In 1975, my sister just turned 16 and discovered she was pregnant

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no_hypocrisy (48,057 posts)

In 1975, my sister just turned 16 and discovered she was pregnant
with her 20 yo boyfriend. Never thought to use birth control.

I was leaving for college and she confided in me.

And I helped her get a LEGAL abortion.

There were several considerations in my decision. First, she was too young to be a mother emotionally and psychologically. She wasn't even mature enough to engage in sex. Next, our father would have been off-the-leash with irrational anger if he knew about the pregnancy. Dad was more than a strict parent. He was the guard to the jail. I had been the Family Scapegoat who allegedly and regularly brought woe to the Family and my sister was The Golden Child. This crisis would have switched our statuses in the family. And part of me would have welcomed it. But I bailed my sister out. Finally, I thought of the proposition if the baby had been carried to term. As previously mentioned, my sister would have failed as a mother. Our mother was more than ambivalent about raising us and I'm certain she wouldn't have assumed responsibility for my sister's baby. Or the baby would have been quietly born and adopted. No good options. So, I gave more than $200 I had saved up over years to my sister. And she had a safe abortion.

Epilogue: My sister continued to go through a raft of boyfriends, this time with BC. She married and discovered she couldn't conceive. My niece/nephew would be 49 next year. And having time to ruminate, yes, I'd do it again.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/113914503

You people are disgusting.

[FlippyDoo]

Or the baby would have been quietly born and adopted. No good options.

What's makes being "quietly born and adopted" not a good option? Because you couldn't say that you helped murder a baby? They really are an evil bunch.

[enslaved1]

Epilogue: My sister continued to go through a raft of boyfriends, this time with BC. She married and discovered she couldn't conceive.

Correlation does not automatically equal causation, but there are connections with abortions and infertility. 

[USA4ME]

no_hypocrisy

There were several considerations in my decision.

However, you completely skipped over the most important one.

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[jukin]

What's makes being "quietly born and adopted" not a good option? Because you couldn't say that you helped murder a baby? They really are an evil bunch.

The DUchebags DUmmys are not just misguided or wrong, these "people" are evil to the core. That statement proves it.

[SVPete]

Correlation does not automatically equal causation, but there are connections with abortions and infertility.

So the abortion killed a human being, shielded a statutory rapist, encouraged a decade or two of promiscuity, and very possibly caused infertility, either directly or due to promiscuity-related STD(s). That's probably a better set of outcomes to the cynically named no_hypocrisy than the risk of a Catholic or Evangelical Pro-Life couple adopting the child and raising him/her to be a moral person.

[Old n Grumpy]

So the abortion killed a human being, shielded a statutory rapist, encouraged a decade or two of promiscuity, and very possibly caused infertility, either directly or due to promiscuity-related STD(s). That's probably a better set of outcomes to the cynically named no_hypocrisy than the risk of a Catholic or Evangelical Pro-Life couple adopting the child and raising him/her to be a moral person.

You said it perfectly.

But to the ones who worship at the altar of abortion it’s a very necessary part of women’s health care.