A woman describes being coerced into abortion:
“My husband gave me an ultimatum: go and get an abortion or he would leave. As the sole parent’s pension was an absolute pittance in those days, I felt that I had no choice… Inside myself I was thinking, “Oh, please don’t let this happen – I want to keep this child; I think it will be a boy, a little brother for my daughter. I wish my husband would accept this child too and not make me have it aborted.” Each night when my husband came home from work, I begged him, “Please don’t make me have an abortion. Please don’t make me kill our child. Please, why can’t I just have this baby?”
Their marriage later broke up anyway.
Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) 25-26
Women being pressured to abort by their partners is very common. In fact, one study shows that 64% of women going in for an abortion had been coerced and were not making the choice completely by their own free will. This is not “choice” like the feminists say. Read more about coerced abortion here.
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I would show him the door and have the baby. There are always men out there, who don’t mind a woman already being pregnant and will be a much better understanding husband. I wouldn’t want a man around, who would make such demanding statements.
I’d tell women, that no love or man is worth killing your baby over. A good man, would never say such things to you.
I am so glad that you post these types of stories. It gives me a resource I can use to show that it is the men who usually pressure women to have abortions. This means a lot because pro-life men are ignored while pro-choice men are somehow heroes. It makes no sense.