In a field of research with very very little consensus, it is clear that when a child is wanted–and the mother aborts–depression results.
This article shocks me. And I don’t shock easily. (I think I stopped shocking so easily way back in my Masters with my focus on Holocaust studies. I just needed to learn the material and get my degree. Excellent professors encouraged it, by the way; they didn’t want emotionally-outraged students in the classroom, so we learned to discuss the Holocaust in dispassionate terms.)
I am shocked by news that abortion clinics see women with wanted children who are aborting because they can’t afford it–and no one goes off to raise funds to help them keep the baby.
And this article reports how raising money for the abortion is supposedly deemed compassionate.
What a twisted world.
‘This was a desired pregnancy — she’d been getting prenatal care — but they re-evaluated expenses and decided not to continue,’ said Dr. Pratima Gupta. ‘When I was doing the options counselling, she interrupted me, crying, and said, ‘Dr. Gupta, I just walked here for an hour. I’m sure of my decision.'”
Other doctors are hearing similarly wrenching tales. For many Americans, the recession is affecting their most intimate decisions about sex and family planning. Doctors and clinics are reporting that many women are choosing abortions and men are having vasectomies because they cannot afford a child.
Planned Parenthood of Illinois clinics performed an all-time high number of abortions in January, many of them motivated by the women’s economic worries, said CEO Steve Trombley, who declined to give exact numbers. Abortions at Planned Parenthood’s St. Louis-area clinics were up nearly 7% in the second half of 2008 from a year earlier.
No one ever thought of adoption, either. Many, but not everyone, are feeling the pinch. And I’m quite sure we have the funds to help out here. This is the result of a pro-abortion status quo, that the Vicki Saportas of this world get busy raising abortion funds with my tax dollars (she’s American, but you get my point) instead of raising money for other avenues that don’t involve the death of the child and the subsequent depression of the mother. Well done.
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Tanya adds: I sincerely don’t understand. I know a woman who, a few years ago, ended a wanted pregnancy due to some financial issues. Two months later, when she normally would have been well into her second trimester, the family’s financial problems resolved themselves. Since then, she’s been trying to get pregnant again.
A few months back, I had a dentist’s appointment that I had to cancel because some expensive doohickey went on the car. No biggie. I just rescheduled.
Pregnancy is not a dentist’s appointment.
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That is absolutely heartbreaking.
It’s amazing to me how abortion is the default solution for many problems. Not enough money? get an abortion. Husband left you? get an abortion. Have to pay a heavy mortgage? get an abortion. It’s only smart isn’t it? Don’t involve these parasites into your life unless everything else is controlled to a level you can tolerate them.
Never mind the real issue are what, effective saving, improved awareness, building up your own life and becoming independent, reaching out to the community resources to better your living situation… Sorry, my point is simply this: Abortion solves none of the actual problems in that woman’s life! Sure, you’re out a baby, but where did that actually get you? Authentic happiness? Guess you’ll have to look somewhere else for that. Oh wait. Right.
And if that isn’t enough, people are people. People matter more than money. Reading Tanya’s comment incenses me because clearly, we forget that. All the time.