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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Abortion has a lasting effect on women too. I had a girl crying in my arms over hers. We were casually dating, I go to visit her, we are about to have sex and then shes sobbing about some abortion she had at 16.
My family also used to take in teens who were pregnant so they could give birth away from the pressures of family and their friends in school. They gave the kids up for adoption.
I wonder how many of those girls are happy that they didn't abort now years past. I only still know one, shes happy about it.
I can't think many women who gave their children up for adoption are thinking 'Oh this is so horrible, I can't live without knowing who my children are, I wish I had aborted them instead!'
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Nice anecdotes, but completely unsubstantiated by medical studies. ..as far as the girl crying in your arms, I guess you just ooze empathy, but girls/women experience a range of emotions from sadness to relief to happiness.
In fact, studies by Reagan's pro-life Surgeon General Coop, the American Psychological Association and Royal Colleges of Obstetricians and Gynecologists among others have found that an abortion has no more lasting effect on most women's mental health than taking an unwanted pregnancy to term.
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To the more germane question.....IMO, a potential father should be included in the discussion over options, but men will never and should never have an equal voice or equal rights in a woman's reproductive decision......we/they should focus on a dad's equity in child custody battles (there should not be a presumption that the mother would be a better parent), adoption rights, etc.