Here is an article written by the woman who filmed her own abortion:
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/advice/h...ed-my-abortion
Now I am decidedly in the "Pro-Choice" camp basically out of pragmatism and to maximize liberty. Saying that, I find abortion motivated purely by convenience to be a total abomination and I worry that any society who so nonchalantly accepts such actions as not having values that I think will ensure its long term success. While I don't want government to enforce rules against such incredible selfishness, I would feel better if it were at least looked down upon. Now in full disclosure I am a Conservative Mormon who struggled with infertility for the first 6 years of my marriage, so take that for what it is worth. In any case I found the following paragraph from her article really disheartening:
"I found out I was pregnant in November. I had been working at the clinic for about a year. It was my first pregnancy, and, full disclosure, I hadn't been using any kind of birth control, which is crazy, I know. I’m a sex educator, and I love talking about birth control. Before this experience, hormonal birth control scared me because of complications I’d heard about from friends — gaining weight, depression, etc. So I tracked my ovulation cycle, and I didn’t have any long-term partners. I thought I was OK. But, you know, things happen. I wound up pregnant."
Essentially it appears to me that her concern about what birth control might do to her bothered her enough that she took no precaution because....she has a backstop of abortion. I remember the days when a left leaning publication made an effort to emphasize that abortion was not about convenience in the examples it would provide. Sometimes you are reminded how much you really are "out of touch."
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/advice/h...ed-my-abortion
Now I am decidedly in the "Pro-Choice" camp basically out of pragmatism and to maximize liberty. Saying that, I find abortion motivated purely by convenience to be a total abomination and I worry that any society who so nonchalantly accepts such actions as not having values that I think will ensure its long term success. While I don't want government to enforce rules against such incredible selfishness, I would feel better if it were at least looked down upon. Now in full disclosure I am a Conservative Mormon who struggled with infertility for the first 6 years of my marriage, so take that for what it is worth. In any case I found the following paragraph from her article really disheartening:
"I found out I was pregnant in November. I had been working at the clinic for about a year. It was my first pregnancy, and, full disclosure, I hadn't been using any kind of birth control, which is crazy, I know. I’m a sex educator, and I love talking about birth control. Before this experience, hormonal birth control scared me because of complications I’d heard about from friends — gaining weight, depression, etc. So I tracked my ovulation cycle, and I didn’t have any long-term partners. I thought I was OK. But, you know, things happen. I wound up pregnant."
Essentially it appears to me that her concern about what birth control might do to her bothered her enough that she took no precaution because....she has a backstop of abortion. I remember the days when a left leaning publication made an effort to emphasize that abortion was not about convenience in the examples it would provide. Sometimes you are reminded how much you really are "out of touch."
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