More women (in the UK) have abortions as it loses stigma

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Women are finding it more acceptable to have an abortion than to drift into an unplanned pregnancy, the head of Britain’s leading abortion agency said yesterday.

Ann Furedi, the chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), said one women in five was now childless at the age of 45 and an increasing number were making the choice not to have children at all.

Ms Furedi said there had been a shift in public opinion about parenthood. The stigma of abortion had diminished but there was now concern about being a poor parent. “Parenting is considered to be very important and is taken seriously these days,” she said. “The idea of just drifting into unplanned motherhood is seen not to be a good thing and you could argue that among many groups of people in society abortion is seen as a more responsible response to being a victim of uncontrolled fertility,” she said. “The bottom line is that it’s now normal for women in their 40s simply to decide not to have children,” said Ms Furedi at the launch of an Ipsos Mori poll into attitudes to abortion.

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[Holly3278]

How sad. We must all pray for an end to abortions everywhere.

 

[Jennifer123]

That is what the COD is trying to do in this country. I remember a major magazine recently having a spread about women being open about their abortion - something like how they were proud of it?

Anyway - these groups are working much like the homosexual lobby IMHO, trying to define the stigma as nothing more than society’s hasty and judgemental attitude towards women who are hurting, who have no other alternatives, etc. as if they are the only ones truly concerned about women and their health. Meanwhile they will shame those who oppose abortion, as they do homosexuality, with heaping amounts of ridicule, labeling us as cold and uncaring.

It’s actually pretty effective. I don’t know why they didn’t do it sooner really . I expect the full treatment in the media, placing abortion in the role as “vicitimized by society” in tv, film, etc.

 

[Crow]

BEING A VICTIM OF UNCONTROLLED FERTILITY!!!

WHAT THE BLEAPING!!!

Talk about taking the responsibility out of your own actions.

 

[dafalax]

I like Dr. Janet Smith’s take on “unplanned motherhood”. She says if you don’t want to go to Milwaukee, why did you get on the train?
Anyway, i think society’s main problem is a lack of shame. No regrets is a dreadful credo to live by. I can think of two people who could have legitimately said that, and they’ve both been dead about 2,000 years.
High school girls should be ashamed when they get pregnant, and so should the boys (and sometimes men) who got them there. They engaged in acts that created life before they were able to care for them. I’m not advocating we stone adulterers, but a scarlet letter might be a good start. And abortion losing its stigma is awful because women and men who kill their unborn babies might not get the grief counseling they need because they think the problem is their own unenlightened selves, not that they bought a lie of the culture of death.