I'm not. Never have.The stats clearly support your argument. I can't understand why he's disagreeing with this.
I'm not. Never have.The stats clearly support your argument. I can't understand why he's disagreeing with this.
Do you think that forcing women to carry babies that they can't afford to term, or seek dangerous illegal abortions instead, is conducive to family values?It doesn't bother me one bit where the awful moral compass of some random skank takes her in life. Like I said, I'm not interested in the debate. It's lose lose.
The drain we're circling is the erosion of basic family values, being replaced with consumerism and the pursuit of temporary self gratification.
Okay, so what gives the baby's body the right to use the mother's body against her will and at the risk of her health?Some of us see it as TWO bodies, not one.
I think women being encouraged and assisted in raising children is conducive to family values.Do you think that forcing women to carry babies that they can't afford to term, or seek dangerous illegal abortions instead, is condusive to family values?
Under certain circumstances, yes.is fair to kill fully formed humans?
Okay, so what gives the baby's body the right to use the mother's body against her will and at the risk of her health?
Risk of her life is statistically irrelevant. Stay on topic.
No, she didn't. See the car accident example a few pages back.The mother decided to give up her "free will" when she took the action of having sex.
You know, actions have consequences saying...
Regardless of whether or not they wanted those children?I think women being encouraged and assisted in raising children is conducive to family values.
Yep.Regardless of whether or not they wanted those children?
You are aware that pregnancy and childbirth are seriously fucking risky, possibly fatal procedures, that could ruin your ability to have children in the future if you later decide to have some?Adoption is always an option.
But if that's too much of a hassle, yea, I guess it's better to go get an abortion on your coffee break
Despite the evidence to the contrary?Yep.
Pregnancy intention is important for maternal and child health outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine the causal relation between pregnancy intention and maternal depression and parenting stress in Korean women who gave birth during 2008.
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Results
Results showed that the overall effect of an unintended pregnancy on maternal depression and parenting stress was statistically significant. An unintended pregnancy was associated with 20–22% greater odds of maternal depression, 0.28–0.39 greater depression score, and 0.85–1.16 greater parenting stress score. Relations between pregnancy intention and maternal depression, maternal depression score and parenting stress score were moderately explained by marital conflict and fathers’ participation in childcare.
Conclusions
Unintended pregnancy contributed to increased risks of maternal depression and parenting stress. Efforts to increase fathers’ participation in childcare and decrease marital conflict might be helpful to mitigate adverse impacts of unintended pregnancy on perinatal maternal mental health.
There's plenty of research out there on the subject, feel free to look around. You can follow the links from the article I linked, or use your favourite search engine.And the follow-up to that study one year later? 2 years later? 10 years later? 30 years later?