Abortions typically occur because the mothers of the babies want the abortions to occur. Women aren’t the victims. The babies are the victims.
Trust me, I’ve been posting these too long BOTH ARE.
I’m sorry but there are thousands upon thousands of women who have stated that they were forced into their abortions by others around them. Most of these women have said that they wanted to keep their babies, but found no support for an unplanned pregnancy, and they regretted their abortions nonetheless.
I agree that the babies are always victims, but there are plenty of instances where the women have been victimized also.
That means that only 10% of the women would try to get an abortion if it were illegal.
Translate that to today. 90% of the women going into abortion clinics do have qualms of conscience, but because it is legal, then it is all right to go ahead with it.
Another point - most women have to be talked into having an abortion. It may begin in the sex ed class, where it is taught to be a natural event. It happens when a girl tells her boyfriend and her parents that she is pregnant and they all convince her to get rid of it. Most Hispanic women who enter an abortion clinic pat their tummies just before they reach for the door.
I was at a clinic one time praying on the sidewalk and an older man, we presumed to be the father, drove into the parking lot with two of his daughters (?) in the back seat. He forced them both out of the car and they all went into the clinic. When we called to him he told us to shut the hell up. I don't know if both of them were pregnant but going into the clinic was not their decision.
After spending many years observing first hand what happens, it is not fair to lay the entire blame on the girl.
But getting back to the Guttmacher study, PP is in the fight for their lives. If abortion is ever declared null and void in this land then we will have only 10% of the women seeking abortion who would actually work to get an abortion regardless of the law.