In response to my grandfather's responce to my last post on facebook:
And I agree that the fewer abortions the better. I'm still with Trusting Women because I honestly believe that every woman who gets an abortion has a good reason. Abortions are inconvenient, expensive, physically painful (thought probably not as much as giving birth) and women know the risk of being condemned by a large part of society (called a murderer the rest of their life.) I don't think anyone in the US gets an abortion unless they really needed to. I think in the US abortion is unusual (unlike China and some other countries where abortion is the main method of birth control, sadly.) Anyway, hopefully with better access to birth control under Obamacare fewer US women will have unwanted pregnancy and women won't have to worry so much about not being able to afford health care for a pregnancy and 18 years of a child's life.
Also, we should do a better job of educating everyone about how pregnancies happen- even I had an accidental pregnancy and I should know that two weeks after going off the pill is exactly when I would be fertile.
And, we need to make sure men know that they should not push women into intercourse - that that is criminal - not cool behavior. The good news is that cutting down on sexual assault will also reduce unwanted pregnancies.
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