Abortion: I feel terrible for women who have to have them....

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Today, I went to my wife's OB/GYN for the first ultrasound for my wife's pregnancy. The Z/E/F was tiny, but we could clearly see it's heart beating, along with the egg-sac. This visit was a time of some trepidation for us (we've got birth-defect indicators in the bloodline) but we were trying to get pregnant, so it was largely a very joyful visit.

The emotions my wife and I went through were terrifically strong. We wouldn't abort this baby-to-be unless there was something terribly wrong. On the way home, I got to thinking under what circumstances my wife would abort the Z/E/F, and how doing so would emotionally devastate her (on a sidenote, it would devastate me, too, but that's pretty irrelevant to the topic). This got me thinking about people who end up having abortions, and how their reactions and feelings are undoubtedly as strong as ours were, but how it could be a response of terror instead of joy as it was in our case. To me, that's a pretty powerful thought, the idea of somebody being as terrified as we were happy at such a visit. It was also scary to think that there are people out there who would restrict access to abortion, causing an already bad situation to become even more tragic.

I've always been pro-choice. I still am, 100%. But I wish (in my dream-world) that there wasn't so much of a demand for abortion services, because every pregnancy was a wanted pregnancy. The option needs to be there and be legal, I just wish humanity didn't need to use it so much.

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