just a hit-and-run.....who has no answers and can't address posts?
     
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    FFS! :roflol:

    Roe vs Wade was passed by a majority Republican SCOTUS in 1973.
    2022 The MAJORITY of Americans did NOT support it being overturned.
    I'm not sorry to be the one to tell ya this.
     
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    having a baby is a choice, it could cost one life or limbs, so only the women can make this choice, not the government, not you, not I
     
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    also I would say more women regret giving up a child to adoption then regret an abortion.. but either way, should be their choice
     
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    What à woman does with her body and her life is NOT THE BUSINESS OF POLITICS.
    It is a personal choice and depends greatly on her particular circumstances.
    The business of the government IS to make that decision safe.
    As for regrets, I doubt there is no one who has not regretted anything. Let me ask you this...do you think men who impregnated her have any regrets that they created life?
    Or don't they give à toss?
     
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    Again and again where are your citations to support this twaddle
     
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    Far far more as the bond increases the further along a pregnancy is
     
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    So it is better to just kill it. For the woman's "mental health", before that bond forms and further solidifies.
     
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    Early abortions are very widely supported

    But is it not better to make LARCS cheap easy and convenient?
     
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    There is tubal ligation, if she does not want to be a mother.

    But even that can carry regrets...
     
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    There is also vasectomies, which unlike tubal ligation (which are not 100%) are reversible without significant surgical intervention

    Amazing that MALE contraception is never mentioned

    But your answer also points to the fact that you appear to be unaware of what the acronym LARC Long Acting Reversible Contraception actually stands for
     
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    There are à great many things that are of no business of à government .
    And some of them of not so intimate à nature.

    Of all issues that people face, abortion is right up there.
    How DARE à faceless political body get itself involved?
    Are they going to make rules about how women dress next, to protect men from giving into their instincts?
    WHERE IS THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY OF MEN? Can't they control themselves?
    Women don't magically get pregnant. Why didn't HE stop what he was doing?

    Because your mâle dominated mind assumes that he can take it where he wants and she has to suffer for it for the rest of her life. And don't ever suggest that these men have respect for women. Instead they dont give a toss about women. They treat her like trash they used to wrap à hamburger in that they have thrown away because they have had their pleasure.
    And then make life for women even more difficult.
    By all that is equal respectful, decent, human and of Christian charity it stinks. Grossly hypocritical, hateful towards women and arrogant, and prideful to the end.
    If a man sires à child he doesnt want he too should have his life ruined. Equality means forced vasectomies. Let them regret their actions in the same way.
     
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    What is your endless fascination for the physical welfare of women?
     
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    There's abortion if she doesn't want to be a mother...HER choice :)
     
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    and the lack of knowing if they brought a child into this world and gave her to a pedophile or something to raise
     
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    Women also don't want politics in their contraception choices , where they live ,who with and in what relationship, how they bring up their children how to dress and above all WHAT TO THINK.
    They want to live their lives in any way they choose and not to have any government or political group including faith groups looking at or more particularly down at them.
    They certainly do not want to be discussed by strangers who are obsessed with their personal lives. They want to make their own decisions without judgement or moral condemnation by people who know NOTHING about them.
    They do not want faceless politics to coerce them into lives they do not want.
    Does that answer your question?
     
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    And has been debunked

    Psychologist Confirms Many Women Regret Their Abortions, Experience Mental Health Problems

    Just one study by a group of pro-abortion researchers is being touted as unquestionable proof that women do not regret aborting their unborn babies.

    But Dr. Priscilla Coleman, a professor of human development and family studies at Bowling Green State University, said women deserve to know all the facts, and many other studies indicate that women do regret their abortions.

    Speaking to the Catholic News Agency, Coleman explained some of the problems with the popular Turnaway Study from the University of California San Francisco.

    Highlighted frequently by mainstream news outlets, the study followed women who had abortions compared to women who wanted abortions but were turned away, often because they were too far along in their pregnancies.

    The researchers, led by abortion activist Diana Greene Foster, PhD, claimed that 95% of women who had abortions did not regret them five years later. This point received a lot of media attention, and abortion activists frequently cite it.

    Coleman, however, said women are not being fully informed.

    “There are hundreds of studies and if (women seeking abortions) are only given the results of the Turnaway Study, they’re not being informed, they’re being misled,” she told CNA. “And that’s problematic in my view.”

