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I found this interesting when questioning why women have abortions.
WHY DO ABORTIONS OCCUR?
In 2004, the Guttmacher Institute anonymously surveyed 1,209 post-abortive women from nine different abortion clinics across the country. Of the women surveyed, 957 provided a main reason for having an abortion. This table lists each reason and the percentage of respondents who chose it.
PercentageReason
<0.5%Victim of rape
3%Fetal health problems
4%Physical health problems
4%Would interfere with education or career
7%Not mature enough to raise a child
8%Don't want to be a single mother
19%Done having children
23%Can't afford a baby
25%Not ready for a child
6%Other
The state of Florida records a reason for every abortion that occurs within its borders each year. In 2020, there were 74,868 abortions in Florida. This table lists each reason and the percentage of abortions that occurred because of it.
PercentageReason
0.01%The pregnancy resulted from an incestuous relationship
0.15%The woman was raped
0.20%The woman's life was endangered by the pregnancy
0.98%There was a serious fetal abnormality
1.48%The woman's physical health was threatened by the pregnancy
1.88%The woman's psychological health was threatened by the pregnancy
20.4%The woman aborted for social or economic reasons
74.9%No reason (elective)
WHY DO ABORTIONS OCCUR?
In 2004, the Guttmacher Institute anonymously surveyed 1,209 post-abortive women from nine different abortion clinics across the country. Of the women surveyed, 957 provided a main reason for having an abortion. This table lists each reason and the percentage of respondents who chose it.
PercentageReason
<0.5%Victim of rape
3%Fetal health problems
4%Physical health problems
4%Would interfere with education or career
7%Not mature enough to raise a child
8%Don't want to be a single mother
19%Done having children
23%Can't afford a baby
25%Not ready for a child
6%Other
The state of Florida records a reason for every abortion that occurs within its borders each year. In 2020, there were 74,868 abortions in Florida. This table lists each reason and the percentage of abortions that occurred because of it.
PercentageReason
0.01%The pregnancy resulted from an incestuous relationship
0.15%The woman was raped
0.20%The woman's life was endangered by the pregnancy
0.98%There was a serious fetal abnormality
1.48%The woman's physical health was threatened by the pregnancy
1.88%The woman's psychological health was threatened by the pregnancy
20.4%The woman aborted for social or economic reasons
74.9%No reason (elective)
Cool but he hasn't answered the question. Maybe stop deflecting for extremists on "your side" and see how you feel about him if he is forced to own his position. As a reminder he was a supporter of the Jan 6th movement. Maybe stop defending him before he has a chance to speak and let him explain his views.
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Can’t afford a baby or career limiting situation seems to be awfully high on that list. Seems to me if we as a community can help these potential mothers and the potential mothers can trust that the community will help them we’d have a lot less abortions. That’s kind of what I’m alluding to with my question. Maybe if we as a community can help hard to do mothers, we’d be better off reducing abortions whether abortions were legal or illegal. If you’re not willing to contribute to the community to help then you really don’t have any moral high ground. Just because people don’t approve of abortions doesn’t mean they don’t contribute to the problem from inaction. Most abortions I find repugnant are a symptom to a more underlying problem.
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Yeah, this argument has been made several times by several people in this thread and I just felt compelled to point out that tons of people are actually stepping up and have been for a long time. I fully expect that they will continue to do so. My intent was not to deflect or defend anyone. I don’t recall any of this being directed at you…Maybe take your own advice?
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10-year-old denied abortion in Ohio, forced to travel to Indiana (msn.com)
I assume people who are against abortion would fully expect the little 10 year old girl's body to try to carry the baby to full term or hold on until the 7th month to get a Cesarean, depending on the doctor's advice, and doubly so, if the girl begged to be a mother. As they see it, the girl's mother or other relative could take care of the baby, while the girl is at school. Or give baby up for adoption. The male who got the girl pregnant should be in big trouble for statutory rape, but article makes no mention of that.
Hopefully, we're not trying to become a nation where government legally expects little children to give birth to children. Candidates running for government need to be asked if that is what they support and vote against them if they say yes or refuse to give a clear answer, which is NO! I bet Mullin's answer would be YES! Gov. Noem of SD, is a good example of a Republican politician who can't say NO! Or Yes, either.
The above is an example of further horror stories that are bound to come and may be worse. This Texas woman was able to get to an out of state doctor in plenty of time to save her life from a pregnancy gone bad. But will other women be able to do the same? No woman should have to wait for an abortion until a dangerous pregnancy actually has her near death. The longer the abortion is delayed, the higher is the medical risk to her life.
Texan has out-of-state abortion for dangerous pregnancy | Fort Worth Star-Telegram
I assume people who are against abortion would fully expect the little 10 year old girl's body to try to carry the baby to full term or hold on until the 7th month to get a Cesarean, depending on the doctor's advice, and doubly so, if the girl begged to be a mother. As they see it, the girl's mother or other relative could take care of the baby, while the girl is at school. Or give baby up for adoption. The male who got the girl pregnant should be in big trouble for statutory rape, but article makes no mention of that.
Hopefully, we're not trying to become a nation where government legally expects little children to give birth to children. Candidates running for government need to be asked if that is what they support and vote against them if they say yes or refuse to give a clear answer, which is NO! I bet Mullin's answer would be YES! Gov. Noem of SD, is a good example of a Republican politician who can't say NO! Or Yes, either.
The above is an example of further horror stories that are bound to come and may be worse. This Texas woman was able to get to an out of state doctor in plenty of time to save her life from a pregnancy gone bad. But will other women be able to do the same? No woman should have to wait for an abortion until a dangerous pregnancy actually has her near death. The longer the abortion is delayed, the higher is the medical risk to her life.
Texan has out-of-state abortion for dangerous pregnancy | Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Everyone has an opinion, nothing wrong with it. We all have an opinion on abortion, some of us agree with the right to choose, and some of us don’t want the woman to have the choice. And that’s fine, you’re allowed to have that opinion, but it doesn’t mean it’s your business. Just like maybe I’m not attracted to fat women, but it’s none of my business that some guys are attracted to fat women. I think it’s gross, but what do I care? It’s not my business.
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This is a smoke screen. I would gladly support state legislation that allows for abortions by rape victims or those where a medical doctor deems the procedure necessary to protect the life of the mother. That won't change anything for people that want to allow abortion for convenience. There will just be another straw man.
I agree with the last two posts, but from a high level perspective for many of you others, let’s not forget the bottom line here: The recent SC decision did absolutely NOTHING to prevent her from getting an abortion, other than a large gas bill for driving 3 hours to a neighboring state.
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