This is probably the only topic I could go into an apopletic fit of rage over. All those poor children never even had a damn chance. How many scientists, scholars, priests, prophets, artists and writers have we unknowingly lost?
What is the most shameless is that it is legal! How can any ‘law’ betray a woman and her child like this? Moral law should not be circumvented.
As jdm points out, there’s fuzzy math here. I think they are inferring that 10% of the women who abort are over age 45!
I have always been against abortion. I have also always been pro-choice. Against abortion comes first, pro-choice second. That pisses a lot of Freepers off and some don’t understand that stance but that’s the way it is.
I also fully support anything to prevent abortions from happening except making them blanketly illegal across the board. For example I fully support requiring an ultrasound be performed and the mother SEE the baby before an abortion (I thought that was the best idea ever).
That being said, this article didn’t put me into a rage, but it did give me great sadness.
Later in the article I find that abortion rates were about the same whether they were legal or illegal. This filled me with even greater sadness because obviously the legality isn’t what makes a mother choose to abort her pregnancy.
It’s how children anymore are seen as a burden instead of a blessing. How schools, media, and yes even sometimes religious organization don’t consider a child a child until it is actually born (until then it’s called a fetus).
I want to say more but I can’t form the words right now unfortunately.