Great piece by you here, Sharon.
One thing you wrote really stuck out at me:
" Just browse any abortion thread on Pandagon or any feminist site and you will get dozens of women who didn't mind at all having an abortion. In other words, for those women, there was no tragedy or pain."
To that I would say this - every woman I have ever known that has had an abortion felt pain, tragedy and loss. If a woman has an abortion and will tell you afterwards that she did not kill a living being, is lying. Now, I do understand that if one goes through that procedure, the mind may tell her that it was "nothing", but in actuality, that is just the body's way of addressing the shock.
Thank you for continuing to write on this subject, Sharon.
I agree with you on this one. I've had pro-choice supporters try to tell me that abortion has no psychological effects on women, but I've never met a woman who had one who hasn't seemed to regret that decision, even if she still says she had no choice.
"who is going to adopt the unwanted black or Latino babies? No one in the burbs so let’s just have that child grow up in a ghetto and be abused and have their best job opportunity be prostitution or selling drugs."
I have doubts that an abortion ban would result in a flood of unwanted underclass minority babies. Underclass minority women are already far less likely than middle-class white women to view abortion as an acceptable choice.
This argument also assumes that these women have no access to birth control which is also untrue as most of them at least start out using it.
Promises I Can Keep, written by two women who actually lived in the inner city among poor women for a number of years, was something of an eye-opener on this topic.
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