re: Why Are You Against Abortion?

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Do some girls use this as birth control. Yep and that sucks...but for the overwhelming majority they do not

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Looking at statistics, most abortions seem to be performed for reasons mostly related to personal convenience and concerns rather than for health concerns or situations of forced sex such as rape and incest.

You seem to imply that abortion is mostly about the health of the mother.

These statistics, though compiled by a pro-life organization, are The Guttmacher Institute's and Planned Parenthood's numbers. The pro-life organization takes issue with the numbers believing that they may be biased coming from pro-abortion organizations but use them nonetheless to be conservative in their statistical approach.

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Woman is concerned about how having a baby could change her life 16%
Woman can't afford baby now 21%
Woman has problems with relationship or wants to avoid single parenthood 12%
Woman is unready for responsibility 21%
Woman doesn't want others to know she has had sex or is pregnant 1%
Woman is not mature enough, or is too young to have a child 11%
Woman has all the children she wanted, or has all grown-up children 8%
Husband or partner wants woman to have an abortion 1%
Fetus has possible health problem 3%
Woman has health problem 3%
Woman's parents want her to have abortion <1%
Woman was victim of rape or incest 1%
Other 3%
(Totals do not add to 100% because of rounding.)

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Deformed baby less than 3%
Threat to life or health of mother maybe 3%
Rape and incest 1%
Mother has social problems 93%

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