subject: The Hard Choice Of Entering The Abortion Clinic [print this page] Making a choice is difficult, especially one that involves a life. Thats why if you are pregnant and are struggling in your present lifestyle, entering an abortion clinic and asking someone to take your baby away is not as simple as it sounds. Thousands of American women choose abortion every day. However, these women didnt just wake up one morning and thought, Oh, I want to abort this baby. There are factors that lead a woman to choose this alternative solutionmoney, environment, even personal reasons.
Majority of Americans support abortion. Somehow, this lessens the distress of the women involved, knowing that other people understand the burden that they are experiencing. But sympathy from other people actually does little when someone has made up her mind to do abortion. This is even done in countries that consider it illegalfrom abortion clinics posing as little rooms in unnoticeable buildings. This shows that no matter what society they are in, when they are in dire need and with enough pressing reasons, women have to do it. As we already know, there are a lot of reasons. Some do it to better their present lives, others to make way for a better future.
Here are painted scenarios of a couple of likely reasons. Theres this teenage girl in Virginia. Shes a smart kid. In fact, she ranks number 1 in her class. She has a very promising career in front of her. And then, a few months before her graduation, she finds out that shes pregnant. She tells her boyfriend, but he abandons her. She wants to tell her parents, but she cant because she doesnt want to break their expectations and trust. What does she do now? She cant think of other options in her tormented brain other than the easiest of them allabortion. Good if she is as smart and brave as Ellen Pages character in the 2007 film Juno, where she can endure all the discrimination and humiliation of carrying a giant belly in the corridors of her high school. But she is no heroine. Shes scared. And to her young mind, teenage pregnancy can ruin her.
Most might think of that as an exaggeration, but there are actually worse cases. Okay, now this one is a more common scene. Lets not go too far. Think of a mother of five in Western Virginia. She works three jobs just to make ends meet because her husband is a no-good bum. With her youngest child still learning to walk, she finds out that shes pregnantagain. She can barely sustain her family. And with her current income, she cant afford another mouth to feed. She has to sacrifice one so that they can survive. She enters the community abortion clinic, and you know what happens next.
Whatever drives them to make this choice, it sure is heavy enough. Nobody wants to prevent a life. However, if that life will just bring suffering to the people around it, it will also suffer and will eventually ask why it is even spawned.
