I normally don't talk about big issues and cannot say that I will write this in a way that will make sense, but this has been weighing on my mind for awhile so I'm going to try here.....
Abortion is obviously a sticky topic, one that no one really wants to discuss. You have to be careful who you talk to about abortion because if they have the opposite view then you probably aren't going to get anywhere on the topic. I don't care whether you're pro-life or pro-choice or somewhere in between, I think we need to face the real issue here. The real issue is not that thousands of babies are murdered everyday, or whether or not it is murder at all. These are issues yes and very major issues, but they aren't the real issue. The real issue is why people are "choosing" to have abortions. People don't go into this thinking, "today I would like to make it so I have to get an abortion". From what I've seen, everyone seems to agree that abortion is horrible and just not a good experience for someone to go through, but what does that say about the other option if people are more willing to have an abortion than go through with the pregnancy? Has having a baby really become such a terrible thing?
I think the real issue is the point where having a baby became a more terrible experience than having an abortion. Surgically altering ourselves is chosen more than having a baby and women still say it was not really a choice to do that. It was a necessity. When did abortions become the better option? We need to focus on making this world a place where the only option some women see is to get an abortion. We need to focus on helping the women not degrading them for choosing abortion.
I truly believe we are focusing on the wrong questions in this whole debate on abortion. I truly believe that we need to focus more on the reasons that abortion is happening not on whether or not it should be illegal or not. The reasons that having a baby is a more terrible experience than having an abortion should definitely be looked at, because no women should only see one option as an option. No women should only hear that people will support them if they chose to have an abortion but not if they chose to have the baby.
Why is having a baby seen as being more harmful than having an abortion?
