A Real Victim of Abortion

Have you ever been in a situation where you only have two options to choose from? If yes, how did it go? If no so good luck to you. I asked you this question because millions of women everyday face this situation, asking their selves whether to abort or not. Yes, I am talking about abortion. I wanna talk its causes, why did they abort the child. Then I’m going to show you who’s the real victims of it, is it the poor baby or the mother? Then lastly the outcome of it, what are the long-term damages the mother has to suffer?

First, let’s ask the question ourselves “what is abortion?”. Well according to Wikipedia “abortion is the ending of pregnancy by killing the fetus before it can survive outside the uterus”. According to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) around 56 million abortions are performed each year in the world. But why do women do this? The most common answers are: unwanted pregnancy, financial inability to support the baby, fear the baby would interfere with their future career and lastly is the unwillingness to become a mother.

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) stated that around 70% of women abort their child because of unwanted pregnancy. Most reasons are: they are too young to become a mother, relationship problems, and most of them are single mothers. Another 60% women state that they are financially unable to support their baby’s need due to, not having a good earning job, still relying on their parents and lastly she already has a child and cannot support both financially. While another 35% abort the baby, because of their fear of the baby causing their future career. And another 35% of women abort the baby due to the unwillingness to become a mother due to personal reasons

Premature birth has distinctive composes. The threatened abortion is vaginal bleeding that happens in the initial 20 weeks of pregnancy. The bleeding is some of the time accompanied by abdominal cramps. These manifestations show that an unsuccessful labor is possible. The inevitable abortion also called induced abortion. As you can see abortion are the result of one mistake and that is the poor judgment of what the outcome would be.

With all these death surrounds abortion it makes you wonder “who is the real victim of it?”. Now, most of you would surely say that the baby is the obvious victim of it but take a look at a different perspective. Take a look at the mother, according to a hospital study in 2015 the mother only aborted their child because of the fear of being judged. judge by society, not being able to provide for the baby, and the pressure from their partner to abort the child.

According to Lind Bird Frankie, a professional journalist, feminist, and pro-choice activist, said that most women she interviewed on how they feel while waiting at the abortion room said that “they felt tremendous amount of guilt and ask themselves on the what if’s of the situation “what if I let the child live?”, “would I able to support the needs of the baby?”, “what would my life be if I let this child live”. During one interview she asked a mother who has already aborted 3 babies in her life and asked her of what’s on her mind during the process. The guilt that engulfs you is tremendous that she nearly fainted.

According to one psychiatrist, the outcome of abortion will scar you for your entire life. Most mothers suffer from depression, anxiety, trauma, and worst, some of them end up using drugs to cope up with the guilt. Looking at a different perspective abortion is caused by being irresponsible of our actions. I consider this murder because you ended someone’s life. All of this can be avoided by being responsible for your action and advance family planning. Based on what I have researched the real victims of abortion will be the unborn child and you as a parent. I will now let you decide for yourself whether you will even consider this an option to unwanted pregnancy.