stretched said:
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“Is abortion an acceptable price to pay for the sexual pleasure?”
* No. But then, not everyone who has sex, falls pregnant, OR has an abortion.
You have it backwards.
"If I won't become pregnant, then I will have sex and enjoy it" -- this is how you think a woman thinks, or better, SHOULD think.
Sex, and the willingness to abort, is propagated by the media as the acceptable price of a man's love.
Girls and young women are facing a great burden. Not yet having developed personalities and a sense of their own will and rights, they will buy into whatever they get told. But it is *them* who pays the price, not the media.
There goes the pattern:
1. You must have a boyfriend, or you are a freak and a loser.
2. In order to keep the boyfriend, you must have sex with him, or he will leave you.
3. If you fall pregnant, be ready to abort because you can't afford a child; also, your boyfriend will most likely leave you if you decide to keep the child.
4. Accept it that your body is intrinsically flawed; it *should* not conceive, but it does. It is you and you alone who must make up for this flaw.
Stretched, would you like to be a woman, and thus facing such things?
Would you like to be a 17-year old girl with such a mindset, and seeing no other option?
Being "normal" comes above every other concern. Having a boyfriend or being married is still, by many people, considered as the standard of normalcy. No matter what the cost.
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(Q) said:
There are dozens of examples and scenarios where it is necessary to abort a fetus, either for the sake of the parent(s) or the unborn child itself. ie. rape victims, down syndrome, poverty, etc.
Those are actually side issues. The main one is that some people wish that abortion were treated as yet another regular contraceptive method. Meaning that men would be completely absolved from any responsibility whatsoever.
The more such a view of abortion is encouraged, the more women are viewed as having intrinsically flawed bodies (since they can conceive, which, in the context of sex for pleasure, is a bad thing).
The more women will hate themselves for it.
And we get one half of the world's population hating themselves for what they are.
Potentially one half of the world's population being self-hating, or mindless and indifferent creatures with a slit between their legs.
How many women do you know who are proud and happy of being female and able to conceive and bear children?