Why It’s Become So Hard to Get an Abortion
Considering that nearly sixty per cent of women who have abortions have already given birth at least once, and so know something both visceral and emotional about pregnancy, fetal development, and childbirth
.. We have been aware that women tend to imagine something more like a miniature baby and this may be partly due to the images spread by antiabortion organisations. Since most abortions are carried out in the first trimester, often no more than a gestational sac is seen and many women find this reassuring.”
.. When someone applies for a marriage license, the state does not require her to read an analysis of divorce statistics first, or listen to a speculative recitation of the health risks of marriage. What is supposed to be protected, Sanger says, is not only the resolution a person comes to but the deliberative path she takes to get there.
.. about a third of these women did not have parents or legal guardians who were alive and could be located.
.. The judge is supposed to decide in the course of a hearing whether a petitioner is sufficiently mature and well informed to make her own decision. If the judge concludes that she’s not mature enough to have an abortion, that means that she is mature enough to have a child, or, in any case, will have one.