Abortion Hurts Women
Abortion may be legal, but it is not safe.? Abortion advocates regularly sue to stop laws that simply make abortion centers abide by the same health standards as real medical clinics.? As a result, abortions are largely unregulated and unsupervised.? Abortionists are typically the least-talented, most-predatory practitioners in the medical field.? Most real doctors don’t want to be involved in this dirty business.? So, to increase the dwindling supply of death practitioners, pro-abortion groups agitate for laws that force health professionals to participate in and perform abortions.? A popular myth, unsupported by evidence, is that tens of thousands of back alley abortions occurred annually before Roe v. Wade.? True, dangerous abortions did occur, but Roe did not stop them, it just allowed the same abortionists to hang their signs in the front window.? Women still die from abortion.? They suffer infections, punctures, bleeding, permanent infertility, and sexual abuse by abortionists.? Abortion advocates contend that childbirth, a natural and healthy process, is more dangerous than abortion.? The truth is, abortion injuries are underreported, and complications like ectopic pregnancy are often caused by previous abortions.? Abortion wreaks emotional havoc on women.? The bond between mother and child was never meant to be severed by violence.? Women who have abortions suffer increased rates of depression, substance abuse, suicide, and numerous other pathologies.? Women most often have abortions not because they are exercising “choice,” but because they feel they have no choice.? Many are pressured into abortion by boyfriends, parents, and sexual abusers who want to hide the evidence.? And more than half of all the babies killed in abortion are girls.? They are denied equal rights.? Nearly every early feminist recognized that abortion is an insulting, degrading experience.? Women deserve better.
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The points you make here seem to be as follows:
- Regulations on abortion clinics are sometimes inadequate or ill-enforced.
- Some women experience complications.
- Some women have regrets after having abortions.
These are real issues, but they shouldn't be dealt with by banning abortion. We should make sure abortion clinics can't weasel out of important safety regulations, that's clearly true. Every medical and surgical procedure has complications, so patients need to be adequately informed of possible risks -- this is true even of things like wisdom teeth extraction or appendectomies, but surely you wouldn't advocate banning those. Finally, some people wish they hadn't done it? That has never, in the history of our country, been an adequate reason for banning something. You might as well ban ugly ties and disco music.