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[novapsyche]

Owning Up to Abortion

Abortion is legal - it's just not supposed to be mentioned or acknowledged as an acceptable option.

[...] At least 30 million American women have had abortions since the procedure was legalized, mostly for the kind of reasons that anti-abortion people dismiss as "convenience" - a number that amounts to about 40 percent of American women. Yet in a 2003 survey conducted by a pro-choice group, only 30 percent of women were unambivalently pro-choice, suggesting that there may be an appalling number of women who are willing to deny others the right that they once freely exercised themselves.

Comments

[guttaperk.livejournal.com]

I don't understand.

Why is ambivalence presented as something negative, especially with regard to an issue as complex as abortion?

I know of no intelligent position on abortion that is not ambivalent to some degree, even if certain aspects of that position are firmly held.

[guttaperk.livejournal.com]

And while I certainly don't agree with the idea that abortions for medical reasons are "not really abortions", neither do I see the sense in claiming that all abortions must be morally equivalent.

This really doesn't seem like a good article. It draws attention to an important and unfortunate phenomenon, but does not do it justice.