Causes of Abortion

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Women with family incomes below the federal poverty level ($18,530 for a family of three) account for more than 40% of all abortions.

They also have one of the country’s highest abortion rates (52 per 1,000 women).

In contrast, higher-income women (with family incomes at or above 200% of the poverty line) have a rate of nine abortions per 1,000, which is about half the national rate.

Most women identify multiple reasons for having an abortion:
  • 3/4 cite concerns for or responsibility to other individuals, including children;
  • 3/4 say they cannot afford a child;
  • 3/4 say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or the ability to care for dependents;
  • 1/2 say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner.
guttmacher.org/in-the-know/characteristics.html
  • 75% of all abortions are to women under 30.
  • Most women who have abortions are unmarried.
  • When a teenager becomes pregnant, abortion is a likely outcome.
  • Women who have abortions tend to be low income, but that could be a factor of their age rather than their poverty status.
content.thirdway.org/publications/17/Third_Way_Policy_Memo_-_The_Demographics_of_Abortion.pdf

So what are some strategies to reduce abortions among teens?
What are some successful interventions being done in high schools?
 
A way to get teens to stop getting abortions is to target her parents. Sadly, I’ve seen many parents pushing for their teen’s abortion.
 
Michael_Mayo said:
…So what are some strategies to reduce abortions among teens?
What are some successful interventions being done in high schools?
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I wonder. The pregnancy rate of the at-risk teens with whom I work, is mind boggling. I commend that they do not even think of abortion.
When one young ‘man’ (17 years old) was looking at a crib, he wondered how he’d be able to support a child. I said, “I hope you find a way. And knowing that you will have difficulty, do you think that maybe you have no business putting yourself in that predicament in the first place?” He actully said “Yes.”
That child has no chance, in my opinion.
From that perspective, something needs to be done. For this environment, I recommended sex education, as in, “Why not to do it.” But it won’t happen. And so the cycle continues with at-risk kids having at-risk kids.

Every aspect in a teen’s life needs to includes both sides of the sex education. So I wonder how what responses you will receive .
 
It starts at home - good solid foundations of age appropriate sex ed for age appropriate questions.

It is shocking how many girls fall for the “its not a baby yet” lie of planned parenthood. Did none of them have siblings? Did none of them take basic biology classes?

Kick Planned Parenthood style sex ed OUT of schools - its designed to get teens HOOKED on sex- so they can gain MORE customers - for birth control, the inevitable STD or pregnancy, etc… Jason Evert has a secular talk (that leaves out bible references) designed for public schools that would be much better.

Educate about human development a lot better - it goes back to how many girls fall for the lies of “its just tissue”. Show real pictures of ultrasounds, NOT aborted baby pictures. People seem to be afraid of the truth - they don’t want children to see or handle the little plastic baby models for example. Why are they afraid of the TRUTH?
 
I think that we should completely change our approach to sexual education. The modern sexual education tells adolescents that they are being “mature” as long as they are having sex with “protection”. But sadly this is not true: first of all, because no contraceptive can totally prevent STDs or pregnancies and second because even if you didn’t get pregnant or have and STD, there are a lot of psychological damages.
We see teenagers sending naked pictures of themselves for money, sexting, using each other and we ask why… Well, we teached them that sex is for pleasure (or mainly for pleasure) and that your body, your choice. We have to change this prospective: sex is beautiful when you share your bodies because you already share your lives, because you are bond together for good. We have to teach them to love.
 
I don’t think mandatory sex education should exist. Not in schools. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there is an STD Epidemic in this country. Prior to Sex Ed., young people understood sex. However, I have watched women being lied to over the last 40 years. And I mean it. Before, I could take a young lady to dinner and a movie, but today? Dinner, yes. Movie. NO. We both do not need to be exposed to sexual perversity as normative. Movie theaters aren’t classrooms either. What do too many celebrities do nowadays, especially young women? Portray hookers, call girls, fornicators…

And in public? No respect for themselves and in too many cases, their bodies. And sex education is totally neutral - nothing is right or wrong. You’re just taught how to lower - maybe - the odds of not getting STDs. Multiple sex partners? Fine. Sex with strangers? Fine. You can see that on TV.

We do have some good role models out there, but one in particular should be required reading for young women and young men.

amazon.com/Extreme-Makeover-Transformed-Conformed-Culture/dp/1586175610

Commitment. We can be committed to our jobs but why not other people? What happened to right and wrong, good and bad? The big lie is you have “choices” and most of them involve throwaway or temporary situations. Real friendship. Earning the trust of another. Respect for yourself and others. Not using each other like restrooms or until it’s not ‘fun’ anymore.

The big truth is that there is right and wrong.

Ed
 
Something I didn’t do but see now in hindsight I should’ve done - homeschool. If you can’t, then make sure your child does not participate in Sex Ed classes in school. I agree with previous poster - teach them at home. All they do in Sex Ed class is to try to teach kids how to have sex and not get ‘caught.’
 
Perhaps guys need to be targeted. Manhood involves responsibility. Classes in manhood if they do’t get it at home.
 
Michael_Mayo said:
Perhaps guys need to be targeted. Manhood involves responsibility. Classes in manhood if they do’t get it at home.
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Most definitely, but they need to understand that too many women view relationships as about what they can get as opposed to finding a real partner. The true roles of men and women have been totally buried. Abortion - what, when she got pregnant, the man was in another room? “My body, my choice.” That’s the lie being sold. The truth is - “someone got me pregnant and both of us are responsible” and I’m talking about consensual sex.

