All your statistics makes it very hard to see concern for the lives of real women. You yourself feel discounted when people separate the single mothers into two statistical categories (relating to your own recent post). You the smaller percentage of women who defy statistics.
I was questioning the method of analysis and description, because that was omitted from the text.
I agree that money seems to be the ultimate value, but I don't think that blaming individual women, ESPECIALLY if they don't have any money!, for making a choice to sustain their own economic futures is the way forward. I think we need to look at the bigger systems.
I daresay that when you compare pregnancy and parenting, parenting is the FAR more expensive of the two. Part of the reason why American couples seek overseas adoption is because domestic newborn adoption is very difficult to achieve. If money is the issue, why not carry the child to term and either put him or her up for adoption or, as often happens, decide that the conditions are adjustable and decide to raise your child despite the conditions?
As long as abortion remains a way out of a situation that you don't like - I know a woman who had an abortion with her second pregnancy/child, because her first pregnancy/child was premature and she didn't want to go through another NICU stay! - things won't change. Things change in response to demand for change. If people are content with the status quo, abortion as the answer to a perceived unsustainable "economic future," then nothing will change.
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Date: 2010-05-01 02:03 pm (UTC)I was questioning the method of analysis and description, because that was omitted from the text.
I agree that money seems to be the ultimate value, but I don't think that blaming individual women, ESPECIALLY if they don't have any money!, for making a choice to sustain their own economic futures is the way forward. I think we need to look at the bigger systems.
I daresay that when you compare pregnancy and parenting, parenting is the FAR more expensive of the two. Part of the reason why American couples seek overseas adoption is because domestic newborn adoption is very difficult to achieve. If money is the issue, why not carry the child to term and either put him or her up for adoption or, as often happens, decide that the conditions are adjustable and decide to raise your child despite the conditions?
As long as abortion remains a way out of a situation that you don't like - I know a woman who had an abortion with her second pregnancy/child, because her first pregnancy/child was premature and she didn't want to go through another NICU stay! - things won't change. Things change in response to demand for change. If people are content with the status quo, abortion as the answer to a perceived unsustainable "economic future," then nothing will change.