    She said most peer-reviewed scientific studies indicate that abortion regret is a significant risk for many women.

    “Not every woman’s going to regret her abortion or have mental health problems, but there’s an increased risk,” Coleman said. “And so that’s something women have a right to know about prior to undergoing the procedure.”

    Here’s more from the report:

    She told CNA she believes the methodology of the study is “highly problematic.”

    “In any other field, you wouldn’t be able to publish this stuff,” Coleman told CNA. She said the “politically correct” conclusions found by the Turnaway Study are why it has received widespread acceptance.

    Follow LifeNews.com on Instagram for pro-life pictures and videos.

    Others have made similar observations. A British science magazine, New Scientist, also noted that the Turnaway Study may be “biased” because only 38% of the women asked to participate in the study actually did, and the women who dropped out or did not participate may have been the ones who felt more negatively about their abortions.

    Contrary to what the study claims, abortion regret is not rare. However, sometimes it takes years – even decades – before a woman begins coming to terms with her unborn baby’s abortion death.

    A British survey in 2006 found that 82% of respondents said they deeply regretted their abortions. Of the 248 women who participated, only 26 said they had few or no regrets.

    Numerous studies also link abortions to an increased risk of mental health problems, including a 2009 study from the University of Otago in New Zealand. More than 85% of women reported negative reactions to their abortions including sorrow, sadness, guilt, regret, grief and disappointment, according to the study.

    Other studies indicate that post-abortive women are at a higher risk of suicide. One study published in the British Medical Journal in 2013 found that women who had abortions were seven times more likely to commit suicide than women who gave birth.

    Lead author Professor David Fergusson, who described himself as a pro-choice atheist, also led the research team in a 2008 study that concluded that women who continued an unwanted or mistimed pregnancy did not experience a significant increase in mental health problems. Further, having an abortion did not reduce their mental health risks.

    A 2011 study in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that 10% of mental health problems among women, including 35% of suicidal behaviors, may be attributable to abortion. Women who had abortions were 81% more likely to experience mental health problems compared to all other control groups, and 55% more likely to have problems compared to women who delivered an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy.

    The increased risk of suicide following abortion has been recognized in Australia as well. A 2013 Queensland Maternal and Perinatal Quality Council report noted: “There appears to be a significant worldwide risk of maternal suicide following termination of pregnancy and, in fact, a higher risk than that following term delivery. The potential for depression and other mental health issues at this time needs to be better appreciated.”
    https://www.lifenews.com/2020/07/15...-abortions-experience-mental-health-problems/
     
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    From an anti-abortion site with an anti-abortion spin. 95% said they made the right decision, many may have regretted having to make that decision, but they thought it was the right one..
     
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    "First hand experience" ... so you've been pregnant.
    Otherwise, you will ALWAYS be a back seat driver on this subject, dude.
    Oh - and you've been regurgitating right wing pundits and politicians in every post you make, so please, just stop with the "objective" bullcrap.
     
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    Asinine, since the whole approach is CHOICE, not FORCING a woman to decide one way or the other.

    Practice what you preach? Let's see if we shove a bowling ball up your butt and decide you must carry it for the next nine months, then we'll
    see if you can "practice what you preach".
     
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    virtualy nobody wants an abortion, it is a choice taken after wieghing all real world options...we dont live in a utopia with black and white options all is gray
    the freedom party shouts about freedom but most of the shouters are men and not so much women, as the women will simply sneak off and have an abortion and keep it secret...par for the course with religious zealots
     
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    Regret and shame primarily come about through societal pressures - not usually through "internal" guilt.

    Take homosexuality. Do homosexuals regret their homosexuality or did they only regret their homosexuality when they are going to be fired, jailed, or killed for it?

    Take pornography. Do people regret pornography? Or do they regret the stigma society attaches to it?

    Do you honestly think people regret their abortion? I don't think women regret their abortions. And the only reason why women may not want to publicize abortion is the stigma attached to it.
    Sorry, but women are not pressured into abortion by the left in the U.S. (They have been pressured by the CCP and other organizations.) If anything they are pressured into abortion by "good" church-going people. Single motherhood is not in any way supported by the "good" church-going christians. So, to stay respectable in such environments, women are forced to get abortions to maintain their position or their parent's position in society. Why does the secular left have to do anything when the leftist church has been encouraging abortion for over a century?
     

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