And if the man has no job? Then what? He didn’t get through high school? Then what? He lives with his mother or a relative? And in an area where few jobs can be found and he does not have a high school diploma?

I know men who ended up divorced and the former wife gets all the control - no, I’m not talking about him abusing her or their child. And what about men who are working and divorced but they barely make enough for their daily needs and child support?

Mentors. Couples who are married and have kids and are around the ages of the people they are talking to or around the ages of their current parent. Mentors who go out into the community and show it can be done. How to live a committed life together.

Societal trends do not happen by themselves. They are created.

singlemotherguide.com/single-mother-statistics/

A man can be committed to his job because there are rules and responsibilities that, if he breaks them often enough, means he is out. Right and wrong need to be brought back into the picture. Before, a man understood that the woman was pregnant with his child – nobody else’s, and he knew the responsibility. But, thanks, in part, to abortion, the tragic legal ‘choice’ seemed to be a good option. And I pray for those who made the choice.

Ed
 
Michael_Mayo said:
Perhaps guys need to be targeted. Manhood involves responsibility. Classes in manhood if they do’t get it at home.
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They aren’t getting it at home. It’s something like 1 in 3 boys has no father in his life.
 
I think that most teenage girls who choose abortion are either coerced into it by parents or boyfriend, or they would not choose it if they thought they would have some support. Some parents refuse to help, but others simply can’t because of financial constraints or other issues. I think if there were more support available for girls, and they were confident that they won’t end up on the street or in poverty if they carry their baby, there would be less abortion in teens.

I think in the case of adults, they’re going to do what they’re going to do, but it doesn’t help that a low-income woman stands a very good chance of losing her job once her boss finds out she is pregnant. Even if she doesn’t lose her job, she often can’t afford even a few weeks of unpaid leave to have the baby and recover, much less if she has an extended recovery, a bed rest order, or her child is born with medical issues that have to be addressed. It may not sway the majority, but I think that stronger laws protecting mothers in the work place, and mandatory paid leave have the potential to stop a large chunk of abortions. I don’t understand why people who are always screaming “women’s rights!” only seem concerned about killing off women’s babies and rarely speak about paid maternity leave. Most advanced countries have mandatory paid maternity leave.
 
Everyone should be taught
Don’t give up want you want, for what you want right now.
 
Two phases to the isse

1 Having sex leading to pregnancy

2 Having the baby or getting abortion

Two aspects requiring different strategies.

1 Education, inspiration, maturity, self respect, career focus, mentoring

2 Support, mentoring
 
Michael_Mayo said:
So what are some strategies to reduce abortions among teens?
What are some successful interventions being done in high schools?
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Good to see these type of questions being asked. normally it’s just the one option touted: don’t have sex.

Refreshing to see that someone thinks there may be more to it than that.
 
If you want to get rid of abortion you are going to have to GREATLY increase the role of the welfare state.
 
cheezey said:
I wonder. The pregnancy rate of the at-risk teens with whom I work, is mind boggling. I commend that they do not even think of abortion.
When one young ‘man’ (17 years old) was looking at a crib, he wondered how he’d be able to support a child. I said, “I hope you find a way. And knowing that you will have difficulty, do you think that maybe you have no business putting yourself in that predicament in the first place?” He actully said “Yes.”
That child has no chance, in my opinion.
From that perspective, something needs to be done. For this environment, I recommended sex education, as in, “Why not to do it.” But it won’t happen. And so the cycle continues with at-risk kids having at-risk kids.

Every aspect in a teen’s life needs to includes both sides of the sex education. So I wonder how what responses you will receive .
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The fact is, no one should be having sex unless they are prepared to be a father or a mother. And the way to be prepared for fatherhood and motherhood is to be married and self supporting. Why does no one explain this? Or do they?

I suppose that children have sex because people like Planned Parenthood and school sex ed programs tell them its fine as long as they use birth control. But birth control fails. They get pregnant. Then they get abortions. They are lied to about sex.
 
JimG said:
The fact is, no one should be having sex unless they are prepared to be a father or a mother. And the way to be prepared for fatherhood and motherhood is to be married and self supporting. Why does no one explain this? Or do they?

I suppose that children have sex because people like Planned Parenthood and school sex ed programs tell them its fine as long as they use birth control. But birth control fails. They get pregnant. Then they get abortions. They are lied to about sex.
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Young people often will not hear what they do not want to hear. PP tells them what they want to hear. I wonder how many pregnancies are the result of promiscuity and how many the result of infatuation.
 
Michael_Mayo said:
Young people often will not hear what they do not want to hear. PP tells them what they want to hear. I wonder how many pregnancies are the result of promiscuity and how many the result of infatuation.
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I believe that young people will hear the truth if they are told the truth. In any case, the results of sexual promiscuity surround them and are obvious. Do they think that a 42% to 72% out of wedlock pregnancy rate is an ineluctable fact of nature, caused perhaps by climate change?
 
The point is, Sex Education in public schools is neutral but watch a movie or turn on the TV. What do people see? Sex, sex and more sex, usually without consequences. Condoms are not 100% effective. But hey, it’s better than nothing, right? No.

If we do not promote the idea that sex is primarily about children then multiple partner sex, sex with strangers and even unprotected sex is OK, because someone is “sure this time.” Real life is far different.

Abortion, the morning after pill… It seems that having sex is more important than WHY you’re having sex. Two healthy people increase their odds of pregnancy the more they have sex, with strangers, multiple partners or someone you picked up for a fling.

The odds of not getting pregnant keep dropping. Abortion is called a choice. You’re not having one because you’re going to have a ‘blob of tissue.’ It’s about a baby.

Ed
 
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