The author of the pro-choice book Abortion: A Positive Decision quotes a 35-year-old abortion clinic supervisor:
“Women may say, oh, I don’t want to have a baby because I haven’t enough money, or my partner and I haven’t known one another very long. When I feel it’s good just to say, I don’t want a baby at the moment. I think that’s perfectly all right. There’s nothing stronger than that, when you think of what it takes to have a baby… If you’re forcing somebody to have a baby, making a lifetime decision against their will, then problems are going to turn up and they’re not going to be very happy about that. They’re probably going to be extremely depressed.”
Patricia Lunneborg Abortion: A Positive Decision (Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey, 1992) quoted in Tamara L Roleff. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, Greenhaven Press, 1997) 104
A woman can always put her baby up for adoption, and you have to ask the question – is a woman becoming depressed a good enough reason to kill a baby? Below is a picture of an aborted baby at nine weeks – 42% of all abortions happen after this point.
