Nearly 50% of all abortions are repeat abortions. These repeat abortions do not represent "satisfied customers." Instead, post-abortion women often seek replacement pregnancies to make up for the aborted child, but find themselves faced with the same social pressures which led to the first abortion. There is also evidence that some women undergo repeat abortions as an act of "self-punishment" or as attempt to "harden" themselves to negative feelings stemming from their first abortion..
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Actually, his statistics are correct, if you use a study from the CDC done in 1997.
And can we have a source for these assertions? Didn't think so...
Statistics are out of date. They're nearly a decade old.
"Nearly 50% of all abortions are repeat abortions."So what, bad luck can't strike the same couples twice?
"These repeat abortions do not represent "satisfied customers." Instead, post-abortion women often seek replacement pregnancies to make up for the aborted child, but find themselves faced with the same social pressures which led to the first abortion."
I don't know that I would say "often," but that can happen, alright.
"There is also evidence that some women undergo repeat abortions as an act of "self-punishment" or as attempt to "harden" themselves to negative feelings stemming from their first abortion.."
No, I think that's crap. Show me some articles supporting those assertions in a pertinent, peer-reviewed journal, then I'll believe that. Until then, I have to assume those assertions were pulled from your butt. Nobody has multiple abortions to "harden" themselves.
@Adrain: Perato's Law refers to the general tendancy of a disproporationate number to be responsible for most of a situation.
"There is also evidence that some women undergo repeat abortions as an act of "self-punishment" or as attempt to "harden" themselves to negative feelings stemming from their first abortion.."" government , how long will it take the average woman of average intelligence to doubt herself?
Actually, the classic Pareto principle is that 20% of the population is responsible for 80% of the effect.
CDC Report 54% [of women] were reported to have obtained an abortion for the first time, and 19% were reported to have had at least two previous abortions.
So, here is the acurate stat from the CDC - 19%. It took me a while to find this! I was worried that the 50% stat I quoted before seemed too high and thought I ought to do a little research. Yes, even I was fooled for a bit by the anti-abortion reteric. (Boy is my face red).
Some people who have an abortion don't learn from the experience, but refrain from using contraceptives again, and find themselves pregnant again. Maybe a lot of these didn't receive sex-ed in school.
"Replacement pregnancies"? "Social pressures"? "Self-punishment"? Do you think women are feeble creatures, not able to make their own decissions, who can't lead a fulfilling life without a baby?
Citation needed for that evidence, please.
Maybe 50 percent of all abortion are repeat abortions. That does not mean that every other woman is having a repeat abortion. A small percentage of women are having several abortions, while most women never have even one. I'd guess that at least some of those first women either had a lousy sexual education, won't use contraceptives, or has a husband who refuse to use contraceptives. It might also be very young women, who are abused by older relatives, and aren't allowed access to the pill.
Have you ever had an abortion, Bryon? How could you otherwise know so much about how "post-abortion" women feel?
What you abort is not a child, but a zygote, an embryo or a fetus.
What social pressures are you talking about? Most sane people have an abortion because they feel they won't be able to provide a child the life it deserves. Either they can't afford to, or they don't have the parental abilities required.
What evidence do you have for the self-punishment/hardening theory? If there are women like that, they might harden themselves to death. An abortion is still a risky procedure and, as any abortion, can be dangerous, even fatal.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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