Written by Michael Thervil
Over the last couple of years there has been a very big debate on the subject of abortion. Issues such as who should and could get it, when they can get it, those who are opposed to it, legality issues, and the notion of “my body my choice” which is something that can be seen as selfish in itself. However, there have been many misconceptions surrounding the topic of abortion rights. Abortion Rights Activists claim that women should be free to choose whether to have an abortion or not, citing crimes against women such as rape, incest and health reasons as being the reason why women should be allowed to have an abortion. People who are anti-abortion are basing their claims on religious text and morality. But the one thing that neither side is talking about is the increased selfishness, and the lack of both accountability and responsibility that women are dodging with it comes to unwanted pregnancies.
In terms of crimes such as rape and incest and the number of women who get abortions the numbers are extremely low. In fact, the numbers are so low that the number wasn’t even mentioned by the National Library of Medicine. But of the number of cases in which rape and incest which resulted in a woman having an abortion only registered out to be 0.3% when the data was captured from “6 states with 101,471 total abortions (FL, MN, NE, OK, SD, UT)”. This accounts for a mere 3,044 cases, so the notion that the reason why the mass majority of women need to have a right to an abortion for this reason becomes nothing more than a “false positive”.
But what is true of most of the reasons why women in America get abortions are of “Elective and unspecified reasons: 95.7%” as reported by the Charlotte Lozier Institute. What could those other “Elective and unspecified reasons” be? Well according to the National Institute of Medicine the consist of the following:
“Women’s reasons for seeking an abortion fell into 11 broad themes. The predominant themes identified as reasons for seeking abortion included financial reasons (40%), timing (36%), partner related reasons (31%), and the need to focus on other children (29%). Most women reported multiple reasons for seeking an abortion crossing over several themes (64%). Using mixed effects multivariate logistic regression analyses, we identified the social and demographic predictors of the predominant themes women gave for seeking an abortion.”
Adding insult to injury, the National Institute of Medicine found the following.
“Having a baby would dramatically change my life” (i.e., interfere with education, employment and ability to take care of existing children and other dependents) (74% in 2004 and 78% in 1987)”
“I can’t afford a baby now” (e.g., unmarried, student, can’t afford childcare or basic needs) (73% in 2004 and 69% in 1987)”
“I don’t want to be a single mother or am having relationship problems” (48% in 2004 and 52% in 1987)”
For those that are thinking that these statistics are old, according to a 2022 statistical survey presented by Medical News Today with research conducted by the BMC Women’s Health found that the most common reasons for women to have an abortion are as follows:
“Financial reason”
“Not the right time to have a baby”
“Partner related issues”
“Need to focus on other children”
“A new baby would interfere with future opportunities”
“Not emotional or mentally prepared”
“Health related reasons”
“What a better life for the baby than what she could provide”
“Lack of maturity or independence”
“Influences from friends and/or family”
“Don’t want a baby or pave baby for adoption”
Being more specific in the research that was conducted it was found that White and Black American women were more likely to have an abortion than compared to Hispanic/Latino and others. The median age for abortions was between the ages of 20-34 with the marital status being single, never married and a correlation of them having more education than a high school degree. This is something to really take a look at because in a nutshell what this boils down to is a correlation of middle aged White and Black American Women being more likely to have more than a high school education and having an abortion to preserve their own self-interest rather some existential threat such as rape, molestation, and incest.
So again, it’s not a problem of rape or incest, or even health issues for that matter – it is a matter of women in America being whores who hate responsibility & accountability. It’s also a matter of the legal system being filled with people who are too weak to make the hard decisions. It’s also a matter of religious organizations being too weak to address this social issue with their congregations. Remember the bullshit you allow – the more bullshit you get. And by allowing women in America to reserve the right to kill children at will because they don’t want to accept the responsibility and be held accountable for their actions does nothing more than promote the further decadence and moral decay of American society.
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