I cannot tell you exactly how many girls I know who have had an abortion; there are several. The abortion in all the cases I can recall were basically for birth control--at least 2 of the children who were aborted were the result of casual sex with a partner whom they did not know well.
If my question is too intrusive, please, say so: The casual sex "outcome" => how informed were the couple about preventive methods? Age? Drunk? Support from families or not? Do you wish to share with me how the ladies felt before/after the decision and operation?
I'm not asking out of pure curiosity in this case - but your sentence is very short <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/puppyeyes.gif" alt="" /> I don't know very young ladies who did that - only females 29/30+. I simply want to understand, not judge.
Actually this was a long time ago in the 60's or early 70's which is why I can't remember many details. The 2 women I mentioned I only knew in passing; I knew their male partners well. Now that I think on it there were 3 of my friends, not 2 who got girls pregnant. The girls would have been in their late teens or early 20's. Might or might not have been drunk. These were college educated folks who had to have known about preventive methods.
In the 70's I went through several residential sessions to learn a therapy approach similar to Gestalt. IIRC there were several women in my group who had had abortions and they all bore psychological scars--primarily guilt.
Cleglaw
The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? ~Jeremy Bentham
