Submitted Question 5 - Abortion
16 years ago
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I have a 4 year old son, and am pregnant with a little girl. My best friend in the whole world just found out she was pregnant. I was really happy for her, but she says she is thinking about aborting the child. This is against mt beliefs, and her reasoning is all wrong. While I realize it is her right to get an abortion, she said, and I quote, "Thank god for abortion, or I would be swamped with kids already." This really makes me want to consider not being friends with her.
So, here is my question. As a parent, how do I explain to someone who keeps getting pregnant and aborting that what she is doing is wrong and there are other methods to not having children? And should I really be friends with a person who has such a different view on abortion than me? I'm sure as parents, you can all understand a bit about how much I was appalled by her comment.
So, here is my question. As a parent, how do I explain to someone who keeps getting pregnant and aborting that what she is doing is wrong and there are other methods to not having children? And should I really be friends with a person who has such a different view on abortion than me? I'm sure as parents, you can all understand a bit about how much I was appalled by her comment.
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Second of all, i'm all for pro choice and all but there are some limits. I mean if you've had ... lets say four abortions and you have nothing wrong with you medically or mentally (altho four abortions, theres SOMETHING wrong with you) then you ... should get cut off from having any more? I dunno how to explain it.
For some of us, the risk of getting pregnant again could give us the possibility of killing us. So there lies the question, risk your own death or the death of your fetus... or both by trying to carry it full term. To me, then abortion is acceptable. Or an underage girl that is the victim of rape and does not wish to keep a reminder of what happened. yes. I know someone that happened to. Except she kept it, and gave it up for adoption. Always an option as well.
I dunno what to say. To each their own but to me, its a teeter totter of opinion.
Honestly, I've taken ALL POSSIBLE STEPS to insure I don't get there (and this is probably TMI) but I don't use protection. I use pills and I have a calender which I add my monthly visitor to and it tells me when I'm most fertile, and I try to avoid those days. If worse comes to worse, there is even the morning after pill which $50 at the local pharmacy if you have a little regret afterword or are scared.
I believe it's not my say to decide if someone should carry a child, it's your own body you can have/do to it what you want but personally, I don't think I could go through with it if put in the situation (it just makes me squeamish knowing there's crap inside me scraping my insides >.<). I know people who have had 3-4 no problem... and my best friend's aunt had 1 and she couldn't ever have children again. People need to know intelligently the risks they could possibly put themselves through and not just from the surgery, but the after surgery and possible infection. I don't like adoption that well because I feel people abuse it like abortion... they have 20 kids and give each up, who sometimes get loving families, or who sometimes get bad ones... or get lost in the system. It's like playing Russian roulette with a loaded gun, you don't know how the child will end up.
My whole "thing" is education. Working in medical fields runs in the family and I was taught from a VERY young age how everything works and birth control. I've seen mothers as young as 12 and it's sad, had someone intervened young enough they might have not gotten to that point (my mother put the fear of god in me and didn't hold back I'll say that much XD and it worked).
Maybe she just doesn't know there are things she can do to try to help prevent it, even if she doesn't like using protection. I suggest sitting her down, flat out telling her shes abusing it (prepare for backlash because it may not be nice) and say you can suggest some items (such as a sponge, foam contraceptives, or even birth control pills which I get for free from a women and childrens clinic/planned parenting). While you do have to buy foam and sponges (they don't give those out just condoms) you do get the pills for free. I get a generic version of Yasmin and the doctor has more than one type there he can work with her until she finds one that works for her.
AND IF SHE PULLS THE ALL NATURAL SHIT ON YOU (which I've heard this before, people not wanting to take pills, or put things into their body) I'd suggest withdrawing and this website:
http://www.henriettesherbal.com/faq.....abortives.html
It lists herbal birth controls (and as you see abortives but that's optional). So, there's no excuse basically.