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I can agree that I would not want a child growing in those environments,
but abortion is not the only answer. >

I'm pro-choice and don't believe abortion is the only answer. I would find
it very odd if pro-choice people didn't agree that adoption is an option.
However, I think that most women making the choice to abort are aware that
adoption is an option, and hearing about it as they walk into a clinic
isn't really going to change their minds.
I also believe in freedom of speech. People certainly have a right to express
their opinions. I just don't think that protesting outside an abortion clinic
is really changing anything. It may make the protesters feel good about
voicing their opinions, and make the women getting abortions feel worse than
they probably already feel, but does it actually prevent abortions? I don't
have statistics but I highly doubt it.

Wendy

Lynda

The numbers and consent interviews show that what the protests have done is to cause women to "shop" for a clinic thus waiting until later in a pregnancy to have an abortion.  also, these interviews have shown that in some cases these women may have choosen another alternative is they had gotten counseling and been shown other choices earlier on.
 
For all the "experts" that think these clinics only advise people to get abortions and then do the abortions, ya got another think coming!  An abortion is not the first line of advise AND, quite frequently they recommend counseling so that the women can come to terms with continueing the pregnancy.  Women who were confronted by screaming, self-appointed moral judges were more likely to refuse all counseling and dig in their heels and have the abortions.
 
Yes, some women went ahead with the pregnancy when confronted but those who were later interviewed had lots of issues with hating their child because they felt it was forced on them.
 
Lynda
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<
I can agree that I would not want a child growing in those environments,
but abortion is not the only answer. >

I'm pro-choice and don't believe abortion is the only answer. I would find
it very odd if pro-choice people didn't agree that adoption is an option.
However, I think that most women making the choice to abort are aware that
adoption is an option, and hearing about it as they walk into a clinic
isn't really going to change their minds.

I also believe in freedom of speech. People certainly have a right to express
their opinions. I just don't think that protesting outside an abortion clinic
is really changing anything. It may make the protesters feel good about
voicing their opinions, and make the women getting abortions feel worse than
they probably already feel, but does it actually prevent abortions? I don't
have statistics but I highly doubt it.

Wendy


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Tracy Oldfield

I'm glad to hear this, though I must say again that it was not my
experience when I discovered my pregnancy, 11 years ago. My
choice was between living a kind of life I had almost lived (not quite
sunk to the same depths of poverty) living a more go-getting life
with my child in someone else's care (not for me, this one) giving
my child up for adoption (which I would not have been able to carry
through, come the time, and I know this, deeply, I did want this
baby) or terminating the pregnancy. I chose the last option. I'm
very glad I had the choice.

Tracy

> The numbers and consent interviews show that what the protests have
> done is to cause women to "shop" for a clinic thus waiting until later
> in a pregnancy to have an abortion. also, these interviews have shown
> that in some cases these women may have choosen another alternative is
> they had gotten counseling and been shown other choices earlier on.
>
> For all the "experts" that think these clinics only advise people to
> get abortions and then do the abortions, ya got another think coming!
> An abortion is not the first line of advise AND, quite frequently they
> recommend counseling so that the women can come to terms with
> continueing the pregnancy. Women who were confronted by screaming,
> self-appointed moral judges were more likely to refuse all counseling
> and dig in their heels and have the abortions.
>
> Yes, some women went ahead with the pregnancy when confronted but
> those who were later interviewed had lots of issues with hating their
> child because they felt it was forced on them.
>
> Lynda