Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Women don't usually abort due to a crisis but for convenience

Data from 2018 show that the vast majority of women don't kill their unborn daughters to save their own lives or because they've been raped but because they just don't want the baby they voluntarily conceived.

Fewer than 1.5% of abortions were due to non-life threatening physical health issues and only 0.3% were when the mothers life was at risk.  2% were due to psychological problems, which includes things like being depressed.

Only 0.14% of women who killed their unborn babies did so because they were raped and 0.01% occurred because of incest.

The reality is that the vast majority of abortions occur because women had consensual sex and didn't want to deal with the consequences of their actions.  The reality is that no form of contraception, other than abstinence, is perfect--a typical woman has a 40% chance of an unplanned pregnancy when using the Pill for example--so women know that every sex act risks pregnancy.

But women continue to have sex with men who won't be there for them because that's what society is telling them they have to do. Women are lied to about contraception and then they're told that it's ok if the father just walks away.  That puts many women into a tough spot where it's easy for them to give in and just kill their daughter rather than accept their responsibility.

We need to be sympathetic to those women but it doesn't change the fact that they're killing their unborn child just to avoid the consequences of their own freely chosen action.

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