Study Shows Women are Plenty ‘Informed’ About What Abortion is Without an Ultrasound & Lecture

[uppityperson]

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Here's some science that will smack anti-abortion legislation in the face with facts: a new study shows that pre-abortion ultrasounds and waiting periods don't actually serve to "educate" or "inform" women seeking to terminate their pregnancies because, as it turns out, women who have abortions are confident in their decision; they know what a pregnancy is and what abortion does. More on this fascinating "women are not stupid idiots" story as it develops.

The study , conducted by researchers at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco and the University of Missouri, St. Louis and published in the June 2012 issue of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, analyzed data from over 5,000 women who received abortions in 2008. Researchers found that prior to receiving mandatory counseling, a whopping 87% of them were highly confident about their decision to abort. Those who weren't confident in their decision tended to fit one or more of the following criteria: they were black, didn't have a high school diploma, had a history of depression, or were carrying a fetus with an anomaly.

Imagine that. Women aren't moronic proto-people who just do whatever the imaginary evil abortion salesmen at Planned Parenthood tell them. Having an abortion isn't like being convinced by a charlatan to buy a Variable Universal Life policy with tons of internal fees.

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Because women who have abortions know what they're doing and are confident in their decisions before they have abortions, it stands to reason that lawmakers' insistance in enacting pre-abortion counseling and waiting periods aren't for women's benefit at all; laws that put barriers between women and abortion are designed to push a political agenda on women who have already made up their minds. And all this legislative carrying on about "protecting" women or "informing" them is — pardon my French — le bullshit.

[Ilsa]

1. Thank you for posting this article

and results of studies. It confirms my suspicions.

[Kath1]

2. Very well-said and oh so true.

Ultrasounds and waiting periods have absolutely nothing to do with "information" or "education." They are simply impediments to women who have already made up their minds.

[HockeyMom]

3. My Aunt already was a mother of 2,

and a grandmother. Oh, yeah, she was totally "clueless" about pregnancy? It was just the right choice for her, and her husband, at the time. I taked to her about it when she was in her 80s and she didn't regret her decision. Another myth that women will regret it. Oh, she didn't get breast cancer either.

[Lars39]

4. Doesn't everyone want a change of life baby?

We have quite a few of those in our family....uncles just a few months older than nephews.

I confess to be slightly amused at my MIL these days. I swear she thought I got breast cancer because of an abortion. Didn't happen, but facts aren't important in her life. Now a niece of hers, a pastor of impeachable character, no less, has gotten breast cancer in both breasts while in her 30s. Absolutely horrifying situation.
You can just see the cognitive dissonance in her dancing around when the subject arises. Who can she believe, her eyes or what her preacher tells her to believe?

[HockeyMom]

5. What they don't want to answer

If a woman gets breast cancer from an abortion (interrupting a pregnancy), why not from a natural miscarriage also? Oh, GOD did that, not the woman. Yeah, right.

[Lars39]

6. It's all God's Plan....

barf

[Control-Z]

7. They're not trying to "educate" or "inform".

They are trying to force, shame, harass.