"The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion"

kwright · #1 (**permalink**) 03-27-2006, 06:46 AM

"The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion"

When the Anti-Choice Choose

By Joyce Arthur

Copyright © September, 2000

Abortion is a highly personal decision that many women are sure they'll never have to think about until they're suddenly faced with an unexpected pregnancy. But this can happen to anyone, including women who are strongly anti-choice. So what does an anti-choice woman do when she experiences an unwanted pregnancy herself? Often, she will grin and bear it, so to speak, but frequently, she opts for the solution she would deny to other women -- abortion.

Although few studies have been made of this phenomenon, a study done in 1981 (1) found that 24% of women who had abortions considered the procedure morally wrong, and 7% of women who'd had abortions disagreed with the statement, "Any woman who wants an abortion should be permitted to obtain it legally." A 1994/95 survey (2,3) of nearly 10,000 abortion patients showed 18% of women having abortions are born-again or Evangelical Christians. Many of these women are likely anti-choice. The survey also showed that Catholic women have an abortion rate 29% higher than Protestant women. A Planned Parenthood handbook on abortion notes that nearly half of all abortions are for women who describe themselves as born-again Christian, Evangelical Christian, or Catholic. (4)

http://talk.sheknows.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=874

some very intersting things in the article. Can't fit it all, so the rest is at the link.

sweet pickles · #2 (**permalink**) 03-27-2006, 07:25 AM

I know somebody like this IRL. She is the staunchest pro life person I know but she had an abortion and claims the abortion caused her to be even more pro life but I'm pretty sure if she were in the same situation again, she'd do the same thing. It reminds me of how the politicians out there preaching against school choice send their own kids to private school. Their kids are too good for private schools but public schools are just fine for all of the other kids. Hypocrites.

sweet pickles · #3 (**permalink**) 03-27-2006, 07:26 AM

Correction - that should read Their kids are too good for public schools but public schools are just fine for all of the other kids.

avolk · #4 (**permalink**) 03-27-2006, 07:43 AM

I also know someone like this who had an abortion. More surprising to me was that her parents are also strongly pro-life and Catholic, but when their little girl got pregnant, they supported her getting an abortion. I guess it's easier to oppose it in theory, but not so clear-cut when it suddenly affects your own family.