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Originally posted by sleuth
reason % of abortions
rape or incest 1 (0.4-1.3)
mother has health problems 3 (2.8)
possible fetal health problems 3 (3.3)
unready for responsibility (21)
is too immature or young to have child (12.2)
woman's parents want her to have abortion <0.5
has problems with relationship or wants to avoid single parenthood (14.1)
husband or partner wants her to have abortion (1)
has all the children she wanted or all children are grown (7.9)
can't afford baby now (21.3)
concerned about how having baby would change her life (16)
doesn't want others to know she had relations or is pregnant (1)
other (3)
Hmmmm......the damn chart thingy won't paste. I tried to break it up as cleanly as possible.
The reasons in red are the reasons you presented, Slueth. As you can see (and as I already knew), they don't account for much. The guy forceing the girl to do it is almost non existent, and the low percentage of women who have all the children they want already I pressume are married in "nice and decent families", so there goes that theory. The reasons in blue are the only ones that could possibly be up for consideration as "legit" or necessary. Most of us agreed that these would be acceptable exceptions. But unfortunately, as you can see (and I stated early on in this thread), they don't add up to much, either.
As I had roughly estimated early on, about 85% of abortions are due to the more....shall we say...selfish reasons? (I'm willing to bet the percentage is in all reality higher, but some of these girls would rather not admit to aborting due to their irresponsibility, and may make up excuses for it). Therefore, it is impossible to have a conversations about abortion without a large portion of it revolveing around the more promiscuous women. This isn't for the purpose of being derogatory. I'm just stating facts.
It does sound like you're tyring to let yourself off the hook by creating an exception. Just as we are blaming the women for knowing what men are, and allowing them to do what they want anyway, does the same not apply to men knowing what we are, and that women "blame us for everything", yet going through with/not fighting the act? And the whole "I don't care what anyone else says, if you disagree, you're wrong" tells me you may be feeling guilty about what you did. You know the counter arguement before it's even made, because your conscience has made it with you already.
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