But that's nearly nil. How many women do you actually think are getting abortions at 8 months? I mean hell at eight months you cannot even hide the fact. Most women choosing to have an abortion at 8 months are probably doing so for reasons dealing with pre-natal conditions.
Well, no. Per a 1987 study on reasons for later term (after 16 weeks) abortions:
71% Woman didn't recognize she was pregnant or misjudged gestation
48% Woman found it hard to make arrangements for abortion
33% Woman was afraid to tell her partner or parents
24% Woman took time to decide to have an abortion
8% Woman waited for her relationship to change
8% Someone pressured woman not to have abortion
6% Something changed after woman became pregnant
6% Woman didn't know timing is important
5% Woman didn't know she could get an abortion
2% A fetal problem was diagnosed late in pregnancy
More recent comments from two doctors who specialize in abortions:
"If there is any other single factor that inflates the number of late abortions, it is youth. Often, teen-agers do not recognize the first signs of pregnancy. Just as frequently, they put off telling anyone as long as they can."[Los Angeles Times Magazine]
About three-fourths of Tiller's late-term patients, Jarman said, are teen-agers who have denied to themselves or their families they were pregnant until it was too late to hide it. [Kansas City Star]
What the above tells me is that education will solve most of the problems that result in late term abortions. The 2% are a tiny fraction of the overall later term abortions.
For those who are not seeking an abortion due to some pre-natal condition I still think there needs some careful thought since there are still impediments to receiving an early abortion. Its not as if the majority of women who seek abortion are doing so late in the game.
Definitely agreed there.
No Bilvon they don't care. Can't you see that?
No because I know some of these people personally, and their expressed opinion to me overrides what you imagine their opinion to be.
What they care about is their beliefs, they don't care about children or women.
Let me tell you about one of these people who "doesn't care about children or women." His name is Brian, and I went to college with him. He was our hockey team captain and while he was as aggressive as anyone else on the ice ("Hit him, Gene! Don't let him get away with that!") he never swore and he didn't drink. He was very much anti-abortion, and was active in the school's church.
After graduation I lost track of him and caught up to him at a reunion. He was married with three kids, and was financially supporting two others. Their parents had wanted abortions because they didn't think they could afford to have a child, and he pledged to support them financially so they would avoid the abortion. (He actually made that pledge to five parents total, but three realized they could make it without his help after the child was born.)
This is someone who you would describe as "not caring about children or women?" If so, how many children outside your family do you support?
Most of the pro-life people you hear about are in the media because they are extremist. Most of the pro-life people in reality are pretty boring. They oppose abortion because they think it's killing an innocent child and they think that there must be an overwhelming reason (like 'the mother will die') to consider such a heinous procedure. Again I disagree - but they are not the woman-haters you make them out to be, just as I am certain you are not the child-hater the extremists might make you out to be.
Late term abortions in Denmark and the US are not similar since in Denmark its done mostly for reasons of health and in the US its done for reasons of health and difficulties getting access to first trimester abortion either for financial reasons, difficulty finding a provider or fear.
No, most of them are doing it because they didn't realize they were pregnant. I strongly suspect the Danes have the same issues - do you have any evidence that that's not the case?
A woman who has an abortion isn't doing so because she "believes" in abortion. She is doing so out need.
Again a silly argument, because all one has to do is show that there is no medical or financial reason that a woman "needs" an abortion and the anti-abortion crowd scores another win.
Women get abortions because they WANT to get abortions, for any number of reasons, most of which are honestly no business but their own. That should be the right being protected.