Huh. I am not surprised, not one bit. The findings really confirm my thoughts about the issue of abortion. It isn’t about a woman’s choice, it’s about the MORALITY of that choice.I am ill.
Interesting as I was just reading Is the Recession Causing More Abortions? where some clinics are performing up to 15% more abortions this time of year than last…I’m more inclined to pay attention to this article’s pollsters as they name a rather large sample size and did in-depth interviews with the women going opting for abortions.
Is it money, lack of morality or self-sacrifice that’s driving women (& their partners) towards the clinic because they can’t, or won’t, afford a baby right now? I’m sure the religious right with choose “morals” but I don’t think this issue is that simple…Even if you have no money and a pro-life health center promises to “help” with your baby they won’t be there forever, is it fair to lure people in with the promise of support and then yank it away once the mother and child get beyond infancy?
The older and closer I get to my “ideal mother age” (~30) the more complicated this issue gets for me, though I think I’ll always be pro-choice.
Everybody can relax. I’d predict that abortion is an issue that will decline in terms of political significance the farther we get into future and as more young people enter the political fray. There are more women’s and other social issues that are arguably more achievable in terms of realizing solutions to them (men/women pay gap, gay marriage, drugs) and there are not any significant problems with our current abortion regime other than maybe the partial birth abortion ban and the fact that the Medicaid doesn’t pay for abortions. Access is fairly easy and some restrictions like parental notification and waiting periods are a little sketch but not huge issues. Not only that, but the abortion debate is so thorny that it is such a pain to enter the fray and make any progress in either direction that many will probably get too discouraged to even try. Especially when they can focus their energies on other issues that seem like solutions are achievable—like preventing our world from becoming “Wall-E”-esque wasteland (who doesn’t want that?). Can I have a snow cone now?
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