Indeed. Again, I know a number of women who are really, really opposed to abortion - who have had one themselves, or who have taken a member of their immediate family to have one. (I also know a couple who were certain that if they became unexpectedly pregnant, they would immediately seek an abortion - who didn't!)
RELStuart wrote: I do want to point out that even women that have abortions because they choose not have a child are not automatically some sort of repulsive evil creature. As jewelsong pointed out usually anyone that has an abortion only makes that choice after agoinizing over it....
It's all very well to talk (maybe condescendingly?) about women who have an abortion because they "just don't want a baby" - as if not wanting a baby (for whatever reason) isn't the primary reason for having a first trimester abortion. And to imagine that you, yourself, would never, under any circumstances, do such a thing.
Point is - you don't know what you would do. You really, really don't. You think you know. You know how you feel now. You know what you'd like to believe you would do. But...it's different when it's YOUR abortion.
There was an article a few years back (I think in the New Yorker) about abortion clinic workers and doctors and how they deal with the people on the picket lines. One thing almost all the clinics said is that it was not unknown or even that uncommon for one of the "regular picketers" to come into the very same clinic for an abortion. When asked why, the patient (or the patient's mother) always claimed that this particular circumstance was exceptional. Next day, they'd be back on the picket line.
It's different when it's you. It's different when it's YOUR abortion.
And when it comes to late-term abortions, I agree with Elli...we should MYOB. What these women go through is horrible and not for ANY of us to judge.