Some insight into abortion motivation

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Right after the elections, there was a discussion around here about changing the focus of Pro-life actions. This research seems like a good place to start rethinking the approaches:

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The study also enumerated a number of factors that lie behind the decision to keep or to abort, including an umbrella concept (“Psychological Kernel”) with three main findings that ties all the research together:
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Women carry an unwanted pregnancy to term when guilt wins out over shame, when they feel that the pregnancy will not end their own current and future selves, and that the unborn will be better off alive than dead.
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Expanding on each of these three crucial insights is the subject of this article. First, however, it is important to note that none of these three findings have much to do with biology (Is it a baby?), or abstract moral reasoning (Is abortion right or wrong?). Instead, the insights revolve around how the woman feels about herself, and only secondarily about the baby, but only within the context of the woman’s own immediate situation. Understanding this dynamic is essential to reaching these women.
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Read more: americanthinker.com/2013/02/a_new_understanding_of_the_trauma_of_abortion.html#ixzz2NdEOnLKr
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