vespergirl
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That''s a good point - I know that some women wouldn''t opt for abortion in the case of unplanned pregnancy. That was always an option that I would have considered, so if both of my types of BC had failed, I would have considered an abortion if I was not ready for a child at that point in my life. However, I was never confronted with having to make that choice.Date: 2/21/2009 8:21:37 PM
Author: steph72276
I never though of sex as being ''bad'', but the results could have been a bad thing for my future. I would have never considered abortion as an option, so if birth control failed, then all of my college/future plans would have been put on hold, so it was never worth the risk for me.
That said, I do know a couple of girls who decided to have abortions in their late teens/early 20s. I am still acquainted with them. None of them have ever regretted their decisions, and feel very relieved that the option was open to them. They all went on to graduate college and have succesful careers and marriages, and several have children now. I have never personally encountered an indivifual who was "haunted" by her choice to terminate her pregnancy, though I know the anti-choice movement is always talking about women who feel that way.
I do have one friend who decided to carry her pregnancy through to term after becoming unexpectedly pregnant in her early 20s buy a guy she had only been dating a few months. It turned out that she was pregnant with twins, and surprise, the guy split as she got further along in her pregnancy. The children are now around 7 years old, and she has never gotten on her feet. She has been supported alternately by her parents and the government, and her ex-boyfriend is barely around, and doesn''t pay child support. She married briefly to a guy that turned out to be abusive, then divorced. She never was able to hold down a full-time job with the demands of being a single parent with twins who never got to start a career. So, I guess that my opinion on this is skewed, because I have seen the example of one gril who carried her pregnancy to term who has had a hard and unhappy life, as opposed to my friends who had abortions, who went on to have successful careers and families.