It's called personal responsibility, and being responsible for your own decisions.
I was reading this post and its comments over at Emily's weblog called "After Abortion."
Mostly, this post is a response to the comments I read there.
I just really fail to understand how women feel that they were "coerced" into having an abortion. If women were considering an abortion, how is it coercion to provide that abortion? Why are abortion-providers (I hate the pro-life term "abortionists") required to give the very best available psychological counselling to women who are considering abortion? As far as I understood, the role of the counsellors at abortion clinics was, as required by various state laws, provide information to women regarding alternative methods for handling their pregnancies. It seems most abortion-providers do a pretty good job of doing this.
If a woman is truly "up in the air" about whether or not to engage in an abortion, shouldn't she attend some sort of psychological counselling that she pays for? Or see if her county health department can subsidize that counselling if she cannot afford it? Why on earth would she rely upon the abortion clinic to give her the in-depth counselling she may require?
That's like going to a plastic surgeon and saying, "I want to know all the psychological aspects of breast enhancement, and tell me what the alternatives are." I am fairly sure the plastic surgeon would tell the person to go see a licensed therapist for that information.
All I am saying is... if you elect to go in for surgery, and you are given the facts about the surgery beforehand... why on earth would you complain that you were coerced into the surgery? How is it coercion when you chose to go to the first appointment to find out about it, and not only that, chose to go to the second appointment as well to have the procedure done. Where's the coercion in that?
Mostly, this post is a response to the comments I read there.
I just really fail to understand how women feel that they were "coerced" into having an abortion. If women were considering an abortion, how is it coercion to provide that abortion? Why are abortion-providers (I hate the pro-life term "abortionists") required to give the very best available psychological counselling to women who are considering abortion? As far as I understood, the role of the counsellors at abortion clinics was, as required by various state laws, provide information to women regarding alternative methods for handling their pregnancies. It seems most abortion-providers do a pretty good job of doing this.
If a woman is truly "up in the air" about whether or not to engage in an abortion, shouldn't she attend some sort of psychological counselling that she pays for? Or see if her county health department can subsidize that counselling if she cannot afford it? Why on earth would she rely upon the abortion clinic to give her the in-depth counselling she may require?
That's like going to a plastic surgeon and saying, "I want to know all the psychological aspects of breast enhancement, and tell me what the alternatives are." I am fairly sure the plastic surgeon would tell the person to go see a licensed therapist for that information.
All I am saying is... if you elect to go in for surgery, and you are given the facts about the surgery beforehand... why on earth would you complain that you were coerced into the surgery? How is it coercion when you chose to go to the first appointment to find out about it, and not only that, chose to go to the second appointment as well to have the procedure done. Where's the coercion in that?
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