Posted on 01/08/2014 7:15:19 PM PST by Morgana
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 3, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While abortion advocates have long maintained that late-term abortions are almost always procured by devastated mothers whose babies have received fatal diagnoses and aren’t expected to survive long after birth, an analysis by a network of crisis pregnancy centers of a recent study paints a different picture.
When researchers with CareNet dug into the data of the recent Turnaway Study (see previous coverage here and here), which was conducted by pro-choice advocates, they found that most women in the study who sought late-term abortions were between the ages of 20 and 24 and were in unstable relationships and had financial problems.
These women typically discovered they were pregnant later (12 weeks on average, compared to 5 weeks for those who sought earlier abortions), and were more likely to fight with the father over whether to have the abortion at all. It also took them longer to come up with the money for an abortion.
The CareNet team quoted one woman interviewed by the Turnaway Study’s authors who waited until 21 weeks to seek an abortion because, “I couldn’t afford it.”
“They told me it was going to be $650, [but] by the time I was able to raise the $650, they had to do a different procedure, and so the price went up,” the woman said. “The price jumped to $1,850 … and they don’t take insurance.”
The Turnaway Study tracked around 200 women who were refused abortions. Many of them sought late-term abortions, which was the reason they were turned away.
Chris Slattery, National Director of the EMC FrontLine Pregnancy centers, told LifeSiteNews the study “conforms to our experience” with women facing crisis pregnancies.
“Rarely do we find true medical emergencies amongst those considering abortion in late term pregnancies,” Slattery told LSN. “We often find emotional coercion by family and close friends, abandonment by the father, and financial stress is what most often drives expectant mothers to abort late in pregnancy.”
About 15,000 late-term abortions are performed every year in the U.S. – about 1.5% of the total number.
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“Women who consider late-term abortion often do so from a place of desperation, and, perhaps, fear,” said CareNet CEO Roland Warren. “Yet, abortion only complicates the difficulties in her situation — and late-term abortion involves not only real suffering for the fetus but also serious risks to maternal health.”
Abortion after 20 weeks’ gestation been the subject of considerable controversy over the past year, as mounting scientific evidence that babies begin to feel pain at that stage of development has prompted state and federal legislators to introduce ‘pain-capable unborn child protection’ laws banning the procedure after 20 weeks.
Additionally, the shocking case of Kermit Gosnell, an abortionist convicted of murder for severing the spines of babies born alive after botched procedures at his filthy West Philadelphia clinic, highlighted the irony of laws that say it’s perfectly legal to decapitate fully-grown infants inside the womb, but move the exact same baby just a few inches and seconds, and it becomes a capital offense.
Around the same time Gosnell was convicted, Live Action released a series of undercover videos exposing late-term abortionists as equally willing to murder babies born alive after abortion. And the high profile death of a kindergarten teacher in Maryland after her botched late-term abortion raised public awareness even further, leading many to question why a woman would want to undergo such a risky procedure at all.
I can't begin to tell you how incredibly wrong you are. I have worked directly with pregnant women who came to our pro-life group looking for support. Most of them were being pressured by their mothers/boyfriends/husbands to abort, or they had what they believed to be insurmountable financial issues. The vast majority, however, were pressured by men or their mothers.
So, blame women all you want, but I have talked to them directly, and most of them tell a different story. Additionally, if given a chance, many are looking for another way and will change their minds if given a chance.
Translation: Killing for convenience.
Horse hockey. The only thing that would produce zero abortions is women not getting them.
Face it, every single abortion in this country is performed because a woman asked for the procedure
Doesn't matter. Anything that absolves women of their responsibility for abortion will get universal affirmation...from women.
Since they’ve already gone this far into their pregnancy,
why not adopt out the little tyke?
Again, horse hockey. If pro-lifers were interested in saving babies rather than providing "soup kitchen" services for women, abortion would be as popular as racism.
Entirely irrelevant. No man can compel nor prevent a single abortion in this country.
Pro-Life women admitting that fact would be a first step in changing this failed fight against abortion.
And zero percent of the say on whether there's a birth.
Make all the excuses you want; the number one reason for abortion is a woman obtaining one.
There would never have been a birth had he not had relations. There would never have been a question of abortion had he not had relations. So, technically he had 100 percent say on whether there was an abortion of his child.
Excellent! I agree.
You'd think, right?
Turns out, the prevailing "it's all about me" mindset of American women has ruined adoption, too.
From mandatory open adoption, to negotiated terms of adoption, to failed adoption, there's no such thing as a binding contract with a woman in this country if a child is involved.
There's a reason we went to the other side of the planet when we adopted.
While reviewing my grandparents' effects (after both had died), it became obvious that I am here because they "grew up and faced their responsibilities" ... as opposed to, let us say, killing my father by abortion.
Bull!
The woman has several months to decide if she wants to be a parent, and you have the gall to equate that to the man deciding before he even has relations with her?
Twisted.
Yes, I’ve seen that a lot with people seeking to adopt.
It’s far easier to adopt a girl from china or an entire sibling group from Columbia than it is to adopt a child in America.
In some cases, I think the men are rutting with other men!
As for the women, I think they are morons for not using birth control and not using general protection.
Frankly a huge reason I decided to abstain after breaking up with a boyfriend (nearly ten years of abstinence!) is because if I can’t afford a kid, I should not be having sex!
AS for responsibilities, they’ve been shirking their responsibility to show more respect for themselves and create a lot less baggage in their pasts. They should know by now that even the worst tart feels entitled to respect and a wedding ring.
Fine, then stop dragging men into the discussion of why abortions get performed.
Hell, we're just having an online discussion and women can't help but try to shift blame; what do you think they do when they're justifying their decision when they're really getting an abortion.
“In some cases, I think the men are rutting with other men!”
Yes, but those cases don’t produce any abortions that I know of.
“AS for responsibilities, they’ve been shirking their responsibility to show more respect for themselves and create a lot less baggage in their pasts. They should know by now that even the worst tart feels entitled to respect and a wedding ring.”
You’re saying this is a development that happened before feminism and women in the workforce?
I damn sure wouldn't call it "easier," but if you're interested in guaranteeing the integrity of your family: there's no other choice.
“Most of them were being pressured by their mothers/boyfriends/husbands to abort, or they had what they believed to be insurmountable financial issues. The vast majority, however, were pressured by men or their mothers.”
So what? If a someone gets “pressured” to do drugs, rob a bank, or kill someone, do we let them off the hook because someone “pressured” them? Nope. They made the choice, they are responsible for their actions and decisions, regardless of whether someone “pressured” them.
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